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The DOJ extended a ‘second request’ calling for details of how the takeover by Adobe would affect the areas of web authoring/design and vector graphics illustration. While not putting any definitive blocks in the way of the takeover, the move will delay the completion of the deal until at least 30 days from the time the companies comply with the request.
If the takeover goes ahead it will give Adobe an almost unassailable lead in the provision of graphic arts software, combining its industry leading graphics programs such as PhotoShop and Illustrator with Macromedia’s Flash and Dreamweaver.
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If you think the battle for the digital print crown is decided between HP, Fuji Xerox and Kodak, think again. In a bolshie statement of intent at a products and partnerships meeting in Rome, Canon reiterated its plan to be the biggest player in digital print. The company rolled out its Professional Print division to European customers from across Europe, reminding the industry that last year it spent 43.9 per cent of its AUD $1.4 billion R&D budget on print related projects. As part of the campaign to raise its profile within the industry Canon is taking an exhibition stand at IPEX that will be twice the size of its one at drupa.
Expect a lot more Canon activity in the local market in the near future.
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It’s a good read, take it from Clancy who looks forward to the Heidelberg News magazine landing in his mailbox. It’s an opinion obviously shared by many and the re-launched version of the 75-year-old publication won a silver medal at Europe’s Best of Corporate Publishing award.
But don’t take anyone else word for it, get your own free copy by contacting Heidelberg.News@heidelberg.com
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Freeware fonts are either a cheap way of getting your message across or a royal pain in the butt when it comes to graphic arts outputting. But they’re not going to go away anytime soon according to GASAA's latest 10 second web survey. The survey found that 41per cent of respondents (sic) use royalty freeware fonts for design and production purposes for at least 10 per cent of the work. Now, what that actually means is hard to say, but it gets even tougher.
Six per cent of those responding said that 10 – 30% of their creative jobs were done with downloadable, royalty free fonts; 24 per cent said between 30 – 50 per cent of the fonts used were freeware, while six per cent said 50 – 75 per cent of their work was done using freeware fonts. A further six per cent said they almost exclusively used fonts available from the internet without cost.
It was at this point that Clancy, head ablaze with statistics, gave it away, cursing all statisticians and unable to decide if free fonts were a significant factor in the industry or not.
But check it out for yourself on www.gasaa.asn.au
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My goodness, but you’re a skeptical and suspicious lot. Nelson Ferrari, large format guru of HP, tells Clancy that following the item concerning his offer of a free large format printer to any school or college that has a graphic arts course on the syllabus Clancy 2nd item , many readers wanted to know what the catch was? Yea of little faith. Nelson assures it’s all fair dinkum and that so far the response is most gratifying.
So if you’re a concerned Mum or Dad, get in touch with the man Nelson.Ferrari@HP.com and tell him Clancy sent you.
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And finally… too good to pass up and it has politically-liberated Astrid all over it.
They asked me to run a marathon.
I said, "Piss off!"
They said "Come on, it's for spastics and blind kids."
Then I thought……"Sod it, I could win this.”
