Save FreeHand! They call themselves FREE FreeHand, but let’s face it, when you are up against such factors as ex Macromedia and the mighty Adobe, a miraculous “save” (I guess they would settle for an effective “import”) comes to mind…
http://www.freefreehand.org/
Yes, you read it correctly. I guess there are a lot of Spaniards on their list, for last I heard, Spain was one place that would not give up their favorite vector drawing app that easily.
How do you plan on profiting from your online content? Here is an interesting development:
Wikipedia founder ties with HP to add magazine printing platform to Wikia site
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed a new tie-up between user-generated information site Wikia and HP’s MagCloud service that will allow users to create and print magazines.
“We are doing all kinds of things like that to think about ways to sustain this idea of participatory culture. We have no idea if this will be popular,” Wales told news agency Reuters.
Markzware launched, at PRINT 09 in September, a new content search engine technology called PageZephyr. This beta Macintosh application will index desktop publishing file formats such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and soon other document types, like PDF, Microsoft Publisher and even “the rage” of it’s day, PageMaker. Here we see some of the excitement generated from the show-floor and one simple exclusive press release, which Mary Gay (Public Relations) pushed up court… and re-tweets via Twitter! Watch Patrick Marchese, co-founder and CEO of Markzware, demonstrate PageZephyr…
Now, I am quite sure there is more to this than meets the eyes.. or is this a sign of the Internet times we live and work in?
said @scost1 on Twitter, apparently to a student- is this the ‘new world order of Graphic Design‘?
Source: http://twitter.com/barbaranixon/statuses/4788759496
Just a little WordPress or Adobe InDesign chatter on Twitter! Don’t even get me started on Google Wave. Sounds like this school and it’s students could use content conversion and text extraction provided by PageZephyr.com…
“Content is free. Formats are not” is the article’s title from cnet. Now, this strays away from purely printing, although content in the digital printing world and certainly the publishing sector faces a similar fate:
Markzware most recently gave a sneak preview of our new technology of PageZephyr at Print 09 in Chicago last month.
While at the show Stephen Beals, who has spent more than 30 years in the industry as a pre-press manager and has written hundreds of articles for several print and computer publications over the years stopped by the Markzware booth to check it out and has written a post about it sharing his thoughts….
