Fun With Desktop Publishing

2022-11-16T00:31:56Z

Ok, that was interesting.

After determining that the Adobe Creative Suite is still annoyingly expensive even when you get it for a not-for-profit via TechSoup, Ken (who had gone to check out the details for me, being more familiar with TechSoup than I am) pointed out that there is something called Affinity Publisher which is supposedly pretty good at this sort of thing.

I went to poke at it and immediately realized that this software was from the same company that made my old friend, PagePlus, which I used *many* years ago to lay out the Chicago in 2000 trading cards. Their entire software suite, including replacements for InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator was on sale for $99. Well, what the heck. I've got $99 for a perpetual license.

So now I have an alternative set of software which is *much* cheaper than the Adobe suite. Further, I was able to export the entire Windycon program book from this year in a format that is readable by Affinity Publisher which meant that I have now imported the entire set of styles into the new software.

Well, heck.

That'll improve life for *somebody*.

(But since I'm most likely doing Windycon publications next year, it's pretty much a push for me. :) )

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This, That, and a Trip to First Place

2017-08-13T03:34:13Z

In the top of the news, the Cardinals have won eight games in a row and find themselves in a virtual tie for first place in the NL Central with the Cubs.

In other news, no one on the North Side of Chicagoland is speaking to me. :)

I have backed up the critical files on the studio computer preparatory to reloading the OS. After doing that, I discovered that the Windows 10 Creators Update has a new feature that will reload the entire OS, boot out all of the installed non-Windows applications, and leave your files intact.

I am, nevertheless, happy to have spent the time backing up the files.

But think about it! An OS that is so wonderfully stable that it now comes with its own built-in option to reload itself to clean up the trash that it's left lying around while leaving your files intact.

It's sort of the neutron bomb of operating system functions.

Windows 10 -- what an OS!

Ah, and we had the first serious softball practice for fall ball today. It went very well. Yay!

And Katie got her hair cut much shorter today.

That's the news. Time for bed!

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Fun With Desktop Publishing

This, That, and a Trip to First Place