Comments on: New Adobe Magazine available

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:25:46 +0000

John – I just popped online after thinking “I haven’t gotten a recent issue of Adobe Magazine” – a to my great dismay, I discover the magazine is no longer available.
Any insight into why it was killed? As a PDF evangelist, it was a wonderful tool for demonstrating the potential of the digital magazine format as well as an inspiration for new ways to use the tools.
I find it sad that Adobe has chosen to discontinue the creation of the magazine.

By: jknef

jknef — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:27:31 +0000

I need to make 11×17 brochures using text and digital high resolution professional photos on a regular basis. Sorry to ask a dumb question here..what software would you recommend? I have windows Vista and a mac pro one version before leopard. Thanks

By: greg h

greg h — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:39:28 +0000

Hi John,
Thank you for the heads up that the new issue was available for download.
Just curious, any idea why the download is a zip? A zip with just one file. And the file is a PDF.
[I'm guessing (as I have no inside scoop) that the purpose is to make the file download rather than open inside one's browser. On my machine at least the ZIP file wrapper away automatically. --J.]
We are Adobe, so I would think we would be promoting the PDF format. ZIP’ing it seems odd. (And I would not zip a PDF in a similar case on any web site that I am webmaster on.)
Following are the files sizes:
ZIP 11,047,703
PDF 12,474,150
Difference: 1,426,447
So the ZIP is 11.5% smaller. But the whole unzipping process makes it about 300% more of a hassle.
In a case like this, I would just rather direct access to the PDF.
Thanks again,
g