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T7-PAGE HOW-TO GUIDE p.54 Macworld acworld.com | August 2005 SPECIAL REPORT: APPLE GOES TO INTEL What It Means for the Mac How It Will Affect You Why There’s No Need to Panic We Answer All Your Questions ©») SPOTLIGHT SECRETS Supercharge Tiger’s New Search Tool “It leaves Windows XP in the dust.” ~ Walter Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal “It’s the most elegant, useful and powerful operating system I've ever used in three decades of computer ownership. It runs circles around Wages ~ Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press “Spotlight isn't just a fast Find command. It’s an enhancement that’s so deep, convenient and powerful, it threatens to reduce the 20-year-old Mac/Windows system of nested folders to sn o HTEIEVORCE, - David Pogue, The New York Times “Want to see what the future of personal computing looks like? Don't wait for Microsoft to show you; go out and get yourself a copy of Apple's latest operating system release, OS X Tiger. It’s that good” pee ~ Michael Gartenberg, Computerworld “Not only is Spotlight super fast, but it looks through absolutely everything: email messages, contacts, the information attached to digital photos, even a page you scanned in or a map you downloaded from the web.” ENS op OES Oe — Chris Taylor, Time “| remember writing an article about Lotus 1-2-3 back when the product was released during the 80s... /t may have been nearly two decades since | wrote that column, but it took Spotlight less than2 ds to find it.” SS ee Oe ~Larry Magid, CBSnews.com us Mac OS X Tiger @ www.zCover.com Fashionable Silicone Cases zCover cases are crafted from food-grade, durable, washable, high quality silicone rubber. The colors of zCover cases neither fade nor peel off, as they are blended prior to molding. zCover protects your cherished iPod from dust, dirt and liquids. 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To view the contents of the CD, go to the following URL (broad- band Internet recommended): http://cd,macworld.com/2005/ 08/cpu-gasket 4 MACWORLD August 2005 Mi August 2005 www.macworld.com REVIEWS 22 34 36_ 42 50 $8 Golive CS2 Adobe Creative Suite 2 $869} Photoshop CS2 OGG} InDesign CS2 $68G5 Illustrator C52 ‘Top Products _ _ More Reviews _ Game Room PETER COHEN sophisticated X-Plane 8 flight simu- lator is the best way to experience landing a jet- liner that has only one functioning engine in a storm, We also have reviews of Hello Kitty: Bub- blegum Girlfriends and Jammin’ Racer, the latest release news, and a bit about Crimson Room— Toshimitsu Takagi’s great online game. Mac Gems DAN FRAKES Create your own comic strips, take control of OS X's Trash, add a pop-up dictionary without upgrading to Tiger, make quick calculations, place a trash-can icon on the desktop, easily access multiple iDisks, and tweak Tiger's appearance, Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premiun 22 REVIEWED: ADOBE CS2 —_ A \wwrw.macworld.com COVER STORY | _| SECRETS The Big Picture Taking the picture is just the beginning: You also have to prepare it, print it, and preserve it. Here are our tips for editing photos in iPhoto 5, a guide to online photo-printing services, and the best backup strategies for protecting your files. 72 54 THE BIG PICTURE waww.macworld.com | 82 4 WORKING MAC Energize Your Slides TOM NEGRINO Try these three tricks for making dynamic Keynote presentations. PLAYLIST Better Audio Burning CHRISTOPHER BREEN iTunes is great for managing your music library, but it’s not the best tool for creating audio CDs. Know _ how and \ when to use disc-t burning alternatives. — "DIGITAL PHOTO See Your True Colors DERRICK STORY Ever slaved over a photo on screen only to have it look totally different when it prints? It may be time to calibrate your monitor, Here's how. CREATE Solve InDesign Type Trouble DAVID BLATNER AND ANNE-MARIE CONCEPCION Adobe InDesign has lots of tools for working with text, but their functions aren't always obvious. We have answers to the type questions we hear most. MOBILE MAC Macs Abroad JASON COOK Headed overseas? With a bit of preparation, get- ting online over there doesn’t have to be any trick- _iert than doing so ir $0 inD Des Moin Moines. GEEK FACTOR Command Spotlight KIRK McELHEARN You know it's there, So why can’t Spotlight find it? To shine the light into your system's darkest Tecesses, you have to fire up Terminal, where you'll find a bunch of souped-up Spotlight commands. HELP DESK Mac OS X Hints ROB GRIFFITHS Create subgroups in Address Book, search smarter in Mail, get creative with tables in Apple's Pages, slim down iPhoto's window, and more. Mac 911 CHRISTOPHER BREEN Keep your iPhoto library tidy, trim audio clips in iMovie HD, send HTML e-mail messages that look like real Web pages, stop e-mail spoofers, and more, ‘BACK PAGE | 128 Hot Stuff Check out our favorite new stuff. ‘August 2005 MACWORLD 5 small Dog Elecironics www.smalldog.com @ Apple Specialist 1673 Main St., Waitsfield, VT 05673 1-800-511-MACS PORTRAIT By PETER BELAN FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK [E\ANAS@)NISIN tm Intel Inside, Mac Outside So the rumors are true. After 11 years, Apple will soon ditch the PowerPC architecture and begin building Macs based on Intel pro- cessors. And the first thing we have to do is disentangle emotional reactions from the cold, hard technical facts. Axis of Evil? Over the years, Apple and its onetime chip partners, Motorola and IBM, have invested considerable time and money in disparaging both Intel’s processors and its aggressive marketing efforts. (Remember the ads with the guy in the burning lab suit?) For a long time, Intel has been lumped together with Microsoft as the Mac community’s axis of evil: Wintel. To the Mac faithful, that very word stood for everything that was wrong with PCs and right with Macs, 1 was one of those faithful. Back in 1993, 1 went down to Intel for a job interview (one of my jour- nalism teachers had taken a job there). But the whole time I was there, | felt like a sleeper agent. I kept waiting for the Intel CPU Detector to activate, locate the PowerBook 160 hidden in my backpack, and alert the guards who would frog-march me out of the building. Showing remarkable wisdom for a 23-year-old, I turned down the job at Intel and instead went to work at MacUser magazine. The first big story to come along after I started working there was Apple’s transition to PowerPC processors. The Pentium and the PowerPC, CISC and RISC, processor-emulation technology and the fear of buying soon-to-be- obsolete equipment: that was 1994 in a nutshell. So to have Intel and Apple working fagerher to drive us through another processor transition is undoubtedly a bit creepy to many of us—though perhaps not as creepy as it would have seemed Il years ago. Since then, with AMD hard on its heels, Intel has started to look a bit less invin- cible. Windows, too, has taken its lumps—thanks to some serious security problems and Microsoft's ongoing inability to ship Longhorn, the next- generation version of the OS. Meanwhile, Apple has kissed and made up with former foe IBM, adopted a new operating system based on Unix, and even started releasing hardware and software that work with Windows. Swapping Chips ake away the emotional baggage, and Apple has simply chosen a new chip vendor. In announcing the deal, Steve Jobs pointed out two key facts that any- one who has followed the Mac’s past year or two ‘wenemacwarld.com already knows all too well: the 3GHz Power Mac Jobs promised two years ago still doesn’t exist, and we still don't have G5-based PowerBooks. Jobs further explained thar Intel's product roadmap—the chips it’s going to be developing over the next few years—is far better for Apple than IBM’. Is that a compliment to Intel’s chip-designing prowess, or is ita shot at IBM's inability to improve the G5 and make it more appropriate for laptop use? Yes on both counts, I’d say. T don’t think this transition will be nearly as tumultuous as moving from the 680X0 processor family to the PowerPC, or from OS 9 to OS X, Via Rosetta, most apps made for the PowerPC will run on Intel-based systems. And creating Intel-native versions of Mac apps will be much easier than mak- ing 680X0 apps work on PowerPC machines or making OS 9 apps run in OS X. The very structure of OS X, which forces developers to write code ata very high level (and which, it should be noted, was designed—as NextStep and OpenStep—to work on multiple processor architectures), should make recompiling programs for Intel-based Macs rela- tively straightforward. Clearing Up the Confusion In my mind, this transition’s biggest drawback isn’t technical or even political. It’s the confusion and mis- information that are going to accompany the change. We've tried to lay out everything we know about the situation in a special report that fills this month’s Mac Beut section (page 14). And we'll continue to stay on top of this transition, both here in Macworld’s print edition and online at Macworld.com. In the meantime, spread the word: Using Intel chips doesn’t mean that Apple will become a PC cloner. It doesn’t mean that all new Macs will be running Windows instead of OS X, It doesn't mean that current Macs will be obsolete next year. The sky is not falling, But, I'll admit, it does seem to be a slightly differ- ent shade of blue. Got a comment on the Apple-intel deal or on anything else related to the Mac? Write to me at jason_sneli@macworld.com or, better yet, post your ‘thoughts in our forums at macworld.comforums, ‘August 2005 MACWORLD. 7 Time Management | ATED OFFICE/HOME Contact Management /| SOHO Business Cards Create stunning business cards in minutes. Includes thousands of designs, artwork and fonts. $29.99 SOHO Labels & Envelopes The fastest way to design and print professional labels, envelopes and letterhead on your Mac. $29.99 SOHO Organizer—coming soon Manage your contacts and related appointments, to-dos, and notes. The successor to Personal Organizer. SOHO Notes—coming soon The first and only networkable note manager. 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RISK NOTHING. Chit Chat JOSEPH BURNS es] As an avid Macworld reader, I’ve often noticed that your ratings for Apple prod- ucts tend to skew upward. In the case of your review of IM software (May 2005), I feel that bias gave America Online's Instant Messenger ($6!) a bad name. You praise Apple iChat’s (¢###!) audio alerts but fail to mention that status changes in AIM can also trigger all sorts of actions, from playing sounds to running a script. AIM also does a better job with sharing files. For example, I can put all my photos in one place and let anyone on my buddy list download them as they please—much easier than sending the file to everyone individually. While iChat does have great audio and video capabilities, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who needs only text messaging. ALEX WEISMAN. Es} T've used all the IM clients you reviewed (except for Defaultware’s Proteus) and think that Adam Iser’s AdiumX ($969) deserves more credit than you gave it. No, you can’t have AV chats with it, but there isn't much else it can't do. I'd rather use a program with everything a Mac user could want than one with extra bells and whistles. MICKEY STEVENS ies} In your review of Microsoft MSN Mes- senger (§#1), its cons include “annoying ads.” If you purchase Microsoft Office 2004, you can turn off the promotional pane, Only the free version displays ads. TAYLOR BARCROFT Es} Are you daft? How can you compare instant messaging systems without including Skype (www.skype.com)? It’s 12 MACWORLD: August 2005 the only IM system that also allows you to talk from a Mac to another Mac, a PC, or any regular phone. Skype is the future—not iChat AV or any other pro- prietary system. On the Road Again RICHARD G. BRIBIESCAS S In response to the excellent tip about back- ing up your slides (“Hit the Road, Mac,” May 2005), I'd like to suggest simply cre- ating a backup PDF copy of your Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint presen- tation (either within the respective applica~ tion or through the Print dialog box). This is especially useful if you're forced to use a Windows machine. Nearly everyone has a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which has slide-show capabilities. If you don’t mind losing your fancy transitions and ani- mations, making a PDF copy can provide peace of mind. JUSTIN WONDGA {| In “Hit the Road, Mae,” you recom- mended using Reverse DNS Lookup to find the current SMTP server when con- necting from the road, Trouble is, if you want to send e-mail messages from a hotel, a coffee shop, or a wireless hot- spot, it can be hard to connect to SMTP servers; almost all of them bar relaying. (If you try to send mail via a third-party Internet service, your SMTP server will say that you’re out of bounds and politely tell you to go fish.) May I offer a couple of solutions? First, talk to your IT department or your ISP to see whether it has an authenticated SMTP server. If it does, configure your e-mail client accordingly and then send messages from just about anywhere. Second, use the secure, authenticated SMTP servers at Gmail or Yahoo. if] FEEDBACK We Get the Message If you have any doubt that instant messaging (IM) has gone thoroughly mainstream, just check out the response to our review of IM programs (May 2005). The mail was high-volume in both quantity and tone. Every- one, it seems, has an opinion—and it’s usually a strong one—about which IM client is the best and why the others are too awful to even contem- plate. Here's a sample of the vituperation, as well as reactions to some of our other recent stories. Codec Confusion ALLEMIEUX (es Jonathan Seff’s “Play Anything” (Playlist, May 2005) came two months too late for me. That’s how long I’ve been trying to open some AVI files that used an old Intel Indeo 2.1 codec. I tried converting them using a slew of applications on both a PC and a Mac; I posted questions on major video-discussion boards—all to no avail. Turns out the video files were created on a PC running Windows 3.1. I haven't tried the VLC Media Player yet, but I'm planning to give it a go. Thanks for the good article, How to Download an OS JOSE DONIGA (es I recently bought a new iPod mini. I fol- lowed the instructions, loaded the software, and then connected the iPod mini to the computer. Nothing happened. So I looked up the system requirements. Turns out that while iTunes and the iPod software are both current, my operating system isn’t; the iPod requires Mac OS X 10.3.4, but I have only 10.3. T really wanted to make this work, so I decided to update to OS X 10.3.9. The problem: it’s a 117MB down- load and I have dial-up service. After three hours, only 50MB had downloaded, Not wanting to tie up our telephone for that long; I disconnected, But what do I do now? Return the iPod? Apple should include the Mac OS update on the CD that comes with the iPod. So Long, Paper BAKARI CHAVANU es) Tagree with Jason Snell when he says that the Internet hasn’t replaced the printed word (From the Editor's Desk, May 2005). ewnwmaciworld.com But I happened to read that column in digital form, using Zinio Reader, which came installed on my Mac mini. I find that it’s a nicely interactive way to read the articles, complete with links to the sites mentioned. Now I’m considering switching to the digital format, which would allow me to keep each issue on my computer and organize PDF files of indi- vidual pages for future reference. Apple versus ASP TYLER REGAS (| In response to reader Tom Dalton’s letter “Mac Off the Web?” (Feedback, May 2005), in which he blames Apple for OS X’s incompatibility with a “growing num- ber of Web pages [that] use ASP (Active Server Pages) apps”—his real problem is with ActiveX controls, a PC-only tech- nology. ASP—much like PHP or Apple’s own Web Objects—creates pages on-the- fly when they are requested. The client doesn’t have to process these pages. ActiveX controls, on the other hand, are small applets that run scripts on the client, and are Windows-only. Who Burns Your Music? BOB WEAVER & In “Napster’s Bad Math” (Mac Beat, May 2005), Jonathan Seff writes that anything you get from iTunes. not really true. You are simply licensing the song—you are bound by the terms of the license agreement, which limits what you can do with that song. Who- ever owns the copyrights owns the song Col In our review of IM software (May 2005), we incorrectly reported the price of an iChat screen name. If you sign up for a free 60-day Mac trial period, you can keep your screen name at the end of it. We also misreported iChat’s one-way video-chat capabilities; you can set up a one-way video chat if you're the only person with a Web cam. Also, you can add ICQ users to your iChat buddy list, and Yahoo Messenger does allow two-way video chats. In More Reviews (May 2005), we printed an incorrect mouse rating for Evoluent’s Vertical- Mouse 2. The correct rating is #03. RECTIONS itself and the recording. | think this is an important distinction to make when discussing online music services. None of the services, to my knowledge, actu- ally transfers ownership of the copyrights to customers. Change Is Good J. REVIERE es] The May issue just arrived, and I like the changes you've made. I like the nuts- and-bolts how-tos. 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MACWORLD 13 Apple Moving to Intel Steve Jobs's startling announcement that Apple will begin a transition away from PowerPC chips to Intel proces- sors has left Mac fans’ heads spinning—and not just because a former “enemy” of the Mac is now counted among ion are unclear or flat-out unknown—after all, Apple has said that it won't be shipping any Intel-based Macs until next year. To help you sort out the situation, here are answers to all your questions about the Apple-intel announcement. its allies. Many details about the transi BY JASON SNELL w ically, did Ag announce’ On June 6, in an address to Mac developers, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would begin a transition from the PowerPC chips that cur- rently power Mac systems to proces sors built by Intel. Jobs said that at least some Intel-based Macs would be on the market by June 2006, that most new Macs would be Intel- based by June 2007, and that the last PowerPC-based Mac will have Steve Jobs announces Apple's switch to Intel processors. rolled off the assembly line by the end of 2007 did Apple is now? Developers of Mac software—the people Jobs was addr ssing—need time to ensure that their programs will work on Intel-based Macs. Yow that developers have the necessary tools, chances are good that numerous programs will be ready before Intel-based Macs actu- ally arriv Why did Apple do this? Jobs said that the company made this decision because it “want{s] to be making the best computer for our customers, looking forward.” He cited his 2003 promise to ship a 3GHz G5 by mid-2004—a promise that is still unfulfilled. He mentioned that Apple has also fa G5-based PowerBook. Clearly, Apple has not been impressed with the pace of processor development by IBM, which builds the G5 chip. And as Jobs said, Apple believes that iled to deliver a winw.macworld.com when it looks to future processor devel- opment for chips destined for Apple tems, Intel will progress much faster than IBM. Does this mean that Apple has to write a new version of Mac OS X for Intel? Yes, but it’s not as big a deal might think. OS X began as NextStep and OpenStep, operating systems that originated on Motorola-based chips and later also ran on Intel chips, So OS X has, from the very beginning, been an operating system capable of running on different chips. And Steve Jobs admitted that Apple has secretly created an Intel version of every version of OS X, just in case it needed to make the switch some- day, That day is here, and the bulk of the work has already been done, Is this going to be like the OS 9— to-OS X transition all over again? Actually, it’s quite different, For most developers already using Apple’s Xcode tools, modifying programs to run on Intel processors will be much easier than making that software run natively in OS X was. (For developers using Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior as their development environment, however, it might be just as hard or even harder.) From a user perspective, an Intel-based Mac system will look just like a Power- PC-based system. OS X will look and act the same; it’s only the underlying processor that will be different. But it is a transition, and there will be quirks and bumps, new stuff to learn, and a lot of uncertainty. So in that way, it may remind you of the OS 9-to-OS X transition, or the move from 680X0 pro- cessors to PowerPC chips back in the mid-1990s. Does this affect the software | already own? What will happen to my software if I buy an Intel- based system? Apple has announced a new technology, called Rosetta, that will run PowerPC Mac programs on Intel-based Macs. However, according to Apple’s own technical documentation, Rosetta does not support Classic apps, nor does it support apps that require the G+ or G5 processors. ‘wrwmacworld.com Rosetta works by translating code meant to run on a PowerPC chip into code that is compatible with Intel pro- cessors. If you recall running 680X0 code (say, Microsoft Word 5.1) on a Power Mac in the mid-1990s, then you know what this means: programs run slower when they’re not running on their native processors. Most common programs will probably be quite usable; some processor-intensive applications such as games and 3-D renderers proba- bly won't be. Over the next year, many software developers will likely update their applications so they'll run properly using Rosetta. Rosetta doesn’t work th Classic does, however. Cl an entirely separate operating system (OS 9) on the PowerPC chip in your current Mac. Rosetta runs native OS X applications but translates the PowerPC chip instructions into Intel-compatible ones. By the time the first Intel-based Macs appear, many of the programs you us may have already been updated to new versions that also support the Intel architecture. You'll be able to tell which processor type a program supports by selecting the program in the Finder and choosing Get Info. In the More Info s tion, you'll see an Architecture line that Intel, PowerPC, or both, (There's an Open Using Rosetta option that might be useful in certain oddball situa- tions, much as the Open Using Classic option is today.) Will | have to buy new versions of my software to run on an Intel- based Mac? As with the PowerPC and OS X transi- tions, there’s no single answer. One com- pany might offer an Intel-compatible version as a free upgrade; another might make ita major relea Because of Apple’s new Universal Binary approach, a developer can deliver one program that contains both Intel and PowerPC versions of its software. You won’t have both Intel apps and PowerPC apps floating around, making it easy to click on the wrong one (and making it impossible to drag and drop software from an Intel Mac to a Power- PC one). And future Mae software will likely be sold simply as Mac software, Conversation With Intel A few days after Apple made its big announcement, Macworld.com news editor Jim Dalrymple drove to Intel's Santa Clara, Califor- nia, headquarters to talk | n about Intel's new relation- ship with Apple, its com- mitment to research and development, and ‘the promise of future innovations. Check out macworld,com/0622 for the details. not as Intel Mac software or PowerPC Mac software. You'll install it and double-click on the program, and then your computer will use the right code for its processor. Will Intel-based Macs get nasty viruses and spyware, as Intel- based PCs do? Essentially, no. The viruses and spyware you hear about on Windows are just that—attacks on the Windows operating system, which happens to run on Intel (and AMD) processors. If a Mac were to be infested by viruses and spyware, those infestations would happen no matter what processor was running that par- ticular Mac. ‘This is not to say that a Mac couldn't get viruses and spyware. Bur that’s true today, too. The Mac is nearly free from viruses and spyware because it’s more secure than Windows and because it’s a much less common system than Win- dows. Moving to Intel processors doesn’t change any of that. Does this mean that my Mac is obsolete? ‘Think of it this way—like any animal, Mae systems have natural life span: When they're young, they’re pretty frisky and can run just about any pro- gram you throw at them—even the most cutting-edge, processor-intensive stuff. As they reach middle age, they seem slower. While they’re good at running the same programs they did when they were new, they can no longer seriously play out on the cutting edge. Eventu- ally, a Mac becomes old, at which point it can still be a solid contributor for a long time to come; but just like old dogs, old Macs don’t tend to learn many new tricks. continues ‘August 2005 MACWORLD 15 MAC BEAT __ 6 Or to be more direct, when you buy a Mae, it starts to become obso- lete almost immediately. Technology advances, computers get faster—one y, there will be a version of OS X that won't run on your Mac. That was true three years ago, and it’s true Your current Mac, and any Mac you buy in the next year, will still pass through all the stages of life. ‘The Intel transition will be a very specific milestone along that path. Depending on how the transition s out and, more importantly, you use your Mac for, the Intel transition might make your Mac obsolete more quickly, or it might keep it relevant for a little while longer than would be normal. But all computers are born to be obsolete. Should | hold off on buying a new Mac until the Intel-based Macs arrive? Ir depends on what your needs are and which Mac(s) you currently have. Over the next year, Apple will come out with numerous improvements on existing PowerPC-based Mac models. And keep in mind, according to Apple, the PowerPC won't be completely eliminated from the company’s prod- uct line until late 2007. If you've got an aging Mac system, do you want to wait until 2007 to get a new one? If you bought a new Mac today, you could be pretty confident that it would serve you well for several years and probably wouldn't become obsolete any faster than it would normally. Then again, if you're comfortable with the Mac system(s) you've got now and don’t feel the need to buy Mac for a while, waiting until Apple crosses the next barrier might be a good idea. How will the Intel machines measure up to the PowerPC Macs in performance? MACWORLD August 2005 Jobs greets Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini. We simply don’t know yet. But keep in mind that Apple won't ship any Intel-based Macs until 2006, so the Intel chips that are available in today’s PCs are not necessarily the chip mod els, speeds, or even families that will make th Apple’s system Will this lead to cheaper Macs? It’s possible, depending on what parts Apple buys from Intel and what they cost, But Apple will continue to make Macs, and sales of Mac hardware help fund Apple's development of OS X. Don’t expect Apple to start selling computers at rock-bottom prices like cheap PC cloners, Will any PC be able to run OS X for Intel? Apple says no. Our guess is that some enterprising hacker may be able to get it to work, but we'd expect that getting OS X to run on PC hardware would be a laborious process, and the result might not be a particularly stable system. You certainly won't be able to buy OS X, stick the installation DVD into a Dell PC, and have it just work. Apple intends for OS X to run only on Apple hardware. Will my Intel-based Mac he able to run Windows? It scems likely, although Apple won't support it. Someone will probably figure out a way to install Windows ona Mac system so that you can choose to boot into either OS X or Windows. Or a future version of Virtual PC may let you run PC applications at full speed, on a win- dow within your Mac (or on a sec- ond monitor). There are some intriguing possibilities here for Mac users who must use Windows appli- cations some of the time. But if all Macs will one day be able to run Windows, won't application developers stop creating Mac versions of their programs? I's possible, but it’s not very likely Mac users are Mac users because they want to run software in the Mac interface. The large software companies that publish programs on the Ma nd that, and so do the small Mae developers who are making cool OS X applications. ‘The midrange developers who have a flagging commitment to the Mac might be the ones to worry about, but to be honest, the OS X tr dy shaken most of those developers out of the Mac market, ‘The future of the Mac games mar- ket is somewhat more of an open question, as Macworld’s Game Room columnist, Peter Cohen, discovered when he talked to Mac game devel- at > under: opers (you can read his story macworld.com/0620). Whatever happened to the megahertz myth? It’s still true—you can’t compare different chip types solely based on megahertz (or gigahertz). Even Intel has had to deal with this, since some of its chips’ speed-per-megahertz ratings can't be measured against some of its other chips’ ratings. Apple clearly feels that Intel’s chips have the best growth path, and that’s why it has made this major shift in technology. On the positive side, with Apple using Intel chips, PC users will no longer be able to use clock-speed comparisons against Mac us And with the processors being equal, we will be able to make a much more direct comparison between the speeds of OS X and Windows XP. Apple used to bash Intel's chips. What changed? Intel’s chips have evolved. Intel is a huge company that has devoted imassive resources to improving its chip technology. It has also been spurred on by competition from another PC chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). 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But most of the dev opers Macworld talked to soon after this news had hit seemed to be taking it in stride. The Road Ahead Switching to Intel processors isn’t as easy as plugging in new chips. Almost all the software that now runs on the PowerPC will have to be altered to work on Apple’s new Intel-based sy tems. As Steve Jobs pointed out, some apps—widgets, scripts, and programs based on Java—should work on Intel Macs without any changes. But others will require tweaks (ranging from minor to major) and a recompiling of code. What kinds of tweaks? Take, for example, what developers call the “byte order issue.” Intel and Power- PC chips store numbers differently. Intel in an Apple box."—Bruce Chizen, Adobe CEO president, founder, and CEO According to ProVue Development founder Jim Rea, “without special code, numbers saved on a disk using the [PowerPC] processor can’t be read by an Intel processor, and vice versa.” Rea, the primary author of ProVue's Panorama, points out that this isn’t a problem for apps (such as some utili- ties) that don’t save any data to disk. Ir’ also not a problem for text editors or outliners that deal only with text. And if'a program has already been ported to Windows, the developers have already solved the problem. That leaves number-writing, Mac-only apps that need to be updated—a process that Rea says could take a few weeks to a few months. The Easy Way ‘To illustrate how easy the porting process can be, Steve Jobs called on ‘Theo Gray, a cofounder of Wolfram Research (makers of technic puting app Mathematica). Converting Mathematica (a relatively complex application) to work on an Intel Mac required changes to just 20 lines of I-com- What They’re Saying “We are absolutely committed to taking our applications so that they run natively on “From where |'m sitting, it looks like Apple is doing what's right for its own business, and making sure that Apple customers have the best platform to run on.”—Rich Siegel, Bare Bones Software “We don't foresee any challenges on our part, so long as Apple makes this as transparent as possible."—Peggy Chang, Intuit senior product manager of QuickBooks for the Mac “The Mac Business Unit is already hard at work on the next versions of Office for Mac and Virtual PC for Mac. An important part of that work includes collaboration with Apple engineers to create Univer- sal Binaries of future versions of Office so it will run natively on Apple's future hardware.”—Roz Ho, Microsoft Mac Business Unit general manager “We're optimistic that [Apple has] thought about how to keep things as smooth as possible for develop- ers, The staged approach seems reasonable."—Adam Fingerman, Roxio director of product management “We've been writing Mac software since System 7. We no longer fear change."—Cabel Sasser, Panic cofounder 18 MACWORLD August 2005 Phend. Compile. source code out of millions—and a total of about two hours. “It’s pretty good when the biggest problem from your port is to figure out what to do with the rest of your weekend,” Gray told fellow develop- ers during the keynote. Other developers may not h so easy. Programs that directly address the PowerPC processor, including those that take advantage of the AltiVec vector-pros it capabilities of the G4 and Gs will need to be more dramaticall modified. Elgato Systems’ for example, has a large amount of d AltiVec code. “Porting the AltiVec code to Intel’s SSE [the Intel counterpart to AltiVec] can be equivalent to a full rewrite,” Dr. Marku s founder and chief technology officer. Nevertheless, Fest stresses that all Elgato products will run natively on PowerPC Macs and Macs with Intel chips, and that he expects a “relatively painless transition.” For developers who don’t want to rework their applications for Intel Macs, Apple has another new technol- ogy, dubbed Rosetta. Described by Jobs as “a dynamic binary translator,” Rosetta will let PowerPC apps run transparently on Intel systems. 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DiskStudio and PodLock are trademarks of Micromat, Inc. MAC BEAT 20 MACWORLD Take MYOB, for example: Rosetta technology will allow its Account- Edge finance software to run on Intel while the company mulls its long-term development plans. “Short-term, [Apple's move to Intel chips] is not an issue, as it looks like Rosetta is going to give us som thing to move forward with,” says product manager Tom Nash. Past Transitions Indeed, many developers feel well pre- pared for the work ahead, especially compared with previous transitions. Jobs announced the availability of a development platform—including an Intel-equipped Power Mac running the special OS X 10.4 for Intel—at the conference. “To have an operating sys- tem, [a] compiler, and hardware to develop and test with at this stage of the process is very impr .” says Fetch Soft- works founder (and Fetch FT?P software author) Jim Matthews. By comparison, when the Mac platform moved from the 680X0 processors to the Power Matthews says, many developers got the new hardware at the same time as consumers. Ir doesn’t seem that the move to Inrel’s architecture will involve as A PRIMER ON INTEL’S PROCESSORS Behind the CPUs Apple's decision to move to Intel for its processor needs brings up many ques- tions. But many people are simply wondering why: What do Intel's x86 CPUs offer that IBM's » PowerPC chips don't? Steve Jobs mentioned low power con- sumption, or "performance per watt,” as the chief difference. Compared with IBM's chips, Intel's use less energy and run cooler-— handy characteristics for a CPU that’s wedged within the confines of a laptop. The Wintel world is cluttered with far more products than the Mac universe, and Intel offers a bewilderingly large array of CPUs that vary in cache size, speed, and fea- tures, So here's a rundown on some of Intel's bigger-name processors (but keep in mind that you can expect the chip maker to have some newer processors available by the time Apple starts using its chips). Pentium 4 Designed for: Desktops and desktop- replacement laptops The best known of Intel's processors, the P4 was designed to achieve high clock speeds, but it generally does less per clock cycle than competing CPUs, The latest P4s run as fast as 3.8GHz with 1MB or 2MB of cache and an 800MHz frontside bus. They're also 64-bit, courtesy of Intel's EM64T—a version of the x86-64 64-bit instructions developed by AMD for its Intel-compatible Athlon 64 Aegust 2005 CPUs, EM64T P4s perform both 32-bit and 64-bit instructions with equal facility, Some P4 models also feature Hyper Threading, which creates two virtual CPUs to improve performance when running simulta- neous tasks—for instance, applying a Photo- shop filter and browsing the Web. Pentium D Designed for: Desktops and perfor- mance laptops The Pentium D evolved out of the P4 and, like the G5 and most Intel CPUs, is manufac- tured using a state-of-the-art 90-nanometer process. The D stands for “Dual-Core,” which means that the CPU has two execution cores (the CPU's heart, which actually processes the instructions) on the same chip. It's essen- tially the same concept as a dual-processor G5, except that the CPUs are found on a single piece of silicon. With two cores, Pen- tium D CPUs are especially adept at multi- tasking, and all three models (2.8GHz, 3.0GHz, and 3.2GHz) feature the EM64T instruction set, 1MB of cache per core, and an 800MHz frontside bus. Pentium 4 Extreme Edition Designed for: Gaming machines and performance desktops The newest version of the P4 EE is actually a Pentium D with Hyper-Threading enabled, meaning that two physical processor cores are split via Hyper-Threading for a total of much work as the transition from the classic Mac OS to OS X. “That was a more significant effort,” says Peggy Chang, Intuit’s senior product manager for QuickBooks for the Mae, “I’m not hearing our developers talk about anything close to that. This is more about recompil- ing and debugging.” And that should translate to a smooth transition for Mac users. As Fetch Softworks’ Matthews puts it, “For customers, moving to Intel hardware should be easier than mov- ing to a new OS."—PHILIP MICHAELS four virtual CPUs. This flagship EE shouldn't be confused with older models, which are single-core P4s with Hyper-Threading and either a 2MB cache (3.73GH2, 1,066MHz frontside bus, 90-nanometer model) or dual 512KB L2 and 2MB L3 caches (3.2GHz or 3.46GHz, 800MHz or 1,066MHz frontside bus, 130-nanometer models). Pentium M Designed for: Laptops Some think that the 32-bit Pentium M is what Apple was really after from Intel in the short term. The Pentium M isn’t based on the P4 core; it’s a separate animal that does a lot more work per clack cycle. Available in clock speeds from 1.5GHz to 2.13GH2, it easily out- performs the G4 found in Apple's fastest note- books and offers wonderfully parsimonious power consumption. Pentium M notebooks regularly last more than five hours on a single battery charge—something iBook and Power- Book users currently can only dream of. Celeron Designed for: Budget desktops and budget laptops Celerons are the lower-priced, 32-bit-only cousins of the Pentium; they generally suffer from a slower frontside bus, less cache, or some other performance-inhibiting charac- teristic, They cost only a little less than low- end Pentium models, but might be ideal for a budget "Mactntel."—on L. JAcoBi worw.macworld.com A PERSPECTIVE ON THE INTEL TRANSITION Why Today Isn’t Like 1994 I started my life as a full-time Mac editor in 1994, just as the 680X0-to- PowerPC transition was beginning. This new PowerPC-to-Intel transi- tion reminds me of the Mac’ previ- ous chip transition—but there are also many differen ‘The PowerPC transition was spurred by the flagging performance of Motorola's 680X0 chip line, as well as the improved speed of Intel’s then- new Pentium chip. Jumping from a 68040-based Quadra to a PowerPC 601-based Power Mac resulted in a noticeable speed boost. The forth- coming transition is more about future speed improvements; as a result, the jump from latter-day PowerPC sys- tems to first-generation Intel Macs probably won't offer such dramatic speed increase When the PowerPC transition hap- best of class ‘iPod accessories. i eSATA host controllers and storage solutions pened, Apple actually sold upgrades for Quadras so that they could run as Power Macs. Some of them came in the form of complete logic-board upgrades. Although Apple has remained mum on the matter of upgrades, it’ highly unlikely that there will be any Apple-sponsored upgrades that will rurn PowerPC Macs into Intel models. And it’s unclear whether clever upgrade-card companies will be able to find any way for users of Power Mac Gs to install an Intel processor in their systems. Unlike in 1994, today’s Mac users are much more knowledgeable about concepts such as native applications and even emulation mode, thanks to the refresher course we got during the move from OS 9 to OS X. But the 1994 rules still apply: emulated applications (running via Rosetta, in pa) G4 upgrades learn more at www.sonnettech.com/solutions woew.macworld.com this case) will be slower than Intel- native versions. As I reviewed my 1994-era Mac mag- azine collection, it became clear to me that every transi tion is a time of confusion and fear, as well as of great opportunity. It was interesting to read these words, which appeared in the May 1994 issue of MacUser: “With the introduction of the [Power Mac], Apple . . . is relying on developers to write native software fand] relying on us to purchase Power Macs and then to buy upgraded soft- ware. If [that happens}, then the Power Macs will launch Apple toward the 21st century.” Well, here we are in the opening years of the 21st century. 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All of this is wrapped in an interface that will be pleasantly familiar to Photoshop veter- lly daunting to new users. ans—and occasiona Photo Finish Photoshop C$2’s photography-related enhancements run the gamut from basic to bleeding edge. The new version adds two tools that debuted in Photoshop Elements 3 but now work on 16-bit images: the Red Eye tool does a fine job of fixing that common snapshot flaw, and the new Spot Healing Brush tool simplifies retouching by elimi- nating the need to first specify a source point—just select the tool and click or paint on the flaw. Adobe has also updated the ven- erable Lens Blur, Lens Flare, and Liquefy filters to work in 16-bit mode, which is crit- ical to artists working with 3-D graphics and to photographers who shoot in a raw format, Speaking of raw image files, Photoshop CS2 includes Camera Raw 3, a major update to the software that most photographers use to prepare and optimize such images. Cam- era Raw 3 still works as a plug-in—a design approach that allows Adobe to release fre- quent updates that support new cameras. One update has already appeared; at press time, the current version was 3.1. Camera Raw 3 features several improve- ments, including new tools for straightening and cropping images. A new Curve tab lets you finely adjust image contrast by position- ing control points (see “Raw Refined”). It works much like the Curves dialog box in Photoshop, and because raw images contain a great deal of highlight data, the Curve fea- ture is particularly useful for bringing out 22 MACWORLD August 2005 ay oie Ti, cars BO Uw, IAT, |: Elieacai Mie ieei tow WSs IB) tne a Save oa Raw Refined Camera Raw 3 adds a Curve tab that gives you fine control over contrast. 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A set of perspective adjustments makes it easy to fix the problem of converging verticals, which can cause a building to appear to tilt backward (see “Straighten Up”). Also new in Photo- shop’s filter arsenal are noise-reduction, sharpening, and blurring filters. The Redu Noise filter cleans up noisy image: those shot at high ISO speeds. Ie gives you far more control than the Dust & Scratches fil- ter—it lets you reduce noise on individual red, green, or blue channels, and adjust edge details to avoid excessive softening—while still providing natural-looking results. The new Smart Sharpen filter goes well yond the Unsharp Mask filter. You ean, for example, control the amount of sharpening applied to highlights and shadows. Of the three new blur filters in Photoshop CS2, the most interesting is Surface Blur, which creates a diffused, soft-focus look. Used sparingly, it’s surprisingly: effective at removing noise and film grain. Used with abandon, it creates a dreamy mood that you'll be seeing in a lot of wedding albums. Some of Photoshop's new filters let you save filter settings for later—a valuable addi- tion I'd like to see in more filters, Broaden Your Range No camera can match the human eye's ability to take in a scene containing a wide range of www.macworld.com 22 Photoshop | 24 InDesign | 28 Illustrator | 30 GoLive | 34 Top Products | 36 More Reviews REVIEWS YOU CAN TRUST Macworld rates only final shipping products, not prototypes. What we review is what you can actually buy. dark and bright areas. Photoshop users employ several techniques to deal with this reality—from tweaking shadow and highlight details, to processing a raw file using mul- tiple tonal settings and then combining the resulting files. Photoshop CS? adds another option; the HDR Merge command, HDR is short for high dynamic range, FDR photography involves using a tripod-mounted camera to shoot several photos of a scene, each ata dif- ferent exposure. Run those shots through HDR Merge, and Photoshop blends them in an attempt to capture the full tonal range of the original scene. The resulting file is a 32- bit image that you can convert to an 8+ or 16-bit image for printing and displaying. During that conversion process, you have a few options for shochorning the broad dynamic range of a 32-bit image into the narrower range of an 8- or 16-bit image. But this is a tricky process, and it’s easy to end up with unnatural-looking photos. Reality Distortion One of Photoshop CS2's flashiest enhance- ments is a feature you may not use often, but it will save hours of effort when you do. The new Vanishing Point tool lets you draw per- spective grids over the flat planes in an image, and then paint, retouch, and otherwise mod- ify them. As you paint or move and clone elements within a plane, Photoshop scales them to match the plane’s perspective (see “Pixels in Perspective”). Activate the healing options in the Vanishing Point dialog box, and Photoshop adjusts the color, | texture, and lighting of elements | as you move them, The Vanishing Point tool is fun to use, and it's spectacular for architectural applications (moving windows or applying a texture to a build- ing), package design (putting text or images on a box’s sides), and general retouching. Another new reality-distortion tool, Image Warp, lets you warp images by dragging Bézier control points. Image Warp is ideal for package design and illustration. Working Faster and Smarter ‘The rest of Photoshop CS2’s enhancements may not show up on your imag os comenn H Bren Seen oe Straighten Up With the Lens Correction filter, you can correct common lens flaws and other problems. Here, the vertical perspective has been corrected to fix the com- ‘mon converging-verticals problem. The customizable grid aids in alignment tasks. weww.macworld.com Pixels in Perspective The new Vanishing Point tool lets you retouch and edit within perspective planes. Here, | gave the light house a second-floor window and a fifth window on its side, | also pasted some text above the front doors. will show up on your wristwatch: several new features allow you to get more done in less time. For starters, you can designate a layer or group of layers as a smart object and then transform it nondestructively: move, resize, or duplicate it; change its blend mode or opacity; or apply layer styles. Click on a but- ton in the revamped Layers palette, and the smart object opens for editing in a new win- dow. Make changes and choose Save, and the object is updated. Smart objects are ideal for creating but- tons for Web pages or DVD menus. You can even use smart objects to combine multiple copies of a raw image to increase dynamic range. This feature is an updated version of a technique Photoshop users have employed for a while now, and it’s ideal for times when. the stiff constraints of HDR photography make that technique impractical. Unfortunately, you can’t apply filters to smart objects—a capability that would greatly streamline many imaging tasks. Other time-savers in Photoshop CS2 include the ability to customize Photo- shop's menus: you can remove commands you don't use and even color-code commands so they stand out. Photoshop also provides smart alignment guides that appear when you drag one layer near another. Video producers will love Photoshop’s new ability to out- continues ‘August 2005 MACWORLD 23 REVIEWS put the current document to a video moni- tor via FireWire: you can preview how your graphic will look on TV without having to save it and import it into a video-editing program. Adobe hasn’t forgotten about hard copy, either. It has fine-tuned Photo- shop CS2’s Print With Preview dialog box, to clarify some of the confounding color- management options. Adobe's new Bridge application adds depth and flexibility to Photoshop and rein- forces its integration with the other applica- tions in Creative Suite 2 (see “The View from the Bridge,” page 26). Room to Grow—and Learn For all of the improvements in Photoshop CS2, there's room for more, Some of Photoshop's features and most of its filters still don’t work on 16-bit images. Photoshop CS2 provides broader 16-bit support than its predecessor did, and I hope this trend continues—especially now that filmmakers and photographers are begin- ning to work with 32-bit images. Next on my wish list is the ability to apply filters nondestructively, as you can adjustment layers. Being able to sharpen images, blur them, and apply other filters without affecting actual pixels would greatly simplify many photographers’ workflows. Smart objects are a step in the right direction, but they don’t go quite far enough. And finally, Adobe's documentation is inadequate, especially given Photoshop's complexity and capabilities. Adobe could take a lesson from Apple, which supplies superb documentation with its professional- level applications. Macworld’s Buying Advice Photoshop C$2 is a tour de force. It’s packed with innovations that will make your images better—and get you home faster, Bridge is far superior to the File Browser, smart objects and all the produc- tivity enhancements are great, the new Lens Correction and Vanishing Point fea- tures are extremely helpful, and the video preview is glorious, This is the most signif- icant Photoshop upgrade in quite a while, and if you're serious about digital imaging, you need it. 5 RATING: $684) PROS: Broad spectrum of improvements; increased 16:bit support; innovative HOR Merge and Vanishing Point features; excellent productivity and automation enhancements, CONS: Stil can't apply filters nondestructively; inad- equate documentation, PRICE: $599; upgrade, $149; C52 suite, $899 COMPANY: Adobe Systems, wwwadobe.com ‘A Macworld contributing editor since 1984, JIM HEID is the author of The Macintosh iLife ‘05 (Peachoit Press/Avondale ‘Media, 2005) and its companion Web site, www macilfe.com, 24 MACWORLD August 2005 Ciretavve 10 spine Anchored Object Anchored Postion A Relate To Y Rea Ta Reference fom EP trenton by Vonser: Fano 1 keep watin Top/ Bottom Column Boundaries ‘Ciirevent Manual Positioning TS a RS a (Grad) Leash Your Objects InDesign CS2 can anchor objects to specific points in text, so they follow the text as it reflows. InDesign CS2 Text-Handling Enhancements, Object Styles, and More Make This the Best Layout Program Available BY GALEN GRUMAN InDesign was already the clear leader in typographic sophistication, object handling, multilingual publishing, and transparency effects for text and graphics. And with InDe- sign CS2, Adobe has significantly bolstered text- and graphics-handling functions. Many interface enhancements—including unique and powerful features that will entice Quark- XPress and PageMaker users—increase the program’ flexibility, extend its many core strengths, and (for the most part) make this version easier to use than previous versions. Text Handling Many of the new features provide capabilities long available in Microsoft Word (but not in most publishing programs), such as anchored text frames, automatic text correction, and bulleted lists. With InDesign CS2, layout artists and copy editors alike have the tools they need, reducing the need to switch between Word and InDesign and thus mini- mizing errors. Layout artists will love the new anchored- object feature, which links an object (text frame, graphics frame, or line) to a specific place in text. The anchored object moves as the text moves—great for pull-quotes, cross- reference boxes, callouts, and figures. Using a complicated interface that could stand some simplification, you can control the position of an anchored object (such as at the top of the page and to the left of the text containing the link). If you import Word files that have linked text frames, InDesign now detects and retains them, though not necessarily in their original position. It also lets you modify them. When you import text from Word or Rich ‘Text Format (RTF) files, InDesign CS2 now gives you real control over how styles are imported, so you can map Word styles to InDesign styles and designate whether the InDesign or Word style is applied when both documents use the same style names. Even better, you can save and reuse these import settings. And when you import styles from other InDesign documents, you can now select which styles to import, rather than importing all of them. InDesign CS2 supports footnotes, which you can import from Word or create in InDe- sign, and it lets you control their formatting and placement, InDesign CS? also supports automated numbered and bulleted lists, with a feature adopted from PageMaker. This fea- ture is adequate but hardly sophisticated. For example, you can’t automatically align list numbers to the decimal point. Also, when you import automatic numbered or bulleted lists from Word or RTF files, InDesign doesn’t see them as automated lists, so their numbering becomes fixed as regular text. One nice but easily overlooked new feature is the ability to have InDesign CS? align text away from or toward a spine, a handy way to worw.macworld.com automatically align text such as pull-quotes, based on whether they are on a left- or right- side page. Without this feature, you'd need to align elememts on left pages separately from those on right pages, and then watch out for elements that had to be realigned as they moved between pages. It’s a subtle enhance- ment, but it shows the kind of fine-tuning that Adobe has brought to this latest version. InDesign’s spelling checker has been improved in several ways: it now flags suspect words with underline squiggles, a la Words it offers autocorrection (to fix misspellings as you type); and it provides the option of case- sensitive spell-checking, Rounding out the text-handling improvements are the ability to drag and drop text; the ability to apply styles to text and other objects with a Quick Apply palette (so you don't have to switch between the keyboard and the mouse when editing); the ability to set baseline grids for individual text frames; and the ability to associate mul- tiple dictionaries with a file. Layout Tasks Not all of InDesign’ significant new features involve text. For example, you can now drag layout objects onto your desktop, creating a separate XML snippet file that you can then drag into another InDesign layout, e-n someone, or drop onto another user’ folder. And InDesign still has traditional libraries that let you store multiple clements for reuse among multiple documents. InDesign CS2 can also rerun transforma tions (such as rotations), so you can apply the same change or series of changes to multiple objects, just as you can in Illustrator. While you can’t save transformations as macros, the ability to rerun them is a great tim Creative Suite users will also like InDesign C$2's support for non- vector layers; it lets you turn them on or off for imported Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat docu- ments, QuarkXPress 6.5 (4689; March 2005) Eph eras Mc ond ye added a similar feature tua tea tae tye nt oc one le through a plug-in, but it works only with Photoshop files. Other changes extend existing InDe- sign features. For example, you can now create object styles, which let you apply and change the for~ matting of lines and shapes consistently. So common graphic elements, such as sidebar boxes, can now easily be updated through- out a document as the design chang Ic’s no surprise that Adobe continues to integrate capabilities across its flagship products, given its decision two years ago to present them as a unified suite, InDesign CS2 shows that integration strongly: the file format for color swatches is now consistent across all C$2 applications, color-management settings are now syn- chronized, and Acrobat job preferences can now be created and shared. Helping Converts Several enhancements mimic long-standing QuarkXPress features; most of them aid InDesign’s usability and flexibility. 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SAD oa wa Ga Tee a ek = Consistent Objects The new object: style capability makes it easy 0 apply con- sistent formatting—and update it globally—to objects such as a sidebar frame. example, you can now convert object shapes via a new menu instead of having to edit them manually. Also, InDesign now lets you select a new style for text when you delete an existing applied style; before, such text retained its formatting but no longer had a style associated with it. And InDesign can now finally save just selected color swatches (instead of all swatches) for import into other InDesign documents; Quark- XPress has long let you select which swatches are transferred, Similarly, you can now choose which styles to import from other InDesign documents. PageMaker users will also see several familiar features, including the PageMaker toolbar that provides iconic buttons for quick access to controls, such as the Save button. The functions of Adobe's Page- Maker Plug-in Pack (#98; June 2004), avail- able for InDesign CS, are now part of InDesign CS2. These include the Position tool (a renamed version of PageMaker’s Crop tool), automated bulleted and num- bered lists, and a data-merge feature, which is useful for highly structured documents such as mailing labels or form letters. But the data-merge feature is not so well suited to catalogs, because each variable item has to fit within a consistently sized text frame—a mailing label easily does this, but a product blurb in a catalog may not. A Few Quirks As amazing as InDesign CS? is, it has some problems that Adobe should address in future versions. For example, many people will miss the No Paragraph Style option in the list of paragraph styles, for removing styles from text, a standard practice in QuarkXPress workflows, Some designers— and Adobe, obviously—don’t like this capa- bility because they object to having styleless paragraphs. InDesign can still remove styles, but now you have to use a hard-to-find menu option for this basic ta continues ‘August 2005 MACWORLD 25 REVIEWS Saeco Despite better integration with other Adobe programs, InDesign cannot apply a Photoshop file’s blending modes to back- grounds in InDesign. For example, if you create an object with a drop shadow in Photoshop and you set the drop shadow to Multiply, InDesign uses the Normal blend- ing mode—it can't detect the Multiply set- ting from Photoshop. ‘The new ability to display fonts in menus using the actual fonts is well intentioned, but if you own many fonts, the menus get so large that you can’t see much of your layout. Among the enhancements added to InDesign CS2 is the ability to save files to the previous version. But you can easily overlook this feature: you have to choose InDesign Interchange in the Export dialog box, rather than using the Save As dialog box as you do in most other programs. (InDe- sign CS users must download an update to be able to open these Interchange files.) InDesign continues to limit its Web- export support to Adobe's own GoLive C32, a barrier to people who use the much more popular Macromedia Dreamweaver MX (#04); January 2004). And I was unpleasantly surprised to see that InDesign still cannot replace two consecutive hyphens with an em dash as you type; the new Autocorrect feature won't accept the em dash (and other special characters such as ®) as a legitimate character. Another fea- ture not thoroughly implemented is text wrap. InDesign document pages do not rec- ognize text wrap set on master pages, so their text doesn’t wrap around master-page items as it should. Macworld’s Buying Advice There’s no question that InDesign CS2 is the best layout program available. This upgrade enhances the program's traditional typographic and layout strengths by mak- ing text handling more powerful, and it adds dozens of improvements for a more well-rounded interface. RATING: $968) PROS: Rich typographic and layout capabilities; handy object styles; strong text and graphics import- ing and formatting controls; style and color-swatch sharing; anchored-object feature; consistent color cal- ibration; autocortection and in-line spelling checker. CONS: Automatic numbered lists have limited for- matting options; inflexible data merge; text-wrap feature doesn’t work for master-page items; auto- correction doesn’t support special characters; can’t detect Photoshop blending modes; Web export is lim- ited to GoLive CS2. PRICE: $699; upgrade, $169; upgrade from Page- Maker, $349; C52 suite, $899 COMPANY: Adobe Systems, www adobe cor Former Macworld editor and veteran technology writer GALEN GRUMAN has written 19 books on desktop publish- ing, including Adobe InDesign C52 Bible and QuarkXPress 6 Bible (Wiley Publishing; 2005 and 2003, respectively). 26 MACWORLD August 2005 The View from the Bridge Adobe's new Bridge—a stand-alone application aptly named for its inte- Qrative and management functions—has replaced = | = ~~ Photoshop CS's dedicated ~~ File Browser. It provides ~~ file-management and automation features for the entire Creative Suite 2, Asin the File Browser, Bridge's interface provides separate, resizable panes that display metadata, pre- views, and your Mac's direc- tory structure, You can use Bridge to preview just about | any type of raster or vector file format, including many = that don't normally provide Bridge Center This view of the Bridge interface shows everything from previews, and you can eas- links, to recently opened documents, to the latest RSS feeds from Adobe. ilyeditfilenamesand = SS metadata, InDesign users will appreciate Bridge's ability to display an InDesign document's font and color information without having to open the file. The interface has been improved with a Film- strip pane that shows both a strip of thumbnails and a full-size image. There's also a built-in slide- show feature that allows you to rate and label images as you view them. ‘Workflow improvements include better auto- mation, improved searching, and batch process- ing that spans the entire suite. Bridge also eases color management by automatically synchroniz- ing color settings throughout all the CS apps (this feature is not available if you purchase the apps individually). In addition to opening documents, Bridge lets you place files into illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign documents, making it a very effective | k Bridge—through its handy Bridge Center interface—provides a portal to Adobe's new stock-photo service, which sells images from PhotoDisk, ComStock, Digitalvision, and others. Though the feature doesn’t provide access to anything you can't get from a Web site, it gives you one interface that lets you search multiple stock libraries with one command, The Bridge Center also gives you instant access to your most recent files and folders, an RSS reader, the Help and color-management menus, end more. Bridge is not a replacement for an image~ cataloging program such as iView Multimedia's iView MediaPro 2 (#9691; March 2004), because it can't save catalogs of offline images. But for finding, organizing, and placing images in your current projects, Bridge is a great addition to How cs2 - Apps Use Bridge Photoshop InDesign Asa direct descendant of Photoshop's File Browser, Bridge is a key companion to Photo- shop C52. It’s a virtual light table, a slide pro- jector, and an automation assistant. | could see using some of the other Creative Suite 2 applications without also using Bridge, but | can't imagine using Photoshop CS2 without it—am HED Most InDesign users can easily ignore Bridge, except for setting suitewide color preferences (if they own the suite). Most designers will likely use InDesign as the primary interface to the layout’s constituent files, unless they're doing a lot of the Photoshop and Illustrator work, But Bridge is there—and it’s quite usable—if you need it —GALEN GRUMAN Illustrator Bridge is great for quickly finding the Illustrator document you're looking for, thanks to its thumb- nail display. Complex Illustrator documents often include many linked image files, and Bridge makes short work of finding, tracking, and plac- ing them.—BeNn tonc GoLive Adobe GoLive CS2 contains embedded versions of the two most useful Bridge tools for examin- ing versions and alternates, so there's little rea- son for GoLive users to use Bridge except to Jook at project files that aren’t part of a GoLive ‘Site. —GLENN FLEISHMAN, ‘www. macworld.com 4 | Made | Blissd | | | Blissd | istered trademark ae and in other countries. Wake up to your music. The iHome is home base for your iPod”. The iHome iH5™ is the iPod® home audio solution you've been waiting for. Besides brilliant sound, the iH5 features a digital AM/FM clock radio and plays your favorite iPod® music. So it will lull you to sleep and gradually wake you up to whatever tunes are on your iPod®. With the incredibly rich, natural stereo sound from our Reson8™ speakers, it’s great for every room in the house! 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This new palette provides immediate access to brush shape, opacity, and style, as well as drop- down menus for fill and stroke, But it also serves as an object inspector, giving you qui access to all the properties of a selected objec ‘To access additional properties, you can click on special hyperlinks in the Control palette, Doing so opens Ilustrator's full palettes, from which you can easily change just about any object property. Another welcome interface change is the ability to create and save workspaces, for easy switching between different palette configurations and organizations, Illustrator CS2 still has some annoying interface elements, though. The Color Pi is cumbersome, and odd behaviors are seat- tered throughout the program, But the Con- trol palette is a great addition to the package. « ery 7) Paint and Trace painting programs. Thanks to its Gap Detec- tion feature, you can use the Live Paint tool to fill areas that aren't completely closed, while modifier keys allow you to fill edges or quickly delete unwanted strokes and regions. In the past, organizing your document to get the fills that you wanted could be ve confusing. The Live Paint tool makes work- ing in Illustrator more like working in Photoshop, and it’s a great tool for users of all skill levels. Mlustrator tool for years, but it has never been particularly use- continues art ey eet eae es ‘hunneea-2 @ 250% CHUM When it comes to actual illustrating, the upgrade provides two great new drawing tools called Live Paint and Live Trace, The Live Paint tool is ically an. intelligent paint bucket. 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You can even edit the original linked bitmapped image, and Illustrator will auto- matically retrace it. Trace objects remain live and editable, even across sessions, until you tell Illustrator to expand the object into normal paths and fills. The Live Paint and Live Trace combo is the best solution yet for users who like to start on paper and fin- ish in vectors. Better Filtering than Photoshop Illustrator’s Appearance palette gets some improvements in this version. In addition to support for Live Paint and Live Trace | parameters, Illustrator CS2 includes all of Photoshop's standard filters. These filters can be applied to any bitmapped elements in your image, and any applied filters appear in the Appearance stack for that object as an applied effect. This means that you can go back at any time and change the filter’s parameters. Photoshop has needed this feature for years, and still doesn’t have it. In Illustrator CS2, it’s quick and easy. Illustrator CS2 has many other great additions—including the ability to move a stroke to the center, the inside, or the out- | side of a path; a facility for tinting gray-scale images with spot colors; and improved con- | trols for outputting tiled images. But all is | not perfect. Most annoying is Ilustrator’s | lack of multipage support, something that Macromedia FreeHand has had for years. Macworld’s Buying Advice I may rant sometimes about Illustrator, | but I stick with it because no competitor | can compare. Yes, there are little annoy- | ances, but it’s a great program. The new Live Paint and Live Trace features and new | filter capabilities are well worth the price of the upgrade. — RATING: $999) PROS: Convenient Command palette; extremely functional Live Paint and Live Trace tools; can apply Photoshop filters parametrically, CONS: No multipage support. PRICE: $499; upgrade, $169; CS2 suite, $899 COMPANY: Adobe Systems, www.adobe.com BEN LONG is the author of Complete Digital Photography (Charles River Media, 2004), now in its third edition, and a longtime tlustrator user, 30 MACWORLD August 2005 GoLive CS2 BY GLENN FLEISHMAN Adobe has added key features to GoLive that make this veteran of the Web-design wars even more appealing to its key audience of designers. But bugs in the release version, coupled with an uncertain future, make GoLive CS2 a tough product to recommend at this time. The bugs include pages that can’t be edited after you switch between the editing mode and the previewing mode, crashes when you open an alias to a missing network volume, and numer- — ous less-serious errors | Improved Program but Not a Critical Update using tables that produced code that was hard to comprehend and that some browsers disliked. Its Layout Grid feature now uses CSS behind the scenes. The CSS option in the Objects palette offers prefab- ricated layout blocks that appear to avoid many of the pitfalls in multicolumn and multirow CSS design. Small Devices GoLive CS2 has improved the range and quality of previews for small devices, which [W Colne Fie Gk Tyee Seca See Diagrams Weve } oes - throughout the pro- gram. Adobe product managers say that the bugs will be fixed in an update (the timing of the update was not set at press time). Harder to predict is GoLive’s future after Adobe’s pur- chase of Macromedia is complete. Macro- media Dreamweaver MX ($$); January 2004) currently dom- inates the market. Adobe's plan for both products is unknown. This version of GoLive has four significant changes: improvements to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); page creation and preview for small devices ehecanos pene Tiss pas ee he 2 pen (such as PDAs); secure file-transfer sessions; and rich file versioning for archiv- cated layouts. Easy Preview Adobe GoLive CS2’s improved CSS tools allow better interactive design. You can more easily preview its tyoographically rich pages and sophisti- ing and renditions (storing multiple versions in the same file). GoLive continues to omit support for database integration, a leading element in Dreamweaver's success. Full Visual CSS GoLive has long supported CSS, a method of consistently applying type and position- ing specifications. The latest release offers much-improved tools for building and pre- viewing pages using CSS. For instance, CSS selectors can be pre- viewed in Layout view, in a preview pane in the CSS Editor, and through the Live Ren- dering option. Adobe has abandoned the clunky approach to positioning items on a page include handhelds, cell phones, and a grow- ing host of small-screen Web browsers. GoLive CS? lets you keep a live preview of pages as they would appear on small screens. It also includes rich multimedia- creation tools for phone platforms that support it, including an MMS (Multi- media Messaging Service) designer that allows interleaving of text, audio, images, and video. While Adobe has included support for this kind of authoring in two previous GoLive releases, GoLive CS2's approach lets designers without a lot of techni- cal expertise design for phones and hand- held devices. continues wenwemacworld.com Wh & n This could be label Nirvana. The new, stylish and quick, Smart Label Printer; from yo U n eed Seiko Instruments. Stop wasting time trying to hand feed label sheets = to your standard printer, Pick up the J u S Oo n e m= New Smart Label Printer and you'll have everything you need to print labels easily, one at a time. Just like you want them, when you want them. No ink, toner, or complicated software to mess with. Plug the SLP into your Mac; connect to the built-in USB port and you're ready to print. 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Last year, Dream for Secure FTP + added support TP), which encrypts Simply order online and receive your 10 FREE E-GIFTS INSTANTLY! 32 MACWORLD August 2005 tem. Previous releases were erratic. What's best about Version Cue and GoLive CS2 is that they now work together happily for their given purposes: checking files in and out to allow groups to collaborate with com- mon files that can be archived. GoLive so works with other popular systems like CVS (Concurrent stem), for maintaining a persis- e of older files for comparison and reversion. GoLive CS2 brings SFTP and two other methods to ET (SSH tunneled FTP and FTP over Secure Sockets Layer, also known as FTPS), as well as scrambling WebDAV using SSL. You can even use pub- lic keys to skip enter- ing passwords. In my testing, Macworld’s Buying Advice SFTP in GoLive was In a word, If you currently use d unacceptably slow. GoLive, there's little point in upgrad- | And although ing until the bugs are gone, and then | Gol 2$2 has a you should do so only if you need the pro- “new method of gram’ new features. New users should wait retrieving files vi any form of FTP, this feature has a bug that causes the program to repeatedly retrieve listings of the same remote directories if iases or Unix symbolic links. Also, GoLive’s FFP goes at a crawl com- until Adobe's plans for Web-design pro- grams are clear. RATING: #8 PROS: Signficant CSS improvements; mobile-device authoring; encrypted file trnster. CONS: Buggy; lack of compelling new features. pared with dedicated FT'P programs such as Stairways Software's Interarchy ($$; Sep- tember 2003) or Fetch Softworks’ Fetch PRICE: $399; uparade (ftom any previous version of GoLive), $169; C52 Premium (with Acrobat 7), $1,199 COMPANY: Adobe Systems, www.adobe.com ($3; November 2004). GLENN FLEISHMAN writes about Wi-Fi and wireless tech- nology on several Weblogs. 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Each issue is loaded with authoritative product reviews, expert hints and tips, in-depth feature articles and more! wwwmacworld.com Version Cue CS2 wnt | really disliked Version Cue CS when Adobe intro- duced it with the first version of its Creative Suite, | found it awkward and highly unintuitive—and | wasn't alone, Adobe has greatly revamped this file-sharing and version-management adjunct to Creative Suite 2—so much so that I've come to tegard Version Cue as an extremely useful aid to workgroups and individuals. Version Cue lets you set up shared projects 0 that you or multiple people can access the same files from both Macs and PCs. Its file stor- age is independent of the computers that access it. As long as you set up a shared project in Ver- sion Cue (on your own Mac or on a networked server), anyone on the network can access project files and work with current versions of files and their alternates. But setting up these projects, or workspaces, ‘requires that you have a full version of Creative Suite 2, and only people who purchase the entire suite can create a workspace. (Any user of Adobe Design History Because Version Cue C52 can track multiple versions of your Creative Suite 2 files, you can go back to an earlier version or create a new branch of alternate versions. suite, can access, read from, and write to work- spaces—but only suite users can create or delete them.) Version Cue C52 is so handy that I'm dis- appointed the full Creative Suite 2 is required. Workgroups composed of Photoshop and Illustra- tor users who don’t use InDesign and Gotive won't get Version Cue. In effect, this forces those “. Attic bedrooms and bath "Save A Version of 1534 Wallerindd ‘Added separate layer for multimedia elements @ _52¥ing wit aimays save your changes locally. However, ‘Saving 4 version is how you define a seies of ets 38 Important or reidy for sharing with others. 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