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For over ten years I was a contributing editor to Mac/Chicago magazine, which changed its name to Digital Chicago in the late 90's. Sadly, the publication is no more, even though it had a huge and loyal following in and outside of Chicago. (I saved all my articles and am slowly adding them to the Archives.) I remain in close contact with the people who made it happen, who are all successfully following their own paths.

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999
Subject: PDF 4 Press
From: "John W."

Hi Anne-Marie,

I just read your article PDFs 4 Press and loved it.

We are a VPN in Australia using Linux Boxes to facilitate a PDF workflow for our clients, I think your article hits the nail on the head and we would love to be able to reproduce it on our website 100% as is with all the credits you desire.

Hopefully this is agreeable to you.

I look forward to corresponding further.

Regards

John

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999
From: Sandy B.
Subject: Prepress for Designers

Dear Anne-Marie:

As a Digital Chicago subscriber, I have benefited immensely from reading your columns. (I especially liked your article on Acrobat 4.0. I'm working on mastering the fine art of pdf.)

I'm a designer/service bureau person who, like many others, struggles to keep up with the latest, greatest software and desktop methods. You're always two steps ahead of the rest of us, and you know how to make this stuff palatable. I also have 20+ years as a typesetter/designer, who still remembers how to do keyline and pasteup. I consider myself more technical and print-savvy than most designers, having to deal with nightmare output jobs on a regular basis. And like many others, I've learned things the hard way -- by making mistakes. So I appreciate your know how.

Sandy

From: "Slayton S."
Subject: Re: PDF Seps from Quark?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999

Anne-Marie,

I don't know what the QXP and Acrobat users out here would do without someone like you who can tackle these seemingly complex problems and come up with easy to understand and follow explanations and examples. I look forward to reading your new article since I have purchased Acrobat 4 and am hesitant to install it...I'm a chicken at heart when it comes to messing with clients' deadlines and quality of output. We are sticking with sending non-composite PDFs to our printer (that's how they want them so that's how we send them...it also lets us see that the plates did separate properly).

Keep up the great work, Anne-Marie.

Slayton S.
Enterprise, Alabama

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998
From: Kurt Foss <kfoss@pdfzone.com>
Subject: Also ...

We're mentioning and pointing to your recent DigChicago article on Acrobat ... in this week's issue of our Emerge EXTRA ezine and web newsletter. It was excellent!

Would you also like us to include a link to Seneca Design?

rgds ~ Kurt

---> T h e E m e r g e P D F z o n e <--- "Solutions for PDF Professionals"

Keep in mind that in 1998, rollovers and table splicing were still fairly new and there were very few programs, if any, that could automate it ...

Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998
From: Bill S.
Subject: column=cool

Anne Marie-

I really enjoy reading your column in Dig.Chicago. It's nice that learning one or two new skills (breaking .gifs into tables, javescript rollovers) has such a huge impact on every page I design hereafter. Please spin by and take a look at my site. My goal is to have the definitive artist website on the web.

I'd love to hear your comments about my site, and please keep up the awesome column!

yours, william

From: "Chris K."
Subject: Acrobat article
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998

It was an outstanding article, and I pretty much dig Digital Chicago in general. In fact, my reading your article is the reason we're considering Acrobat as a way of creating electronic forms for our customers.

Chris K.
Intranet Designer

Caught the following message in a WebGrrls listserv archive...

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998
From: Joy L.
Subject: Re: [wg-chi] (info) Digital Chicago is back!

Amy wrote:

For those of you who were wondering, Digital Chicago is back in publication! I just received a copy in my mailbox. The "Publisher's Letter" says it's now a subsidiary of the SunTimes. Haven't had a chance to look it over yet, so I can't say if it's better or worse. But there's an article about Adobe Acrobat

It's a great article. I would recommend EVERYONE READING IT!

by our very own Webgrrl, Anne-Marie Concepcion!

EGADS! I am even more impressed now with Webgrrls.

Anne-Marie is an excellent writer. I've admired her in the past Digital Chicago's, and a lot of my knowledge in this field is because of her excellent articles -- which are smooth enough at first reading so you get the general idea, but rich and deep enough, so that you find yourself going back to them again and again, for those special things that save you immense time. That's a very special talent. We should all be very proud of her!

The first article I read by her in Digital Chicago was in the November/December 1995 issue 'Preparing Graphics for the Web'. It's illustrated well, and it's been an immense resource for me.

And to her credit, The Adobe Internet Conference which I attended a year or two ago, included this article in their take home manual. . . much to my delight since my puppy had chewed up my copy of that article.

Joy L.

Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998
From: Tom Borromeo
Subject: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Hi Anne Marie:

10 minutes ago I had never heard of you. Now I'm eternally grateful. I'm trying to put together my first website to show off my cartoons, and I was trying in vain to find the elusive web-safe color table in Photoshop. After a fruitless search, I find your article on the subject in Digital Chicago (which I also had never heard of). You pinpointed the problem (Adobe oversight---NOT my digital ignorance) and the solution.

I'm a great fan of the Web for all the useful information contained therein, but I realize that its value is dependent upon knowledgeable people willing to share the goods.

Thanks for sharing.

Best, Tom B.

[This must have been circa Photoshop 3 or 4, before it had any web-related features ... AM]

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997
From: Mark R.
Subject: Great article!

Dear Anne-Marie;

I just wanted to tell you how helpful I found your Digital Chicago article "Promoting Your Web-Site". The links to the search engine's submittal pages was outstanding. That one page saved me hours of work.

Thanks again.

P.S. I saw you on TV the other night, I think it was the John Callaway show. You were great!

Mark

[This was directed to the publisher who forwarded it on to me ...]

Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997
From: "David A."
Subject: great magazine

I have been receiving your magazine for two months now. I don't know how I survived without it. I own a fledgling website design company and I read Wired to stay abreast of market news, etc.

But I have found Digital Chicago provides greater "real world knowledge". For instance, after reading your article own how to maximize search engine response, I went through and changed all the meta tags on my clients pages.

I just wanted you to know you have a great magazine and I look forward to every issue!

Dave A.