David Blatner

Who is David Blatner?

David Blatner is a writer and speaker specializing in desktop publishing software, such as Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress. Blatner has written 15 books about various subjects with over a half-million books in print, including Spectrums, The Joy of Pi, The Flying Book, Judaism For Dummies, and Silicon Mirage: The Art and Science of Virtual Reality.

He also wrote the bestselling book on QuarkXPress in the 1990s, The QuarkXPress Book but changed allegiances in the 21st century to Adobe InDesign, about which he has now written or co-written several books. A cofounder of the InDesignSecrets Web site, he cohosts a podcast by the same name and publishes InDesign Magazine and "PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference".

Blatner was also among the first to explore the needs of saving web sites of people after they died, in his 1997 article "Things to Do on the Web When You're Dead".