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 on varied 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 a book on QuarkXPress in the 1990s, ''The QuarkXPress Book'' (winner of the 1991 Benjamin Franklin award for technical writing; later titled ''Real World QuarkXPress,'') but later changed to Adobe InDesign, about which he has written or co-written several books (including ''Real World InDesign''). A cofounder of the InDesignSecrets Web site and ''InDesign Magazine'', and cohosts a podcast by the same name. Blatner also co-hosts CreativePro Week, a week-long set of conferences for creative professionals.

He lives outside Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Debbie Carlson, and two sons. Provided by Wikipedia