David Blatner

David Blatner
Born	February 13, 1966(1966-02-13) Palo Alto, California
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author, Speaker

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 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 (winner of the 1991 Benjamin Franklin award for technical writing; later titled Real World QuarkXPress,) but changed allegiances in the 21st century to Adobe InDesign, about which he has now written or co-written several books (including Real World InDesign). A cofounder of the InDesignSecrets Web site, he cohosts a podcast by the same name and helps direct InDesign Magazine and the "Print and ePublishing Conference".

Blatner--the son of American psychiatric pioneer Adam 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".

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Name	Blatner, David
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Date of birth	1966-02-13
Place of birth	Palo Alto, California
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