David Blatner

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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, 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 (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.