July 2, 2009
Hello, my friends! I'm just back from my brief tour in the UK, and this time the focus was around Universities, broadcast and industry clientel, and a special appearance at the FCPUG Supermeet in London, reprising my performance from the...
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Anyone who creates computer-based tutorials for a client knows the kind of effort that goes into applying a consistent style, in on-screen text as well as visuals. If you are using Captivate to create these tutorials, there are many ways...
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Designer/Twitter crazy person Sam Potts made what I thought was a good suggestion earlier today: The Copy Color as HTML in the color panel is awesome. Everyone uses it all the time. However, times have changed and my guess is...
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Copying Merged Layers (and Groups) Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + Shift + C (with a selection) copies a merged view of all visible layers onto the clipboard. Option-Command (Mac) / Alt-Control (Win) + Shift +E, pastes a merged copy...
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Fish hover in space in Michael Itkoff's Perch on Ice. The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year set features some lovely images, all freely shared. [Via] NYC: Martin Sobey's colorful on-street photographic installations punch up the street in front...
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July 1, 2009
I've been meeting and talking with some UK Local Authorities this week and have been asked a lot about Accessibility in PDF files. (By the way, have I been piling up the miles or what?) For me accessibility really starts...
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I was looking around the web for some creative tutorials for Fireworks which can be of good use for newbie to Fireworks or for people who are stuck in the same workflow for multiple versions of the application. There...
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Adobe researchers Hailin Jin and Aseem Agarwala*, collaborating with U.Wisconsin prof. Michael Gleicher & Feng Liu, have unveiled their work on "Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization." In other words, their tech can give your (and my) crappy hand-held footage...
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Command (Mac) / Control (Win) -click the disclosure triangle next to a layer Group to expand or collapse all layer Groups in the document. Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) -click the disclosure triangle to expand collapse all groups nested within...
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Tags: Contribute,RSS Aggregators Using Contribute, you can easily post content such as news items to your blog from RSS aggregators. You can set Contribute as your blog publishing tool in RSS aggregators such as FeedDemon (Windows) and NetNewsWire (Mac OS)....
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June 30, 2009
FrameMaker,DITA,XML authoring,PDF,CMS,Specialisation,MIF,cross-reference,WebDav,reltable,Publishing,Patch,Facing Pages Dear Framers I hope all of you have comfortably installed 9.0.2 by now. Though this was difficult...
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Applying a character tag to comments and editorial notes makes them stand out from the rest of the content even when condition indicators are hidden.
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The issue related to all comments landing in the junk section has been finally resolved. From now on commenters will have to type the word 'Fireworks' to ensure that the comment is a valid one and not from an...
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To automatically select Layer Groups (as oppose to selecting individual layers), with the Move tool selected, check the Auto-Select box in the Options bar and choose Group from the pull-down menu....
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I just saw Daring Fireball point to an SJ Merc story relaying the rather banal news that most Adobe offices are closed this week. So they are*. I'm no expert on company expense management, nor am I a corporate spokesperson...
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June 29, 2009
Hi All, I noticed that all the comments from you are now going to Junk comments section. I have raised an alarm internally. Also I have managed to find all the legitimate comments from the junk section. If you...
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If you try to add a list to a list in a process, you’ll get unexpected behavior — because it’s not supported. Nor can you add a list to a map, a map to a list, or (you guessed it)...
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It was my pleasure to help the GridIron Software folks officially launch Flow this morning. I got to reveal a previously unannounced feature that's dear to my heart: Flash panels (screenshot) that run inside CS4 applications*, offering immediate context for...
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To delete a Group, select Layer > Delete > Group or, with the Group selected on the Layers panel, click the trash can icon. Either method displays a dialog with the options to delete the “Group and Contents” (which deletes...
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If you've left a comment on this blog in the past month or so, and you wondered why I didn't approve it or respond, then you might be interested to know that our spam filter went rogue and started killing... well... everything. I'm digging through the purported spam now, trying to find the legitimate comments and approve them and respond to them....
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June 28, 2009
I dig Andrew Curtis's Cinco De Mayo Carnival timelapses (not to mention the infectious soundtrack). He's uploaded this clip and many others as iTunes video podcasts. (Check out Dizzy Driving.) [Via] SignalTheorist created a long-exposure capture of a Roomba...
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tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/06/62209_weekly_wrapup_rjacquez_o.html'; tweetmeme_source = 'rjacquez'; By RJ Jacquez. Follow him on Twitter in English @rjacquez and in Spanish @rjacquezEspanol, for real-time announcements, tips & tricks, how-to tutorials, Did You Know's, best practices, Adobe-branded giveaways and more. This week...
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Shockwave 3D is leading the charge in online games. Shockwave games were 67.9% of all plays in the top 20.
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June 27, 2009
It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I've been getting a ridiculous amount of enjoyment this week from this episode of "Auto-Tune the News": I've gotta meet these guys & learn more about how they manipulate video to create...
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tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/06/embedding_pdfs_in_blogs_via_ac.html'; tweetmeme_source = 'rjacquez'; Now that Acrobat.com has moved out of beta and into full production with two new Premium subscription services, I want to take this opportunity to highlight the ability to embed PDF files in...
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Here's your weekly summary of Acrobat news, Acrobat tips and user comments about Acrobat. Summarizing Twitter (so you don't have to). Enjoy your weekend. Dave Stromfeld On Twitter at @acro_dave News 06-26-09 From the blog "Yes Tech!" - How...
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June 26, 2009
Since we released LiveCycle ES last year, we have continued to update and improve the documentation. We hear what you are telling us and are working with the various teams here at Adobe provide you, the customer, with the best...
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The University of Denver Center for Teaching & Learning has (finally) released the DU CourseMedia™ Course Media Management System. This has been a focus of my work for the past 5 months or so and is one of the major...
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In motion: Chris Gavin's stop-motion TXT ISLAND rocks*. "This summer...," it's Big. Red. Text! [Via] Bleh: Why can I not resist mentioning this jock strap font? Bibliodyssey features a "Grotesque Alphabet" from the 16th century. Logos: myInkBlog rounds up...
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Ok, this time I really am ignoring you. After today I'm off to cottage country. I will have no access to the Internet, but plenty of access to boats, swimming, campfires, fishing, mosquitos,... Back to work on July 6. Meanwhile,...
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