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Comment on Useful extras for extending Flash Builder (and Eclipse) by Kumar oyna

Kumar oyna — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:25:38 +0000

Hello.This article was really fascinating, particularly because I was looking for thoughts on this matter last Sunday.

Comment on What’s new in Illustrator CS6 by relocation

relocation — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:28:54 +0000

WONDERFUL Post.thanks for share… waiting for more.

Comment on .indd file type not recognised under Windows 7 by David Forcey

David Forcey — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:57:57 +0000

FIXED! Thank You! I had a workstation with Win7 that had been upgraded from CS3 to CS6. “indd” files had no program association and when I went through the normal routine to set up a Windows file association, InDesign would not show up as a choice. I would browse for the .exe, choose (open) it, and the next step would be to decide whether to leave the check box checked to make your choice the default… even after I had chosen InDesign.exe, it wasn’t showing up in the list – only Illustrator and Acrobat. Ran ccleaner on the registry. Worked. Done. Thanks!

Comment on Creating interactive documents with InDesign pt4 by Luis Maya

Luis Maya — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:17:59 +0000

Thank you for the infomation you have provide.This is very helpful and a refresher for me.

Comment on Using InDesign's gap tool by MASOOD AHMAD

MASOOD AHMAD — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:34:38 +0000

Hi All,

You can set the gap distance in InDesign CS5. The gap (when we create multiple frames using the mouse drag + right + up arrow keys) is actually the Gutter space.

Try the following steps:
1. Open/create a document.
2. create multiple frames using mouse drag + right + up arrow keys.
3. check the gap.
4. now go to Layout menu > margins and columns…
5. change the gutter space to any desired value. lets say 10 mm.
6. now again create multiple frames using mouse drag + right + up arrow keys.
7. check again the gap.

……… oh, so easy!

Regards,
Masood Ahmad

Comment on Paste In Place – Illustrator to Photoshop with Smart Objects by Steven

Steven — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:38:48 +0000

The simplest of tasks can be such a pain in the rear-end. Thanks for making it simple!

Comment on InDesign CS6 New features, PDF Forms by Dale

Dale — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:22:02 +0000

Hello Jon. You likely have already tried this, but I found a simple time- and effort-saver in my own struggles with this issue. This was to use copy and paste. It’s not an ideal solution – being able to have some sort of “update link” functionality similar to Photoshop et.al. within Acrobat Pro would be useful here. But this basic technique eliminated a bit of the frustration. Mind you, I only had eight Acrobat-derived fields to update on a single pdf page and not dozens across multiple pages….

In my case I had used Acrobat Pro XI to add a simple calculator-like capability (using basic Java scripting that I’m learning) to a pdf that was output from InDesign. Indeed, making follow-on graphical/text changes to the InDesign document and regenerating the “background” pdf does require that the form fields be re-added within Acrobat. In my case I had created eight number-based fields within Acrobat Pro, most featuring a bit of Java script to perform my rudimentary calcuations.

To avoid having to recreate these fields each time I updated the pdf from InDesign, what worked in my case was to simply select and copy all of the text and number fields within Acrobat while working in editing mode with my soon-to-be-updated pdf document. After making my InDesign edits and regenerating the pdf, once back in Acrobat Pro and using its editing mode I pasted the same fields into the new pdf. While they were still selected as a group I repositioned them using the mouse to their proper alignment on the page and resaved the document. The only “fussing” I had to do was to reinsure that the field calculation order was correct…

One set of fields allow the user to enter a set of input numbers, which are then used to calculate and simple Java scripting that I’ve learned is used to output a set of calculated numbers.

Comment on InDesign CS6 New features, PDF Forms by Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:28:18 +0000

Fair point, it will certainly be interesting to see what else gets added in CS6.5 / CS7 when they come around.

Comment on InDesign CS6 New features, PDF Forms by Jon

Jon — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:15:50 +0000

I agree it’s a step in the right direction, but without ALL the form field options available in InDesign, and having to re-tweak each field in acrobat for every artwork change, it’s like getting 9 yards instead of a first down. Close, but I still have to punt.

Comment on Illustrator and SVG, an example of getting your vectors onto the web by Bob

Bob — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:10:56 +0000

Alex, greatwork. I had the problem that I thought Illustrator will export the SVG in numbers directly, but it adds all the png files of the art work in the xml. I don’t understand; Do you have to take the numbers from the preview everytime when saving as SVG in Illustrator. I also tried everything of the above, but could not get the result.
Could you mail me the complete code with your SVG numbers inside. (are they only the numbers, because I tried another svg mysel) this was ok in the browser.
Thanks alot again for your explanation
Bob