Do all bads things come in threes?
By Cari Jansen | February 2, 2008
Ok, so my site was down for almost 3 days, so was my email… all as a result of my domain host doing a Server Upgrade… Apparently they started the rollover in September/October, and as a result copied files across at the time? They forgot all about it when they did the final rollover and pointed DNS to new location, which had old files in it… They incremented the DNS and overnight it reset itself back to Sept’07 several times?
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Server update
By Cari Jansen | January 30, 2008
My domain host updated the server that hosts my domain this afternoon. And in doing so copied an old site (Sept’07) across to the new server, which some of you might have seen up and running for a couple of hours.
Following that, the services needed to be re-instated, which meant the site was entirely down for about 3-4hrs. My apologies on behalf of my domain host for any inconvenience this might have caused.
All services seem to have been restored now.
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Update 5.0.2 released
By Cari Jansen | January 23, 2008
Adobe’s released InDesign and InCopy 5.0.2 updates today. Fixing quite a few bugs in this release, so a must have update.
Web-reference: InCopy 5.0.2 Update for Mac (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InCopy 5.0.2 Update for PC (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InCopy 5.0.2 Release Notes (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.2 Update for Mac (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.2 Update for PC (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.2 Release Notes (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
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Colour Management
By Cari Jansen | January 21, 2008
As someone who has Real World Color Management by Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting and the late Bruce Fraser on the shelf. A publication I highly recommend for anyone interested in learning about “all things colour”. It’s great to see that Chris Murphy has written Colour Management Essential Training. According to Amazon.com’s write-up:
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Temporary Access to Selection Tools
By Cari Jansen | January 17, 2008
Digitip 068 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Ok, not really an extensive tip… more an observation and question - at the end - with some tip elements in it that I thought I’d share.
Pressing the Command (Mac) or Ctrl (Win) key whilst you are working with another tool in InDesign will give you temporary access to either the Selection or Direct Selection tool.
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InDesign CS3 - Exam Prep Guide
By Cari Jansen | January 17, 2008
Was talking to a colleague in the US this morning and she mentioned that the Exam Prepraration Guide for InDesign CS3 has (finally) been released.
If you’re not yet an Adobe Certified Expert and are interested in becoming a member of a growing group of Adobe Certified Experts, you can start reviewing this guide, study and sit the exam at any Thomson, Prometric or Pearson VUE centre in your area.
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Glossary of Typographic Terms
By Cari Jansen | January 14, 2008
From ‘Accent Mark’ to ‘X-height’. Typophile.com provides a very cool list of typographic terms. I have to admit there are plenty of terms on the list I’ve never heard of before… Did you know that an en-dash is sometimes called a Nut? Well I most certainly did not 
Web-reference: Terminology (2007, Typophile)
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Using Scripts in InDesign, CornerEffects
By Cari Jansen | January 13, 2008
Digitip 067 - Adobe InDesign CS3
The following tip will take you through Script installation, running scripts, assigning a keyboard shortcut to a script and reviews the sample script “CornerEffects.jsx”.
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Adobe spies? - Myth busted
By Cari Jansen | January 13, 2008
A lot of forums and blogs over the past weeks have started rumors about calls being made to *.2O7.net when your Adobe software fetches up-to-date info from the Adobe web-site. People thought the Big Red A was spying on them…
John Nack on Adobe (Adobe Blogs) spent a fair bit of time demystifying what’s going on and Adobe has just released a TechNote that explains it all. In a nutshell: Adobe does not spy on you. Myth Busted!
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Automatic Frame Resizing with AutoFit
By Cari Jansen | January 5, 2008
Digitip 066 - Adobe InDesign CS3 / Typefi AutoFit
The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi’s Autofit plug-in - downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign. In this tip you’ll learn how text is run into a Header-Text Frame and a Body Content Text-Frame that are threaded to eachother. As the text is formatted with Paragraph Styles, the Header and Body Content Text Frames automatically grow to fit the header text and to balance the body content across three columns.
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