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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Masked Text
By Cari Jansen | January 4, 2008
Digitip 065 - Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3
This tip is Part 3 of a three-part tip and generates the masked text. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork is created and Part 2 outlines how to apply Live Trace and maintain colour editing ability.
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Tracing the Trace Graphic
By Cari Jansen | January 4, 2008
Digitip 064 - Adobe Illustrator CS3
This tip is Part 2 of a three-part tip. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork that is placed into the Illustrator file was created and Part 3 will create the Text Effect that will give our finished result.
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Preparing the Trace Graphic
By Cari Jansen | January 4, 2008
Digitip 063 - Adobe Photoshop CS3
A month or so ago I demoed a masking technique that works well with text in Illustrator during an Adobe eSeminar I delivered. At the time I promised to write this technique up as a digitip, however, an extremely busy workschedule meant I’d not yet gotten around to posting the tip. But a promise is a promise. To make up for the delay in posting this tip, I’ve spruced up the tip with Adobe Photoshop CS3 artwork creation, and that’s where I’ll start Part 1 of this three-part tip.
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Script page links fixed
By Cari Jansen | January 2, 2008
I’ve just uploaded the scripts again. An oversight on my part - I forgot to upload the scripts to the server -. Which means they’ve not been available. Thank you Eric for dropping me an email to let me know.
I hope all’s working well now.
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Scaling Effects
By Cari Jansen | January 1, 2008
Digitip 062 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Last week, the InDesign Talk list had an interesting discussion about scaling effects in InDesign. As far as I can tell from some tests I’ve just run, it is only the Drop Shadow Effect that doesn’t scale. All other effects seem to scale appropriately.
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Ins and Outs of Stroke Alignment
By Cari Jansen | December 31, 2007
Digitip 061 - Adobe InDesign CS3
For those of us setting Ads in InDesign the introduction of the feature that can set Stroke Alignment on border objects to “Align Stroke to Inside” in InDesign CS was welcomed with open arms. Gone were the days of borders vanishing into the Pasteboard gray…
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Site Revision
By Cari Jansen | December 30, 2007
It’s almost becoming an annual event… a site revision.
This one is a major upgrade. Now working with Wordpress and totally database driven content. Rather than building everything from scratch I’ve done what most Wordpressers do… used an existing Wordpress theme and made my own amendments to it.
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Publisher to InDesign
By Cari Jansen | December 7, 2007
It’s quite exciting to see that more and more Microsoft Publisher users are making the jump across to Adobe InDesign. If you are a Microsoft Publisher user and have lots of old Publisher files and would like to convert to InDesign without having to recreate your files in InDesign, Markzware’s PUB2ID plug-in for InDesign can come to your rescue.
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