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Posts by Cari Jansen

About Snippets and Libraries

About Snippets and Libraries

Digitip 035 – Adobe InDesign CS2 Someone at the InDesign Talk forum, asked a while ago what the difference between a snippet and an object library was. As a comparison both a snippet and a object in a library can contain InDesign content that can be reused in other (or same) InDesign documents… So what makes […]

Access the dictionary from your PDF

Access the dictionary from your PDF

Digitip 033 – Adobe Acrobat / Adobe Reader (quick tip) You are reading this really complex PDF and all of a sudden the word “vegemite” appears.  You’re not an Australian and wonder what this is.  And grab your dictionary and turn the pages till you get to the letter ‘v’, to discover the word doesn’t […]

3D Easter Eggs

3D Easter Eggs

Digitip 032 – Adobe Illustrator CS Just remembering how as kids we used to paint Easter eggs, using coloured die. When leaving the eggs in the die too long, your egg-white would turn green, purple or any other colour we might be painting. Today I prefer the chocolate Easter egg variety over the hard boiled […]