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Isolating Groups

Isolating Groups

Digitip 036 – Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Revision 1.1) You might have wondered about this grey box that appears around your artwork occassionally in Illustrator CS2. Well, it is a new feature included with Illustrator CS2: The “isolate selected group mode”. It works on any group, clipping masks, blends, pathfinder (unextracted) and much more.

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 […]