Repeating pattern / seamless tile design in Photoshop and Illustrator -- do I need plugins?
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posted by kmel
on Jun 5, 2006 -
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Please help me save some time laying out a document in Adobe InDesign...
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posted by omair
on May 27, 2006 -
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Trouble with XP, Firefox 1.5.0.3, and Adobe Reader 7.0.7... I have reinstalled everything other than the OS. Firefox crashes every time it loads a PDF... How do I remedy this?
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posted by seinfeld
on May 23, 2006 -
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What free software can I use to open and convert an Adobe InDesign .indd file on Windows XP? Will GIMP do the job? Inkscape? Yes, I've read the answers to
this question.
posted by obiwanwasabi
on May 21, 2006 -
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Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional: I've got a document with several hundred links in it. Right now, they're all invisible; I'd like to change them all to dotted rectangles of a particular color. Is there any way to change the appearance of every link in the document simultaneously? "Make this the default appearance" doesn't do it; it only affects the links you make in the future. Help?
posted by logovisual
on May 12, 2006 -
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PDFfilter: How easiest to format/generate the same information to be sent to mobile phones and PDA's.
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posted by geekyguy
on Apr 13, 2006 -
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Hello,
We have a video project that we have made inside Adobe Premire 1.5. We have tried to burn it to DVD via Premiere, but it kept giving us a record error.
We also have Nero 6, but whenever we select DVD Video and place the avi file into the browser, the record button for burning a DVD is not enabled.
Thank you in advance for your help.
posted by cheero
on Apr 7, 2006 -
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Looking for best 'get me up to speed' resources for Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop & how to take jobs to printers.
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posted by Chuck Cheeze
on Apr 5, 2006 -
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Using work apps at home under OS X. How do I make an image of my work hard drive on an external Firewire hard drive, bring it home, boot up my Mac from it, and use the apps to do print production work?
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posted by rleamon
on Apr 2, 2006 -
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How to fully protect an Adobe pdf? I want to post an exam temporarily on the net for my class, and I'm using Adobe Pro 7.0's security functions to disable editing and printing functions (so students can't easily print and circulate the exam). The doc can still be saved, however. Adobe forums seem to have no idea how to disable the SAVE pdf function....
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posted by rexruff
on Mar 15, 2006 -
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Is there any program or plugin out there to count the number of points in an Adobe Illustrator file?
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posted by Mark5four0
on Mar 14, 2006 -
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Is there any cheap and easy way to highlight or underline PDF documents? I do a lot of research, and I'd like to be able to tag important points in some way.
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posted by purplevelvet
on Feb 20, 2006 -
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Help me understand K4, the workflow engine for Adobe InDesign. How tightly integrated is it with the Adobe suite? Is it the best/only choice for that phase of content management, or does it provide just the basic CM functionality (library services, versioning, etc.) found in any enterprise CMS worth its salt? In other words, how many content management systems does it take to run a (mid-sized) publishing company?
posted by pessoa
on Feb 8, 2006 -
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I recently installed Adobe InDesign CS2, and then had to uninstall it. When I tried to install it a second time, I get the message that I have to "personalize" my software (meaning put in the serial number again). The problem is it never works. All Adobe's help site says is that I have different language versions installed, but I don't. I've cleaned the registry (as far as I know) and searched for any remaining files but to no luck. How do I get it to work again?
posted by Hall
on Feb 6, 2006 -
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When I export a PDF from InDesign CS2 the quality is noticeably bad. What am I doing wrong?
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posted by stopgap
on Feb 6, 2006 -
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Adobe PDFMaker and its attendant Word toolbars only work on an Administrator Account. Is there a way to make it work on a Limited User account? I'm on Windows XP.
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posted by stopgap
on Jan 30, 2006 -
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Adobe Indesign: I'm hoping to design a vocal recital program in Adobe Indesign. By that I mean a booklet given out before a classical music performance with song texts, translations, and notes. Can anyone find any example indesign files for me to learn off of?
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posted by sirion
on Jan 23, 2006 -
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Where can I find a good free online guide to using Adobe Premiere Pro?
posted by crewshell
on Jan 23, 2006 -
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Firefox and (surprise!) Acrobat Reader problems. Upgraded Acrobat Reader via its internal upgrade routine (while in Firefox). The upgrade crashed halfway through. Now neither Firefox nor Adobe Download Manager seem to have DNS capability. Also, neither program can be removed from memory—using
End Process in the Windows Task Manager does nothing. What gives?
posted by DrJohnEvans
on Dec 14, 2005 -
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I've been wondering. Is anyone working on a OSX replacement for photoshop and illustrator? Something native to the OS and without all the baggage, oddness, and expense of the Adobe programs.
I wondered about this for some time, but after checking out Microsofts' (yes really) Expression package, it makes me wonder . . . what's next for drawing/illustration software on the Mac?
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat
on Nov 21, 2005 -
18 answers
Adobe Gamma makes my laptop screen really dark. Um, should it do that? Is there something I should be using instead?
posted by Pretty_Generic
on Oct 17, 2005 -
8 answers
I want to migrate an irritatingly large number of QuarkXPress 6.0 publications to InDesign. What are my options? What are your recommendations?
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posted by killdevil
on Oct 12, 2005 -
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Every time I open Adobe Acrobat, it creates a folder in My Documents called "My eBooks." How can I stop this? I hate repeatedly deleting this folder, and I'd rather not just make it "hidden."
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posted by clgregor
on Sep 28, 2005 -
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How do I apply two Pantone spot colors to a linear gradient in Adobe Illustrator CS2?
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posted by killdevil
on Sep 28, 2005 -
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In Illustrator CS (and earlier, I believe) it is possible to create dynamic documents that reference a text file (they call this data-driven graphics). Is this (or something close) available in InDesign?
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posted by silusGROK
on Aug 10, 2005 -
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I was searching for student pricing for software and I came up with a site offering radical discounts on something I'm interested in. Is it too good to be true?
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posted by jmevius
on Jul 21, 2005 -
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Since upgrading to OSX Tiger on my Powerbook G4, Adobe Illustrator CS has been acting a little flaky. Among assorted document hangs/crashes (requiring force-quits), Illustrator keeps creating .tmp files on my desktop such as "Acr1058251.tmp". I've done a bit of googling and, as suggested, have changed my prefs to not create PDF's upon saving, but this doesn't seem to help. Have any designers out there found a solid answer to why these files are being created, and a proper fix?
posted by sharksandwich
on Jun 1, 2005 -
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Take a look at this
screengrab This is annoying as hell, and here's how I tried to fix:
-Reinstall of Office 2003
-Reinstall of Acrobat 6.5
-Deleted all Adobe PDFMaker.dot files
Then went to the Adobe knowledgebase and
found
this.
Nothing has worked yet. What do you think it is? fyi - This is a Dell PC running XP pro sp1
posted by stevejensen
on Apr 26, 2005 -
14 answers
In Fireworks it's a one-click process to export an image slice individually (ie. right-click and select "export selected slice"). Is is possible to do the same thing quickly using Adobe ImageReady?
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posted by bruceyeah
on Apr 18, 2005 -
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How can I draw two or more paths in Illustrator and link them together while preserving each paths' own fill and stroke? Example inside.
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posted by odinsdream
on Apr 3, 2005 -
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I have a PDF file that doesn't want to print. The print commands are grayed out in Acrobat Reader. The lock symbol appears indicating that the document is encrypted to prevent modification of "certain aspects". However, I have other documents which appear to have similar encryption that print fine. Is the encryption causing this problem? If not, then what is? How can I work round the problem?
posted by nthdegx
on Mar 16, 2005 -
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I need to make real PDFs but I'm far away from civilization and my own computer. I downloaded the "30 day" trial version, and it told me my 30 days were up after a week! Could someone point me to some free?
posted by fucker
on Feb 26, 2005 -
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I'm new t Adobe Illustrator. Where the heck are all the built in vector shapes in Adobe Illustrator 10? Even PowerPoint has tons of premade shapes ready to go. Why do I only get a rectangle, oval, polygon, and some other freaky looking thing? Help?
posted by punkfloyd
on Feb 8, 2005 -
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VideoProductionFilter: I’d like to experiment with adding 3d objects into a video clip. What should I use? [mi]
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posted by sexymofo
on Feb 8, 2005 -
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Is it possible to convert or otherwise use Photshop plugins from Windows to Mac? I have lots of legacy plugins and effects from the old Windows PC here at work. We switched to Mac but many of the plugins are not available for Mac.
posted by ooklah
on Jan 27, 2005 -
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Simplifying eps vector drawings. I'm looking for a way to eliminate overlapping paths in complex line drawings. Almost all of the lines are made up of multiple independent, straight paths sitting precisely on top of each other. To shrink the file size and make editing easier I'd like to get rid of this redundancy. Is converting to raster then back to vector the best solution?
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posted by shoos
on Jan 25, 2005 -
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CSS/Flash Filter: I'm working on a mockup for a new company website, and I'm not particularly experienced with Flash.
The page that I'm working on has a CSS generated menu that when it pops up, comes up under the flash applet. Please excuse the poor coding...
posted by jackofsaxons
on Jan 20, 2005 -
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