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InDesign: Paragraph rules don’t show up

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe InDesign on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re applying paragraph rules in Adobe InDesign but they aren’t visible, check the following in the Paragraph Rules dialog box (or the Paragraph Rules pane of the Paragraph Style Options dialog box if you’re editing a style): Make sure Rule On is enabled. If Weight is set to 0, increase the stroke weight. If [...]

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Photoshop: Preview checkbox shortcut in dialog boxes

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

One of my favorite new features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 is the new keyboard shortcut for clicking the Preview checkbox in dialog boxes. Just press the P key! Adobe wisely brought in this shortcut from Adobe Camera Raw, and it saves a lot of repetitive mousing when you’re doing before/after comparisons. It’s one of those [...]

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InDesign: Aligning by nudging, despite fractional units

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe InDesign on March 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »

When aligning selected objects in InDesign, you can nudge them by pressing the arrow keys. In some cases it can be impossible to use the arrow keys to align two objects when either object’s position is a fractional unit, such as an X position of 124.582 points. If the second object is positioned at 124 [...]

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Acrobat: Select multiple comments

Posted in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite on February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

You can select multiple comments in the Comments panel in Acrobat, but not in the way you’d expect. Let’s say you want to set the status of three comments to “Completed.” Your natural inclination would be to Shift-click or Command-click them, but it somehow doesn’t work like it does in other programs: even though you’re [...]

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Mysterious application failures caused by delocalization

Posted in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Apple, Mac OS X on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

OS X supports a large number of world languages, but if you only understand one language, you’re hauling around many megabytes of files you don’t need. Many Mac users try to free up some disk space by using a utility that removes versions of files for languages they don’t want. This has given rise to [...]

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Bridge CS2: Renaming files with the keyboard, whether you meant to or not…

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite, Digital Photography on January 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »

To rename a selected file or folder in Adobe Bridge CS2 without using the mouse, press the spacebar, type the name, and then press Return or Enter. (For Bridge CS3 and later, see the note at the end of this post.) If you pressed the spacebar without intending to change the filename of the selected [...]

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Back up important preferences files

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Mac OS X on November 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

When an application isn’t quite working right, sometimes the cause is a preferences file that’s gotten corrupted, so a common troubleshooting step is to delete an application’s preferences file. That’s easy to do, but with many of today’s more complex software programs, preferences are key to your workflow, and when you lose your preferences, the [...]

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Dr. Brown’s Place-O-Matic: Camera Raw color space not used?

Posted in Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography on September 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

If you use the Dr. Brown’s Place-O-Matic plug-in for Photoshop and the Space in the Adobe Camera Raw dialog box doesn’t seem to be applied to the Photoshop document containing the Smart Objects generated by the plug-in, change your Color Settings in Photoshop (Edit > Color Settings) before using Dr. Brown’s Place-O-Matic. Dr. Brown’s Place-O-Matic [...]

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Mac Pro: Why four hard drive bays are great for Photoshop

Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Apple hardware on August 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Apple announced the new Mac Pro tower this week. For a Photoshop user, the Mac Pro’s quad SATA hard drive bays are just as useful as the quad cores of the two Xeon CPUs. Why would a Mac Photoshop user need to use up four drive bays? Actually, it isn’t that hard. First, we know [...]

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“Folder not found” error when batch processing in Photoshop

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop on July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

If you try to run a batch process in Adobe Photoshop (either from Photoshop or from Adobe Bridge) and you get an error message that says a folder wasn’t found, here are some things to check: In the Batch Processing dialog box, look at the Errors section at the bottom of the dialog box. If [...]

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