Easier Folder Moving
In Mac OS 9 and X, you
can change the location of
an open folder without
having to open the folder’s
parent folder.With the
folder’s window open,
drag the little icon in its title
bar to your preferred
location. That’s it!
Tip
2
Font Parade in QuarkXPress
This one’s fun: in Quark-
XPress, you can view selected
text in each of your
installed fonts by pressing
Option-F9 on your keyboard.
Each time you press
Option-F9, the text will
display using the next font
down on your font list.
Shift-Option-F9 takes you
up the list.
Tip 3
Copy & Paste Files in Mac
OS X
In Mac OS X, you can copy
files and folders from one
location to another by using
the Copy and Paste commands.
Just select a file or
folder, press Command-C,
navigate to the location
where you want the copy to
go, and press Command-V.
Of course, you can also
Option-drag the file to its
new location, but that requires
having both locations
visible at the same time.
This technique doesn’t.
Tip 4
OS X Screen Captures in TIFF
Format
Mac OS X 10 saves screen
captures in PDF format
only. But, you may then
open your screen captures
in Mac OS X’s Preview application,
and then resave
them in any file format
supported by QuickTime,
including TIFF. For more
control, use Grab, a free
utility in the Applications/
Utilities folder that can
capture a selection, a window,
or your full screen,
with an optional timer so
that it can capture a
pulled-down menu, flyout
menu, your pointer, etc.
Tip 5
Why Get
a Laser Printer?
A good PostScript laser
printer costs as little as
$299 (for example, the
Brother HL-5170DNLT)
but a good inkjet printer
costs the same or less. So
why buy a laser printer?
Here are two reasons:
• Prints from a laser printer
cost much less than
from an inkjet printer—
only about 2¢ per page
when you add up all the
costs, including the printer
and its toner. If you print a lot of black-and-white
pages, this really adds up.
• If the laser printer includes
PostScript (as the
one above), your prints
will look exactly as they
will look when your files
are printed on film or
plates – even if they contain
placed EPS files.
Tip 6
Free Wireless at Apple Stores
Every Apple Store provides
an open AirPort network
with broadband Internet
access. You can access your
email or browse the Web
from the comfort of the
chairs and couches conveniently
placed in many of
the stores. Its 24-hour-aday
availability is really
handy for email and
downloads while traveling
— sometimes even outside
the store at night.
Tip 7 Browser Tips
In most browsers, you can
move backward or forward
through previously visited
pages by holding
Command and pressing
the Left Arrow and Right
Arrow on your keyboard.
In Safari and Microsoft Internet
Explorer, you can
also press Command and
click on the text in the title
bar of a window to see a
hierarchical list of the
pages on that website that
lead back to its home page. Tip 8
Extract Images Embedded
in Illustrator
Usually, it’s better to “link”
a picture to a document
than to “embed” it into the
document. Adobe Illustrator
provides multiple ways
to accidentally embed images,
but no easy way to
extract an embedded image.
The easiest way to extract
an image is to copy it
from Illustrator, then in
Photoshop choose File>
New. Photoshop will automatically
size the new document
to fit what’s on the
clipboard, and you can
then paste the picture. This
retains the original image’s
size and resolution.
Tip 9
Ways to Embed
Fonts in EPS Files
In most cases, when you
export or save a document
to EPS format, its fonts are
not embedded into the
EPS file. So, you must send
the fonts along with the
EPS if you want another
person to be able to print
it. One way to embed fonts
into any EPS file is to either
create a PDF document
from the original
document, or process the
EPS through Acrobat Distiller
to create a PDF. Then
open the PDF in Acrobat
(not Acrobat Reader), and
choose File> Export or
File> Save As… and
choose the Encapsulated
PostScript format. Be sure
to click the Settings… button
in the Save As dialog,
and enable the Font Inclusion
checkbox in the General
settings. While you’re
there, enable Include Preview
and choose TIFF. The
resulting EPS file will have
its fonts embedded in it.
Tip
10
Better
Conversion from QuarkXPress
to InDesign If you have trouble converting
a QuarkXPress 4
document into InDesign
CS, be sure the Quark-
XPress document is as
pristine as possible. To do
this, make sure that none
of its graphics are missing
or modified and that all its
fonts are active, then create
a new QuarkXPress
document of the same size
and drag the pages from
your old document to the
new document. (To do
this, change both documents’View
percentage to
Thumbnails, select all the
pages in the old document
and drag them into the
new document. Then delete
the extra page in the
new document.) Then, use
this new document for
converting into InDesign.
Even so, some features
from QuarkXPress don’t
come across. For an explanation
of conversion issues,
failure strategies and unsupported
features, go to
www.adobe.com/search/ and
search for Knowledge Documents
321f6 and 20b2a.
Moving to InDesign Blatner,
Smith & Werner, Peachpit Press Tip 11
Avoid
Show-Through in Scans To avoid having your scanner
pick up text from the
back side of the paper
you’re scanning (this is
called ghosting, or show through),
place a sheet of
black paper behind the paper
you’re scanning. The
black paper absorbs the
light that would otherwise
shine through the paper.
Fix
1 Apple’s .Mac is
Undependable
As much as we admire and
appreciate the capabilities
of Apple’s .Mac program,
including file storage,
email, easy Web pages,
etc., we can’t recommend
.Mac for safe storage of
data, or for reliable email
service. In recent months,
Apple has disabled Mail
service for hours or days at
a time. Their 12-hour “maintenance” downtime
on January 23 resulted in
empty iDisks for many
people. It’s such a shame.
Fix 2 Fix for Safari 10.3.7
Slowdown
Photoshop CS &
Norton AntiVirus
If you have Norton AntiVirus
9.0 with the November
2004 update installed,
Adobe Photoshop
CS documents may be
damaged. Photoshop displays
this message: “Could
not complete your request
because the file is not
compatible with this version
of Photoshop” and
the document is permanently
corrupted. To stop
further corruption, either
run the Norton AntiVirus
Live Update to get the latest
virus definitions, or
disable Norton AntiVirus
Auto-Protect. Our recommendation
for graphic design
professionals is to disable the automatic protection
option in any antivirus
software you
choose to use. Historically,
it has conflicted with
graphic applications’ ability
to manage their files.
Fix 3 QuarkXPress & Illustrator EPSes
The main reasons to save an
Illustrator document in EPS
format with the “embed
fonts for other applications”
option enabled is for
cross-platform document
editing. However, if you do
embed the fonts, then when
printing that EPS from
QuarkXPress 6.5, XPress
may report that fonts are
missing even though the
document then prints correctly.
In addition, XPress’s
Collect For Output report
doesn’t include fonts in
linked EPS files that have
their fonts embedded. (It
does report fonts in EPS
files that don’t have their
fonts embedded.) So, in a
prepress workflow, it may
be best to not embed fonts
in EPS files unless you expect
those files to be edited
on another platform.
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