Preview
Printing Problems in Acrobat 7
Acrobat 7 can highlight
many potential problems
with PDFs you intend to
print. If you choose Advanced>
Output Preview…,
Acrobat can show
you areas that will overprint,
as well as areas that and character swashes that
are no longer chopped-off
at the edge of a text box.
Palette Sets: save locations
and states of open palettes
into named sets, to instantly
create a workspace suited
to pagination, artistic
design, text editing, etc.
Sets can also be specified to
automatically open when a
particular user logs in.
Palette Groups: similar to
but quite different from
Adobe’s docking palettes,
these intelligent user-made
groups expand and contract
as you use their features,
staying out of the way while
giving you clear access to
any of their content.
Palette Snapping: palettes
can snap to the edge of your document, either inside or
outside the scroll bars, to
avoid obscuring them.
Searchable Invisibles:
every invisible character,
such as regular spaces and em-spaces, can be searched
for and replaced.
Measurements Palette tabs:
dozens of adjustment panes
are available under tabs in
the Measurements Palette.
Tabs Pane: one of these
panes lets you drag and
drop tab settings onto
your document. A moving
vertical guide helps with
placement.
Unicode & OpenType
support: 23 common
OpenType features are implemented.
A special
Glyphs palette shows alternate
glyphs for your
currently-selected character,
and lets you save favorite
glyphs in sets.
Font Fallback: if your chosen
font doesn’t contain a
particular glyph used in
the text, that character can
be automatically replaced
by a similar font containing
that glyph, rather than
displaying an open-box
character.
X-Ray Magazine Mar/Apr 05, pg.30
Tip
2
Ways
to Force Startup from a CD
Holding down the C key
during startup is supposed
to force your Mac to start
up from the CD or DVD in
its optical drive. Often, that
doesn’t work, so here are
some other ways to do it:
• During startup, hold
down the Option key instead.
At the resulting window,
choose your CD or
DVD as the startup volume.
• During startup, hold
down the Shift, Option,
Command and Delete
keys. This should force
your Mac to bypass its
hard drive and look for
any other volume with
Mac OS on it.
• Insert the CD or DVD
while Mac OS is running,
choose Apple Menu> System
Preferences…> Startup Startup
Disk and then select
your CD or DVD and
restart your Mac.
Be sure to wait for the
startup chime before using
any of these key combinations,
and to use a CD containing
a version of Mac
OS X that is at least as new
as the version your Mac
shipped with — earlier
versions won’t work.
MacFixIt.com
Tip 3
Control
Alignment in Illustrator
By default, Illustrator’s
Align palette aligns to the
item located farthest in the
direction of the alignment
choice you make (top, bottom,
left or right). To align
to a different object, select
all the objects, then click
on the object you want to
align to BEFORE clicking
on an alignment button.
David Creamer
Tip 4
How To Copy & Paste
Between Illustrator & InDesign
To successfully copy and
paste vector objects from
Illustrator to InDesign and
back, you need to tell Illustrator
to copy objects in
its native AICB (Adobe Illustrator
Clipboard) format
rather than PDF format,
and you need to tell
InDesign not to “prefer”
PDF when pasting from
the clipboard. To set these
preferences in Illustrator,
choose Illustrator> Preferences>
File Handling &
Clipboard and enable the
AICB checkbox under the
Copy As: option (disable
the PDF checkbox). Also
click the Preserve Paths radio
button. In InDesign,
choose InDesign> Preferences>
General and diston, able the Prefer PDF When Pasting checkbox.
Tim Cole
Tip 5
A Better Outline Mode
When working in Illustrator’s
Outline mode, all
graphics display at their
most basic: paths and boxes.
If you would like to
maintain most of the
speed of working in Outline
mode, but still see
your placed images, choose
File> Document Setup and
enable the checkbox
named Show Images in
Outline Mode. Your placed
images will then appear in
low resolution when you
work in Outline mode.
PC Graphics Report 05/05, pg.9
Tip 6
Don’t Crop, Trim!
After scanning line art,
and sometimes after working
with illustrations,
you’re left with unwanted
white space around your
subject matter.
Accurately cropping it out
can be tedious and time consuming,
or you can use
Image> Trim in Photoshop.
As long as the area
you want to remove is either
transparent or a solid
color, Trim will instantly
crop the canvas down to
exactly where the illustration
begins.
PC Graphics Report
Tip 7 Scroll All, Zoom
All in Photoshop
If you have several windows
open for one document
in Photoshop CS,
you can scroll or zoom all
of them at the same time.
This is tremendously helpful
when you’re editing details
of an image yet want
to see the bigger picture at
the same time. Here’s how:
select the Hand tool, and
enable the Scroll All Windows
checkbox in the Options
bar. Then, when you
scroll one window by dragging
the grabber hand, all
windows will scroll. To
zoom all windows, select
the Zoom tool, enable the
Zoom All Windows checkbox
in the Options bar,
then zoom any window.
How do you open several
windows for one document?
Choose Window>
Arrange> New Window
for (document title).
Fix
1 Adobe
Reader 7.0.1 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.1
The Adobe Reader 7.0.1
Update and Adobe Acrobat
7.0.1 Update “provide
improved security and
support for hyperlinks to
PDF files in Microsoft Office documents. It also addresses
known issues associated
with forms
workflows, 2D barcodes
and viewing PDF files that
contain 3D content.” The
update is available in each
application through their “Help> Check
for Updates Now” menu item.
Fix
2 Photoshop
& Save For Web
If, when saving a Photoshop
CS file using File>
Save For Web, you see the
error: “Could not complete
this operation. The
file is not found”, launch
Safari and choose a default
Web browser. Photoshop
checks for your default
Web browser before saving
a file for the Web, and if
none is specified, it fails.
Fix
3 QuarkXPress 6 & Making PDFs
If QuarkXPress begins
crashing when you ask it
to make a PDF, try throwing
away this folder: Applications/
QuarkXPress
6.x/jaws/ttfont. The “ttfont”
folder holds a cache
of fonts that the Jaws PDF
engine uses to distill PDFs
for QuarkXPress. Also, if
you find anything in the
jaws/temp folder, throw
that away as well.
Benjamin Levisay www.fontgeek.net Fix 4 QuarkXPress 6
Font Menus
If the Font menus in
QuarkXPress 6 don’t display
some of your active
fonts, try throwing away
this folder: Applications/
QuarkXPress 6.x/jaws/ttfont.
The “ttfont” folder
holds a cache of fonts that
the Jaws PDF engine uses
to distill PDFs for Quark-
XPress, and it can sometimes
cause confusion in
the Font menu.
Benjamin Levisay www.fontgeek.net
Fix 5 QuarkXPress 6.5
& Font Substitution
If after upgrading Quark-
XPress 6 to version 6.5,
one or more fonts stop
printing properly (substituted
by another font,
etc.), try disabling these
XTensions: FontDownloadingXT
and FontRetrieveXT.
These XTensions
handle QuarkXPress’s
ability to let you purchase
and download fonts from
Quark. You can disable
XTensions by choosing
Utilities> XTensions Manager
within QuarkXPress.
www.fontgeek.net
Fix 6 QuarkXPress 6
Installer
Some users report that installing
QuarkXPress 6.1 or
6.5 into the Applications
folder changes the permissions
for thousands of files
in the Applications folder
so that some applications
will no longer work. If this
happens to you, just use
the Repair Permissions feature
in Disk Utility to automatically
fix them. To prevent
this problem, create a
new folder on your hard drive before installing
QuarkXPress 6.1 or 6.5, install
into that folder, then
move the new Quark-
XPress folder into your Applications
folder.
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