Tip 1
Drag-and-drop
Email Attachments
In Mac OS X, you can
quickly and easily attach a
file to a new email message
by dragging the file
onto your email application’s
icon in the Dock.
Even niftier, you can drag
the document icon from
an open file’s title bar (just
left of the document’s
name) to your email application’s
icon. Eudora,
Entourage and Apple’s
Mail all support this.
Tip
2
Symantec Kills
Norton Utilities
for Macintosh
Symantec has stopped development
of future versions
of Norton Utilities
and SystemWorks for
Macintosh. Norton AntiVirus,
Internet Security
and Personal Firewall are still being developed.
Symantec claims the decision
was strategic and not
based on the product’s
success. Norton Utilities 8
and SystemWorks 3 will
still be sold and supported
as long as product demand
is high enough.
www.symantec.com
Tip 3
Apple Profits Up,
iPod Sales Skyrocket
Apple’s second quarter net
profit was $46 million, up
from $14 million this time
last year. iPod sales increased
909%, while Mac
sales were up 5%. Apple
shipped 749,000 Macs
and 807,000 iPods. iPod
sales would have been
even higher if Hitachi had
been able to meet hard
drive supply demands.
This is Apple’s third
straight quarter of doubledigit
revenue growth.
Tip 4
How to Share Printers
If you have a printer attached
to a Mac running
Mac OS X, you can share
it with other Macs running
either Mac OS 9 or
X. Here’s how: on the
host Mac, enable Printer
Sharing in the Sharing
panel of System Preferences.
Any printer attached
to that Mac will
now be available to other
Macs on your network. To
use the printer from another
(client) Mac, first be
sure that the driver for
that printer is installed on
the client Mac. After that,
as long as the host Mac is turned on, the printer
should appear in the
Chooser (Mac OS 9) or
Print dialog box (Mac OS
X). Choose it and print!
Tip 5
Upgrade Advice:
Repair Permissions
Before updating Mac OS
X to a new version, it’s a
good idea to do these
things first:
| 1. |
Run Disk Utility (in
the Applications/Utilities
folder) and click the
Repair Permissions button
for all hard drives. |
| 2. |
Run Alsoft’s Disk Warrior
on all hard drives. |
| 3. |
Repair Permissions
again. |
After upgrading, Repair
Permissions yet again.
You’ll be surprised what it
finds.
Two more tips: it’s also
useful to Repair Permissions
before and after installing
a new application.
Also, Repair Permissions
and run Disk Warrior before
moving an external
hard drive from a Mac
running one version of
Mac OS X to a Mac running
another version of
Mac OS X.
www.alsoft.com
Tip 6
Quick-Load Colors
in FreeHand
In FreeHand, you can instantly
load a color swatch
into the Color Mixer by
Option-clicking it in the
Colors palette.
Lock/Unlock
in Illustrator
In Illustrator, if you select
an item or items, you can
then lock all the unselected
items by pressing
Command-Option-Shift-
2. To unlock everything
on the page, press
Command-Option-2.
Dave Cross
Mac Design May/June 04, pg.32
Tip 7
Lock/Unlock
in Illustrator
In Illustrator, if you select
an item or items, you can
then lock all the unselected
items by pressing
Command-Option-Shift-
2. To unlock everything
on the page, press
Command-Option-2.
Dave Cross
Mac Design May/June 04, pg.32
Tip 8
Text-Selection Tips
for InDesign
To select all the text from
the insertion point to the
end of a story in InDesign,
press Command-Shift-End
(assuming your keyboard
has an End key). To select
all the text from the insertion
point to the beginning
of the story, press
Command-Shift-Home.
www.fluxconsulting.com
Tip 9
Gradient Lines
in QuarkXPress
In QuarkXPress, any item
can be converted to another
shape through the
Shape submenu of the
Item menu. This feature
also applies to lines, so
you can convert a line into
a narrow box and then fill
it with a gradient!
David Blatner
Tip 10
Fix a Color Cast
An easy way to detect a
color cast in an image in
Photoshop is to use the Info
palette. Place your cursor
over an area you know
should be neutral, such as
a white, gray or black area.
If the RGB values in the
Info palette are not equal,
you have a color cast. To
fix it, go to Image> Adjust>
Levels and from the
RGB pop-up menu, select
the color with the lowest
value in the Info palette.
Move the center Gamma)slider until the the color’s
value matches the middle
value. Then do the same
for the color with the
highest value.
Bug Fixes
Fix
1
Mac OS X 10.3
Creates Bad
PDF/X-3 Files
Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
has a hidden ability to create
what Apple misleadingly
calls PDF/X-3 files
from any document. Unfortunately,
these are not
true PDF/X-3 files (neither
Acrobat 6 nor PitStop Professional
certifies these files
as correct PDF/X-3 files).
For production-quality
PDFs, see if your application
has the ability to export
directly to PDF, and
do that instead. If not,
create a PostScript file and
process it through Acrobat
Distiller.
Fix 2
Zip Drives & Mac
OS X 10.3.3
Some people are having
trouble mounting Zip disks
after upgrading to Mac OS
X 10.3.3. Iomega is working
on an update to address
the issue, but do not have a
release date. In the meantime,
here’s a workaround:
Do not leave Zip disks in
the drive while your Mac is
sleeping or starting up. If a
disk does not mount, manually
eject it and try again.
It should mount correctly.
Do not log out with a
disk in the Zip drive.
