Tip 1
Tiger = Free Scanner
Upgrade?
Some users are
discovering
that after upgrading to
Mac OS X 10.4, the buttons
on the front of their scanner
will automatically
launch Image Capture, the
image capturing application
included with Mac OS
X. You can then make scans
using Image Capture and
even program the buttons
to launch other applications
(such as Photoshop)
or hand off the scan to an
application (such as Mail).
Tip
2
Tiger & Sharing Files
in Mac OS 9
Mac OS X 10.4 still
uses AppleTalk,
but not in the same
way as previous versions of
Mac OS X.When printing,
AppleTalk still works as expected,
but because Tiger
no longer uses AppleShare
over AppleTalk, if you want
to share files from a Mac
running Mac OS 9, you
need to enable file sharing
over TCP/IP. Here’s how:
Go to the Mac running
Mac OS 9 and click on the
Apple menu.
Choose Control Panels>
File Sharing
Click “Enable File Sharing
clients to connect over
TCP/IP”
Close the File Sharing
Control Panel.
Tip 3
Use Summarize to Clean Text
One clever way to remove
all the extra formatting
and bits of stray text from
content you copy from a
Web page is to use Apple’s
Summarize feature. Summarize
is a “Service” available
to applications that
support Services, which includes
most of Apple’s applications,
Omni Group’s
products and Bare Bones’
BBEdit. Here’s how to do it
in Apple’s TextEdit: copy
the data from a Web page
or other highly-formatted
source. Launch TextEdit
and paste the data into it.
Choose TextEdit> Services>
Summarize. In the
resulting window, drag the
Summary Size slider to the
100% mark to keep all the
text, then copy and paste it
into your destination.
Macworld 06/05, pg.82
Tip 4
Avoid “Archive and Install”
If you use either
the “Archive and Install” or “Erase and Install” features
when you upgrade to a new
version of Mac OS X, you
will have to reactivate
Adobe’s CS2 apps, Quark-
XPress,Macromedia’s products
and many others. So,
we recommend using the
default method of upgrading
Mac OS X. If you have
trouble, you can “Archive
and Install” later, but the
vast majority of users have
no problem with doing this.
Tip 5
Instantly See Previous View
in Acrobat
In Acrobat,
the thick, solid
arrows at the top of the
toolbar or in the status bar
at the bottom of the document
window (not the triangles,
but the arrows) let
you instantly jump back
and forth from where you
are now to where you previously
were in the document.
That is, if you're
currently viewing at 200%
on page 3, but you got
there by clicking a link on
page 1 at 100% view, the
Previous View button will
take you to page 1 at
100%. Use it any time to
retrace your viewing path
through a document.
Tip 6
Safely Replace Pages in PDFs
It can take a
lot of work to
add bookmarks, hyperlinks,
article threads, etc.
to a PDF. Inevitably, some
portion of the PDF needs
to be edited in its original
application, and the revised
pages must be replaced
in the PDF. Fortunately,
Acrobat will retain
these interactive elements
from the original PDF if
you replace its pages with
pages from your revised PDF. Just create your new
PDF, open your old PDF,
choose Document> Replace
Pages, select the appropriate
pages, and then
save this new version. The
original interactive elements
will apply to the
new PDF, in exactly the
same locations.
Tip 7
Easy Crop Marks in Illustrator
Illustrator CS can create
crop marks around any object
or rectangle. To create
crop marks around a selected
object or objects, select
the object(s) then choose
Filter> Create> Crop
Marks. Crop marks will
surround the smallest rectangle
that could be drawn
around the selection. These
crop marks are editable.
To create crop marks
around an arbitrary area
of your choice, use the
Rectangle tool to draw a
rectangle over the area,
then choose Object> Crop
Area> Make. To print only
this crop area, choose
File> Print, then select
Setup from the list on the
left, then choose Crop Area
from the Crop Artwork to:
pop-up menu.
You can’t select or edit
these crop marks, so to remove
them choose Object>
Crop Area> Release.
The crop marks will disappear
and the original rectangle
will be selected. (Yes,
even though you have no
object selected, you go to
the Object menu.What’s
up with that, Adobe?)
Tip 8
How to Downsave
InDesign CS2
Documents
To save an InDesign CS2
document in a format that
can be read by InDesign
CS, choose File> Export,
rather than File> Save As.
Export the document in
the InDesign Interchange
Format (INX). As long as
the older InDesign CS has
been updated with
Adobe’s InDesign CS 3.0.1
April 2005 (CS2 Compatibility)
Update, it will be
able to recreate the document
from the INX file. Of
course, any features exclusive
to CS2 will be ignored.
Tip 9
Drag Text & Tables
from Word to InDesign
We’re all familiar with importing
text into a box on
a page, but InDesign also
lets you drag text and tables
from a Microsoft
Word document directly
onto an InDesign document
page. If you want to
maintain the formatting of
the Word text or table, just
be sure that InDesign’s
Clipboard preferences are
set to Preserve Text Attributes
(in InDesign> Preferences>
General…).
Tip 10
Photoshop
CS2 &
>1GB RAM
If your Mac has more than
1GB of RAM, you can increase
the performance of
Photoshop CS2 by activating
its Bigger Tiles plug-in.
To do this, just remove the
tilde (~) at the beginning
of the name of the ~Bigger
Tiles plug-in, found in Applications:
Adobe Photoshop
CS2: Plug-Ins: Adobe
Photoshop Only: Extensions.
Then relaunch Photoshop.
The Bigger Tiles plug-in
tells Photoshop to use
larger chunks of an image
when calculating changes.
By default, without Bigger
Tiles activated, the maximum
size of each tile is
132 KB. If you assign from
261 MB to 1 GB of RAM in
the Memory & Image
Cache preference in Photoshop,
the tile size increases
to 260 KB. Likewise,
if you assign more
than 1 GB RAM, the tile
size increases to 1 MB.
After you activate the Bigger
Tiles plug-in, Photoshop
takes longer to draw
each tile and may appearto draw images more slowly— especially large images
or when applying certain
filters. However, the
total time Photoshop takes
to display the entire image
is less because it has fewer
tiles to draw.
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