Toward the end of my Photoshop classes we cover saving images for web, and I tell a not-so-amusing anecdote of how someone lost a design gig because they did not know the proper uses of JPGs vs. GIFs and PNGs. In that particular case, the client needed a very small file size web graphic that …
Yearly Archive: 2011
Dec
05
2011
Nov
12
2011
Update to the CS5.5 Book Page Numbering Bug (Still no fix, but additional workarounds posted)
This post is a follow-up to my original article concerning the infamous Book Page Numbering Bug. It was recently brought to my attention that, while I had attempted to keep my post from 6 months ago up to date with updates and responses to many comments, it was becoming rather dated. So today I once again …
Nov
11
2011
New Site Navigation, Search, Subscription
I’m happy to announce several improvements to the site today, including improved navigation, search, and subscription widgets! Category-based navigation: I’ve removed the old tag cloud widget and created a new category structure for all articles. The new category navigation widget shows only the important article categories and omits categories like “Administrative” (which would include posts …
Nov
10
2011
IDUG meeting today
Today’s InDesign User Group Meeting today will be an open Q&A. It starts at 6:30 PM. We’ll have the online Connect room available for those who can’t attend at PSU in person. For more info visit http://indesignusergroup.com/chapters/portland. Also, I’m restructuring the site categories so that I can use them for navigation. I’ll soon be installing …
Nov
02
2011
Fixing Dull Skies in Photoshop with Gradient & Color Overlays
This post began as a response to a post in the Linked In Adobe Software Users Group. Rich Harrington had posted a tutorial on fixing blown-out skies, in which he selected the sky using select by color range and then replaced the original sky with another image of sky. But what if you want to keep …
Oct
25
2011
Acrobat 10.1.1 Bug? “The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document…” UNSOLVED
Edit 11/25/2011: After hours of troubleshooting and starting completely over from scratch with fresh PDFs from InDesign, the problem happened again, implying this is most likely a bug with Acrobat Pro 10.1.1. I was able to get one of my two files finished without any problems, but the second one gave the error when I …
Sep
29
2011
Zipping EPUB Contents on Windows & Macs
My main point in posting today is to correct an inaccurate statement I had made several months ago concerning how one would compress an EPUB using Windows. Since I work primarily on a Mac, I had made the statement based on what I had read on other sites, but recent testing has proved those sites to …
Sep
28
2011
Problems Accessing Site from Some Networks
In the last couple weeks I’ve experienced at least two cases of difficulties accessing the Creative Progression website from within certain large local area networks. In both cases, the CP website has been online and active, and as far as my hosting company and I have been able to tell the problems are related to …
Sep
23
2011
Case Study: a Data-to InDesign Workflow in which Smart Catalog Lite Excels
Update 10/4/11: I’ve been in communication with Mark Haden and Ian White of 65Bit, and they’ve informed me that while the Lite version of EasyCatalog, which costs $300, does not support the Pagination Module, it does include simplified pagination options. To quote from Ian’s message to me: Instead of the spreadsheet-style view of the data …
Sep
19
2011
Drop Caps in EPUBs
Update 10/4/2011: A reader let me know that the code excerpt on safalra.com did not work for them, so I’ve tested it for myself. There is a bit more to the Safalra.com code than seems necessary to my somewhat inexperienced eye; when I tested it I also had difficulties with it in both Firefox and …
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