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4T.25 Colour Range

This often-overlooked method of selection (and it has been around for quite a while) has some new functionality in CS4; this episode looks at both and the first (CS3) section should work as far back as Photoshop 7! If you want to find out more about the Shuttleworth Collection, please visit their website. … Read entire article »

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4T.20 Language Layers

PDF’s have layers? Since when? Why didn’t I know that? These are all remarks that i hear quite often and the answers are usually along the lines of: They can; Since Acrobat 6 (2003); Because you haven’t invested in any training, probably. All joking apart, my mission in this episode is to wake you up to the possibilities that layers have inside a PDF, and how you can export them from InDesign; whether it’s a multilingual version of a document, or the plans for the kitchen extension you were going to have before the credit crunch hit, you can make an engaging layered document really easily. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Acrobat, InDesign, Podcast

Try Acrobat Online

Try Acrobat Online

Adobe have introduced a new way to try out Acrobat without installing the software on your system – in fact you can use it directly inside your browser. You’ll need a broadband connection and be able to accept two harmless plug-ins – you’ll also need to allow pop-ups (although you could limit this to the Adobe site, I suppose). You can’t save or print from the demo or upload/download any files, but if you’ve … Read entire article »

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Subscribe to this blog – in Acrobat

Subscribe to this blog – in Acrobat

A little known feature of the Review Tracker in Acrobat is that it has a news reader built in (no, not Huw Edwards, you silly – but a small application that you can use to subscribe many different news services and blogs from within it) and of course convert them to PDF for easy archiving and even easier searching later. To subscribe to this blog go to Comments > Review Tracker… - when the tracker … Read entire article »

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Batch Process For An Easy Life!

Batch Process For An Easy Life!

The question that this entry relates to comes from Kevin, who recently switched on to Acrobat’s Header and Footer feature, and now wants to add a simple header and footer to several documents stored on a folder on his hard drive; a task which is made fairly simple by using Batch Processing. Go to Advanced > Document Processing > Batch Processing and you’ll be presented with a dialog box – note that there are several presets … Read entire article »

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