Archive for August, 2002
PDF Generation
Friday, August 30th, 2002On holidays as of 5.30pm AEST. For the first time in 5 years, this holiday is going to be without connection to email and the mobile phone turned off. Now let's see how long I can go without the laptop and connection to the 'net.
Tools and Strategies for Automatic Generation of PDF Files on [...]
InDesign 2.0 Prepress Issue
Saturday, August 17th, 2002Another interesting InDesign 2.0 discovery this week. I'll write up a document about this once I get my head around the implications - and can create some relevant screen dumps.
Many RIPs (and not just older RIPs) have significant performance issues with images that are rotated, scaled (especially in different % in X and Y [...]
InDesign 2.0: Painting Pictures with Picket Fences
Tuesday, August 6th, 2002
18th September 2008: Gary Spedding has an update for later versions of InDesign: http://spedsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/floating-frames-effect-in-indesign.html
I arrived home today and my cable modem connection to the internet was down. Thanks Bigpond! Bummer. Hmm, may this is a good time to noodle around with compound paths in Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2.
Making/releasing compound paths is a feature that [...]
InDesign 2.0: Photoshop with Spots, InDesign and Composite PDF
Tuesday, August 6th, 2002Visit the new InDesign Prepress Section: Adobe InDesign: Prepress Techniques
The holy grail with InDesign 2.0 and its support for spot/special colours is the complete replacement of DCS as an input file format.
DCS was invented to permit applications such as Photoshop to create a pre-separated file and place into QuarkXpress. Quark then didn't need [...]
Photoshop 7 File Browser Automatic Numbering Technique
Sunday, August 4th, 2002
The File Browser added to Photoshop 7 is a great tool for managing your digital images. This is especially the case for digital camera photographs and assisting in renaming the files into something more intelligible than the "P100198.JPG" that various operating systems force upon us.
The File Browser permits renaming of photos using typed in text, [...]
Adobe Tips
Sunday, August 4th, 2002As promised, I am starting to document the techniques shown at the recent Adobe roadshows
Illustrator 10: Illustrator 10: Making Good Text Go Bad. Photoshop 7: Photoshop 7 File Browser Automatic Numbering Technique
Apart from writing the above articles, I decided to noodle around with the GD library that is a part of PHP4. GD [...]
Illustrator 10: Making Good Text Go Bad
Saturday, August 3rd, 2002Large companies have spent many years and millions of dollars ensuring that computer-generated text looks great.
Sometimes, we've got to roughen the text up. Make it look more natural. Remove the clinical accuracy of computer generated type. Here's a technique using Adobe Illustrator 10's Transparency and Warping features to make text look bad.
Step 1: [...]
