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Archive for April, 2003

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Dov

Tuesday, April 29th, 2003

Dov Isaacs as interviewed by PlanetPDF. A person who is to be respected!

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Adobe Mars and Print-ready PDFs
New York Times Reader Trumps Adobe Reader
CMYK to Grey

Dambusters

Sunday, April 27th, 2003

Watched Dambusters, a movie of the true story of 617 Squadron during World War 2. When you realise that the leader of the squadron during the war, Wing Cmdr Guy Gibson, was in his mid 20's (and sadly died later in the war) - and over fifty brave men died on this mission - it [...]

Italian Job

Saturday, April 26th, 2003

The Italian Job (2002) - maybe not as hip/cool compared to the 1960s original The Italian Job (1969) but still using MINIs!
Gordon Woolf, the God of all things PageMaker, including PageMaker scripting, runs Worsley Press - publishes a regular bulletin called Format.

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Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.

Samuel Pepys Online Diary

Friday, April 25th, 2003

For those interested in history, and read blogs Samuel Pepys Diary

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Meet David Melville Hodge. My Great-Great-Grandfather
First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.
Turing’s Cathedral

Cari Jansen online

Thursday, April 24th, 2003

Cari Jansen goes crazy with three more tips: Adobe PageMaker 7.x - Using the rotation tool, Photoshop 7.x - Cache & the File Browser and Photoshop 7.x - Amending File Browser width for palette well.

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Mr. McHugh

Stuff from the Web

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003

I don't know why, but this story appealed to me: Sumlock Anita Calculators
Interesting. PDFEnhancer from pdf Sages. It does some extra post-processing of PDFs to reduce their file size.
Lifesaver Find of the Day: DOM Browser

Had to do some FileMaker CDML for an internal web site. Needed to add some client side validation, so out [...]

We Love the (ex-)Iraqi Information Minister

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003

If you haven't seen this already: We Love the (ex-)Iraqi Information Minister

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Cari Jansen: More “stuff”

Monday, April 21st, 2003

Happy xth birthday, Avril! Readers will have to guess the x.
Cari Jansen has found some time to create her web site. She has already placed two techniques there: Adobe InDesign 2.x - Scaling and resizing images in InDesign and Adobe Illustrator 10.x - using appearance & styles to make a simple roadmap

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InDesign: Duotones into InDesign

Monday, April 14th, 2003

This has been in my head for a while: InDesign 2.0: Photoshop, Duotones into InDesign
In my time I have seen various 'complaints' that Adobe does not publish the specifications for the PDF (Portable Document Format) in a timely fashion - thereby gaining market advantage. Well, the Draft PDF Reference, Version 1.5 is available before [...]

brain packet loss

Friday, April 11th, 2003

brain fade. high packet loss. wireless network down. blaming bigpond, but found out rj45 wasn't reconnected correctly to airport.

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