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Archive for June, 2003

Crazy in the US

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

A crazy week in the US later, and home again. Somewhere in the last week, this site reached 200000 page views. Back to work tomorrow.

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Phone works in the US

Sunday, June 22nd, 2003

For the first time, and on my 20th trip to the US, my mobile phone works in this country. Woohoo! 19 of the 20 trips have occured in the last 10 years, which also about how long I have used a mobile phone. In that time, my phone has never worked here. India, UK, [...]

Piha

Saturday, June 21st, 2003

Arrived in the US. Again. Managed to take a side trip on the way to Auckland airport to the prettiest place in the world: Piha, June 2003. This scenery is less than 1 hour away from Auckland International Airport.

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NZ Jet Planes

Friday, June 20th, 2003

I am in NZ, and have stocked up on Pascall Jet Planes. Hmmm.

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Illustrator is NOT a layout tool

Wednesday, June 18th, 2003

Repeat after me: Illustrator is not a layout tool. It is an illustration tool. InDesign is a layout tool.
Now Mac Users repeat after me: Use file extensions. The +95% of the world don't use a Mac, and even MacOS X prefers them...

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Making Compact PDFs Using Acrobat Distiller

Monday, June 16th, 2003

Making Compact PDFs Using Acrobat Distiller
Portable Document Format (PDF) files are a defacto standard for publishing complex documents on web sites. Forms, visually rich brochures and long documents are presented in PDF form. Due to the ease of "printing" to a PDF generating Printer such as Distiller or PDFWriter rather than totally regenerating [...]

Moonshine: Distilling PDF into JPEG using Scripting

Monday, June 16th, 2003

Distilling PDF into JPEG Photoshop 7.0's scripting

Problem from a customer: they create many, many PDFs for both client sign off and delivery as final form documents. However, they need a mechanism of permitting their clients to "preview" the PDFs online before downloading for signoff.

So, out with the newest Adobe application on the block: Photoshop [...]

Bad Voice Roadshow

Monday, June 16th, 2003

It's Monday, and my voice is still missing in action.

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Roadshow

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

Roadshow over. Good to see you all, again. Long time between drinks! Oh yes, my voice has definitely gone.

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Adobe Technical Stuff

Friday, June 6th, 2003

All sorts of cool technical Adobe stuff
Five days. Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth. Tired.

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