I am half-famous: Moonshine2: The art of Scripting to make your own Distillery
Author: Nick Hodge
InDesign Word Import
pdated script (Javascript) for Importing Text files into InDesign CS:
Import Words into InDesign CS Dictionary
History for InDesign
For many, the History tool in Photoshop is the pinnacle of its elegance. History Tool for InDesign CS and InCopy CS
Groundhog Day in New Zealand
Literal Groundhog Day in New Zealand.
Fly to Auckland on 6.30pm flight Monday evening. Arrive at hotel at 12:45am. Up and awake at 6:00am for a 12 hour day of Acrobat 7.0 Roadshow. Mid-afternoon, the Skycity Convention Centre is evacuated after our room starts to fill with water and the fire alarms sound.
To the airport, and attempt to be smart by catching a 6:00pm flight to Wellington. Take off OK, and almost arrive on Wellington airport. About 50m from the ground, landing is aborted due to weather and we’re off back to Auckland.
Arrive Auckland 8:15pm, and placed on a rescheduled flight to Wellington. Within 10 minutes, this flight is cancelled too. We’re grounded in Auckland until the morning.
After some scrambling, we find a hotel (of sorts) and check in at 10:30pm. After 2.5 hours of email and reports, sleep for 4 hours and awake at 5:30am for an 8:00am flight to Wellington.
At the airport, and the 7:00am flight to Wellington is still waiting for weather clearance in Wellington. By 8:00am, we find out Wellington airport is closed until at least 4:00pm. Wellington this New Zealand trip is cancelled.
Three days, about 9 hours sleep.
Oh the glamorous life in the Jet-set.
History of the Mac
If you are a Macintosh afficionado and have a yearning to know where it all started, Andy Hertzfeld’s Folklore site is a must-see.
A long, long time ago – in a different time, I possessed a Macintosh 128K. The people and history here are like gods to me.
RSS from Acrobat 7
Slightly hidden feature of Acrobat 7.0: RSS Feed Monitor into PDF.
Travel: Tuesday, 14 December 2004
Sydney/Auckland/Sydney/Singapore/Sydney
Acrobat 7
Welcome Adobe Acrobat 7.0. Acrobat 7.0 Print, Prepress Features. Most requested feature after demonstrating Acrobat 3, 4, 5 and 6: Enable anyone with free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to use highlighter, sticky note, pen, and other commenting tools.. Using Acrobat 7.0 Professional, you can enable this feature in a PDF you send.
Remembrance Day: Thursday, 11 November 2004
November 11th. Remembrance Day
“Six out of ten industry professionals now use the Adobe product as their main layout program, according a Graphic Arts Service Association of Australia (GASAA) survey” InDesign cracks more than half the layout traffic in Australia in Print21 Online.
The data is from a GASAA survey: Adobe InDesign Usage Survey. Follows from from an August 2004 release: 96% of Australian service providers accept PDF files. Come to Australia to visit your layout, design and prepress future. It feels good to be a small part of this radical industry shift.
New Zealand Pilgrimages
Taking more Adobe people on a pilgrimage to the west-coast shores outside of Auckland: Mark Szulc, Paul Stephens and Nick Hodge in New Zealand. Previous travellers: Russell Brown and Nick Hodge in New Zealand and Tim Cole, Jane Brady and Nick Hodge in New Zealand