Woohoo! Now I am officially an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in InDesign 2.0 and Acrobat 5.0.
Author: Nick Hodge
Dov
Dov Isaacs as interviewed by PlanetPDF. A person who is to be respected!
Dambusters
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 makes you realise that the generations before us paid a significant price for our freedom and way of life. The most surprising revelation is how many of those who died in this squadron were Australians.
Italian Job
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.
Samuel Pepys Online Diary
For those interested in history, and read blogs Samuel Pepys Diary
Cari Jansen online
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.
Stuff from the Web
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 with the Javascript again. I always stumble over the DOM.
We Love the (ex-)Iraqi Information Minister
If you haven’t seen this already: We Love the (ex-)Iraqi Information Minister
Cari Jansen: More “stuff”
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
InDesign: Duotones into InDesign
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 Acrobat 6.0 ships! Whilst this is a Draft version, and subject to change, it does go to show that we are a friendlier company than some people claim.
Now, at 1107 pages in length – its not going to be a read for all of us!