A PDF Creator Altternative

Can’t afford paying for the full-blown Acrobat Profession Program because the price but do need to create PDF to send to people which can be opened in both PC and MAC platforms? Here’s a alternative way. Try SourceForge.net’s PDF Creator, which it acts like a printer driver, pretty easy to use.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projectss/pdfcreator

It can turn any documents into fully compatible PDF files. What you need to do is just to install PDF Creator, and after just simply select the file you wish to convert to PDF …to print menu follow by selecting the PDF Creator as your printer, and finally select the drive and folder to hold the file and save.

Adobe CS4 Launch - Agenda

Program schedule on that day.

Adobe CS4 Lanching...

Hi, guys&gals, there is a fantastic Adobe CS4 launching at Shangrila on November 11, 2008. Feel free to register and hope to see you all there, especially to my students.

Click the link below to find in more details.
http://adobe.vintedge.com/seminars/cs4_launch/index.html

InDesign tips to share...(Part II)

Great way to make table's text or cell selection
Click the cell with the Text tool and press the Esc key to select a cell
within a table. To press the Esc key again, this will select
and highlighting the text within the cell.

Acrobat - The powerful tool for you to know...

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Illustrator tips to share..

Show/Hide Bounding Box
Here's a shortcut to show and hide the bounding box (Command-Shift-B; PC: Control-Shift-B). The bounding box is a great way to resize objects without switching to the Scale tool. But do sometimes the bounding box is very distracting, so the option to toggle on/off is quite a useful tip.

Locking/Unlocking Guides
By default, all guides that you add to a document are auto-locked. To unlocking all the guides in one quick step, press Mac: Command-Option-; or PC: Control-Alt-;. To works opposite: Once you've unlocked all the guides, use the same shortcut to lock all guides.

Quick way to delete from the palette
To delete anything from a palette, without getting a dialog like this example asking you to confirm your choice, hold down the Mac: Option key or PC: Alt key as you click on the palette's Trash icon. This applies to brushes, swatches, layers, etc.

Timing is a key factor
One of the important principles of using keyboard modifiers is that the same key will have different effects, depending on when you use it. For example, with the Direct Selection tool (A) active, holding down the Option key (PC: Alt key; MAC: Option key) will select the entire path. If you don't let go of the Option key while you drag and move, you'll get duplicate. So, to move a path without duplicating it, hold the Option key while pressing and click to select the path, release the Alt/Option key before dragging the path and move.

Switching palette's view
Most of the Illustrator palettes have more than one display size, reason for users to save more working space without closing palettes. Multiple sizes in some cases. You can use a palette's flyout menu to choose Show Options or Hide Options, or just to double-click on the tab at the top of each palette. To see if a palette has multiple sizes, just keep double-clicking on the tab to switch among the views size.

Photoshop tips to share...

Optimizing Performance
To reduce start-up time -There are several ways help to launch Photoshop more quickly.
1) Disabling unnecessary plug-in folder by adding tilde(~) in front of plug-in folder.
2) Relocated plug-ins to secondary folder (easier to be done in Mac OS platform). Then, to load back plug-ins, just hold down Ctrl+Shift (Windows), Cmd+Shift (Mac OS) immediately after you launch Photoshop and then specify the additional plug-ins folder when asked.
3) Preferences dialog are saved each time you exit and launch Photoshop. The file sometimes are saved may become corrupted. If that happens, just hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows), Cmd+Opt+Shift (Mac OS), a split second after you launch Photoshop and choose to delete the Preferences when prompted.
4) Layers,Channels and Paths palettes all store thumbnails by default, these thumbnails are continually updated as you work on the image. A way improve the redraw time, you can customize the palette previews size to smaller one by clicking at Palette Options from the palette’s menu choose the smallest on none in size.
5) As we know, in the computer processor basically work as brain, and RAM more likely as heart. All the software in our computer, from the operating system to applications are relied heavily on how much RAM in order to improve the efficiency and speed. To allocate higher RAM in Photoshop, go to Preferences/Memory & Image Cache and specify a percentage (%) in the Memory Usage section of the dialog box.