Monthly Archive for December, 2005

Illustrator Tutorials

Free Illustrator tutorials with original source (ai) files.

Force Objects to Locked or Hidden Layers in InDesign

InDesign If you rely heavily on layers in your InDesign documents to help manage and select the abundance of objects in them, you may have become irritated when you wanted to temporarily stash objects into a locked or hidden layer. InDesign makes it seem as though you can’t move objects without first unlocking and/or unhiding your destination layer. But it turns out you can force the objects to any layer you want; regardless of it being locked or hidden.

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Adobe launches Motion Design Center

Adobe launches their Motion Design Center.

Photoshop and Illustrator CS2 meets Adobe Flash and Dreamweaver 8. A hint at things to come.

Quark acquires ALAP

Quark acquires ALAP So I wonder what happens to ALAP’s InDesign plug-ins now.

Disable Snap to Grid in a snap

Disable Snap to Grid in a snap

Adobe acquires Macromedia (Edit > Company > Merge)

Merge Company Well, it finally happened. A part of me didn’t want to believe it would ever happen but it looks as though it has.

Combined company to deliver software platform that redefines how people engage with digital information. Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia

Be sure to look over the FAQ for additional information though laden with marketing speak. I like trying to read between the lines of what they’re not saying. Acquisition FAQ

If you read through the acquisition faq (or read between the lines rather), you’ll find Dreamweaver mentioned over GoLive. In fact they go on to use it as the brand naming example: Adobe Dreamweaver. They also decided to not use contentious examples in the Creative Solutions products being mentioned in the “such as”: Illustrator, GoLive, etc.

Again, I may be reading a bit too much into all this but it is interesting none the less.

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