PDF specialist UNIVERSE Software GmbH based in Solingen, Germany, has announced pdf-FieldMerge LIB, a solution for software developers for filling out PDF forms from their own applications while selectively retaining form functionality. Most other printer driver-type PDF generators produce PDF files that lose their form functionality and do not support editable form fields. The new […]
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Giving advertising and mobile industry executives a chance to share the stage with the likes of David Bowie, Al Gore, and Prince, The Webby Awards today kicked off its 12th annual call for entries with eight new categories honoring interactive advertising and mobile content. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by The New York […]
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Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) is creating a wave of color for the office with five new multifunction products and printers, including two that feature a breakthrough in solid ink technology that for the first time makes color printing as affordable as black and white. The product rollout includes the Xerox Phaser™ 8860 color printer and […]
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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced two major upgrades to its digital photo and video software for consumers: Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 6 for Windows® & Adobe Premiere® Elements 4 for Windows. Tight integration and a shared Organizer, with a common database accessible from either application, allow users to do more with their photos and videos. […]
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One of the coolest features in InDesign CS3 is the ability to place more than one object at a time. For example, if you select four images and three text files in Bridge or in the Finder (or Windows Explorer) and drag and drop them into InDesign, the Place cursor gets “loaded up” with all […]
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This is the last installment in the back-to-basics-and-on-to-advanced “Tab Leaders” series. If you’ve been following the series, we began by inserting tabs and dot leaders in columnar text (Part 1); moved on to formatting tab leaders differently than the text they separate (Part 2); created in-line, fill-in-the-blank-style tab spaces (Part 3); used the automated formatting […]
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Quite a few people ask me if there is some way to make fillable text fields in InDesign. Sadly, the answer is no. While ID can easily create interactive buttons, there is no way to make fillable text fields, in, for instance, a direct response coupon. The best answer is to create the document in […]
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Many people don’t realize that InDesign has a Change Case feature in the Type menu (or the Context menu). For example, you can select some text that someone TYPED IN ALL CAPS and change it to lowercase, Title Case (all words are capitalized), or Sentence case (only the first letter in each sentence is capitalized). […]
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Today, Layers magazine unveiled Layers TV, an exciting new weekly podcast featuring the latest Adobe® Creative Suite tutorials, as well as reviews, news, contests, and more. Informative, educational, casual, and sometimes irreverent, Layers TV is ideal for anybody that uses the Adobe Creative Suite, and is looking for inspiration or the latest techniques. Hosted by […]
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