texts: Why are some pages not numbered in Adobe Indesign CS6?

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I have 2 pages (that I've discovered so far) that do not have page numbers on them. I have already applied page numbering to the master pages, and all the other pages have page numbers. To show you this, I put the page numbers on a separate layer and hid all the other layers so the only thing you can see are the page numbers. I put the numbers on the bottom outside corners of each page. In the screenshot, on page 11 and 12, there are no page numbers, even though you can see them on the corners of the previous pages (you can't see the number but you can see something there, see red circles). I can't figure out why this happened and how to put the numbers back. The settings are already 'allow pages to shuffle', and the system knows its pages 11 and 12 but won't display the numbers.

In case it is relevant, I made the cover page i, and the first left hand page 1, and the right hand page 2 etc, so each left hand page is and odd number and each right hand page is an even number.

EDIT
I have found the solution thanks to Lucian, it was to go to the master pages, right click and select "Apply Master to Page..". However, I wanted to add some more detail because 1) I want to know and 2) might be useful for others.

Anyone know how and why this happened? Does it happen to new pages you ad after applying master pages to all pages? Say I have 100 pages and I apply the master page layout. Then I decide to add 2 more. Will this happen again to the 2 new pages?

Also, I found this effect before I fixed the problem:

I was trying to add a watermark to all the pages by adding text to the master page when I found this on the 2 problematic pages. I put 2 lines of text on the master pages, on the top and bottom so it appears on each page. The screenshot shows the bottom text on the bottom half of the top page, and the top half of pages 11 and 12. It was very strange that only on those pages, part of the text has overlapping pages. Why is this? Do I have a second artboard or something I don't know about or can't see?

Note:This problem went away after I updated the "master page apply to" function, but would be nice to know why it happened.

Also the pages aren't blank, I just hid the layers to show the errors more clearly.


texts: Can I have different dynamics for different tools? (GIMP)

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I've just started to use GIMP as I can't afford to get Photoshop and I've been trying to set it up for a bit of drawing (which is a huge pain) and I've run into a problem with the eraser. I've got a dynamic which allows for GIMP to sense my Wacoms pressure which is wonderful with the brush but I don't want this affect to be used with the eraser.

Personally I want my eraser to completely erase what I select rather than dim it so I was wondering if anyone knew a way to make the brush and eraser tools use different dynamics.


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So I used a normal screenshot (630x1136) from an iPhone and I dropped into the PSD file. I tried so many ways but the image on the phone looks pixelated. Do you know how do I make make look good?

So, I'm working on some Key Visual for a Landing Page which the dimensions are: 450x3000px (so the image that you see extend to the sides). I'm using Photoshop CS6 for Mac. I bought this mockup here. And first I just replaced the screenshot and looked awful and then I converted the image to smart object and after it rasterized after I scaled "by hand" and looked a bit better. (being honest I tried out without knowing what I was doing but look better but not perfect)

Hope that helps to understand my issue.


texts: Make A Convincing Ball Rolling Animation

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I plan on creating a mobile game in which the player controls a rolling ball. I created a "sprite sheet" of the ball in question along with a couple "leaning" frames that for some reason I thought were a good idea, but I'll most likely remove. My problem is that as an amateur I can't think of a way to convincingly show the ball rolling. I've looked at other games with red balls and they all just rotate the sprite, creating an unconvincing effect where the light spot rotates along with the edge of the ball.

Is there any way I can animate this ball rolling, or will I have to add a feature to the ball (maybe a horizontal stripe) that can be seen rotating?

Thanks for reading my stupid question.


texts: How do I export a crisp icon from Illustrator?

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I have created an icon in Illustrator that I would like to use as an emoji on Discord and Twitch. I exported it as a 2031 × 2002 image and uploaded it to Discord.

When I use the emote on Discord (top pic) it gets resized automatically to 32x32, and it looks nice and crisp. Twitch, however, asks for the image to be uploaded at the specified resolution (28x28) rather than doing the resizing itself.

If I use Illustrator to export for web at 32x32 resolution, or if I try to resize the image in GIMP, it results in the bottom image.

Why do the two not look the same, despite both being 32x32?
How can I get a 32x32 (or, 28x28, for Twitch) PNG that is as crisp-looking as the top one? (either directly via Illustrator, or resizing an exported .png in GIMP/Photoshop)?

Edit: The top image, when I save it, has an original resolution of 128x128px. However, it is definitely being downscaled to 32x32 when it is being displayed in Discord (the white box is a 32x32 image in GIMP for scale).

So what I don't understand is how does it look good when the 128x128 image is downscaled to 32x32 on screen, vs having a 32x32 image to begin with, and is it possible to achieve this effect with a native 32x32 png? I am a photo/image/editing novice, so this might be something very obvious that I'm missing!


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I've been asked to create some kind of montage using Photoshop and the whole concept revolves around some kind of explosion. So I've gathered all of my elements and positioned them in their places, but somehow it doesn't feel like they're moving. I'm using a duplicated layer of each element and applying a path blur to simulate movement but so far it doesn't feels like it. Any good advice to solve a problem like this?

Thanks ;)


texts: Why is my Illustrator drop shadow blocky?

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I'm sure this is an easy fix but I dropped some JPGs into Illustrator and when I try to add a shadow the shadow completely doesn't match the shape of the image. It's really wavy. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help.


texts: Indesign script to add HTML tags based on character styles

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I have an InDesign document with text styled as one of the following custom character styles throughout the document:

character-bold
character-italic
character-bolditalic
[none]

I am trying to write a script to scan the entire document and wrap each text of a particular character style with the appropriate HTML tag, except of course the text without any assigned character style. Thus, the following text:

The quick brown fox jumps right over the lazy dog.

...should look like:

The quick brown fox jumps right over the lazy dog.

Is this doable? I am sure it is. I don't mind using some kind of GREP/Find-Change method if possible. I don't want to use "Export to HTML" because there are some custom tags that won't show that way.


texts: Illustrator CC eyedropper samples wrong color through mesh in outline mode

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I am working on a video tutorial with a gradient mesh. I'm trying to color it realistically according to an image file.

My bottommost layer is a template layer with a JPG picture to trace or sample color from. My topmost layers contain the mesh art.

As per the tutorial instruction, my eyedropper is supposed to sample color from the template upon clicking on an anchor point of the mesh in outline mode (cmd+y). The mesh layer is active and we are coloring each anchor point in the grid. Instead, my eyedropper selects the blue color of the anchor point/mesh selection display color.

Any suggestions on how to make the eyedropper select objects/attributes in the background behind the selection marks?


texts: RGB to CMYK conversion of mid-grey colour

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I have a logo which has been designed using RGB colours. Part of the logo is in grey and the colour use for this is a middle grey, R127, G127, B127.

Several online colour scheme generators convert this to C0, M0, Y0, K50. e.g. https://coolors.co/7f7f7f-7f7f7f-7f7f7f-7f7f7f-7f7f7f

This makes sense to me at it is 50% black ink.

Photoshop however converts to C50, M39, Y39, K21.

Photoshop is configured with:

RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39 (ISO 12647-2:2004)

As far as I'm aware those are the defaults - I've not consciously changed them. I'm based in the UK.

What is the reasoning behind each conversion method, and which would be the best to use when sending a CMYK version of the logo to a commercial printer?


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We're experimenting with using Ubuntu Condensed as our website's primary font. The non-condensed Ubuntu font has too much width, and feels splayed out. Previously, we were using Signika.

It's sometimes recommended not to use a condensed font as your primary font, so we're considering other comparable options. Can anyone recommend non-condensed fonts with a look that's comparable to Ubuntu, but which are narrower than Ubuntu Regular? Alternatively, is it fine, in terms of legibility and other considerations, to just go with the condensed variant?


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Do I have to do something "special" to get the Color -> Color to alpha menu option to work in GIMP? I am trying to convert a background color on a GIF image to transparent by converting the background color to an alpha channel but the Color to Alpha menu option is not selectable.

I've gone through the GIMP documentation and it looks pretty simple :-) I must be missing something rather obvious here!


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I've been googling this subject and also searched in this forum, all I found were posts about removing semi transparent pixels, ie. not what I have a problem with.

Basically, I've added a layer to my image that has the same size as the image. Then I add something to the layer, way smaller than the entire image. Now I want a quick way to "auto crop" the layer so that the layer only spans over the pixels that actually contain something.

In GIMP I choose Layer -> Auto crop layer. But there doesn't seem to exist such an action in Photoshop. Does anyone know where I can find this tool?

EDIT : Ok this is pretty much the scenario.

I have an image that consists of a lot of layers. On a certain part of that image I want to create a magnifying effect. So

temporarily I flattened the image
copied a circled area
undid the flattening
pasted the copied circle on to a new layer

now I want to use: Filter -> Distort -> Spherize to give it a magnified effect. However, the spherize effect affects the entire size of the layer and not only where the content of the layer is. This makes the circle that I pasted not the centre of the sphere but rather the lower right corner of the sphere, resulting in a totally different effect than wanted.

I hope this clears the issue up.


texts: Photoshop to render CAD data to photorealistic images?

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Has anyone experience in rendering CAD data to photorealistic images by using Photoshop? I know that Blender can do this, but Blender is quite complicated.

Do you know what programm is best in terms of image qualitiy and usability?

Additional information:
I currently have a i5 with a GeForce 950m running Win10. This might not be the best hardware for this job, but my company could buy better hardware. We could spend 1000 € for rendering software, but we are looking for free software like blender so that we can easily install it on more than one machine so that other colleages can take advantage of it. We have ca 40.000 articles that we want to render. So there should be some sort of batch processing.


texts: Is there an easy way to establish which Variation Sequences a font supports?

texts: I am looking for a method or a script that would allow, on a large scale, determine the Unicode SVS and IVS supporting capabilities. For instance, I’m in need of a font supporting a Moji Joho sequence <4E0E,E0104>. I could just manually check any of many CJK fonts I have until I find one, but is there a not time-consuming method? Is it possible to somehow make a list of all instances of “character, selector” sequences that have characters encoded?


texts: What software should I use to design infographics?

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I am designing an infographic for a charity but I'm unsure whether InDesign would be better than Photoshop even though I have little experience in it.
I would be happy to learn though.

What would you use also any tips would be great.


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I'm having some trouble with a vector image I downloaded from shutterstock. I'm trying to lasercut a Christmas present for my cousin. I need to be able to get an outline of the vector image (it's composed of many parts) so that I can cut the shape out of acrylic then engrave the details on that cutout. I can easily do this once I can get an outline. I have access to inkscape, corel draw and adobe illustrator, and have tried various combinations of combining parts, tracing images, taking unions of vector paths, but none of them work. Suggestions?

In the picture below, (a) is two different vector paths. I'm trying to get (b), which is one vector path.


texts: Why does Illustrator CS6 "Save for Microsoft Office" use PNG format?

texts: I recently made some graphs in Illustrator CS6 to insert into a MS Word document. I created my original images using the Print profile with PPI set to 300. I used the "Save for Microsoft Office" option to export the images for Word. Why does this option create a PNG file (with a resolution of 150) as opposed to using, say, TIFF or EPSF format? I'm just curious.


texts: Where should I put the shadows and highlights on these antlers?

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So I made some antlers in Illustrator and now I want to add some shadows and highlights. Unfortunately, I've never been good at figuring out where to put them. My brain has a hard time comprehending it and I can't visualize it well. Could you help me out? It's hard when I don't have a light source showing me! Thanks.

(Also, if you have any tips to help me figure it out better that'd be great!)


texts: Inkscape: Joined pentagon and hexagon with fixed edge length

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I'm trying to create a shape formed by a regular hexagon and a regular pentagon that are joined by shared edge.

The problem is that the polygons made my the polygon tool are very hard to align. I've tried the connector tool, which seems to align everything nicely, but as far as I can tell requires nodes.

Is there a good way of doing this within Inkscape? Otherwise, I will just write a script to make an svg containing the appropriate shapes.

This is what happens if you try and use the polygon tool - alignment mayhem:


texts: Is it worth learning the SVG path attribute, or should I use a tool for drawing?

texts: Is there an advantage of manually creating the graphic with the path element and d attribute (I guess with the help of math?), over using a tool like Inkscape to draw the graphic? Does Inkscape generate more inefficient SVG code?


texts: Why image saved as Photoshop DCS 2.0 color appear reddish compare to normal PSD file?

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I want to create a duplex printing which the back label need to be save as C1, M1, Y1, K1 channel (multichannel). The question is why did the image color shift to be more reddish look when saved as Photoshop DCS 2.0?

These are my steps in creating the multichannel:

I copy the Cyan channel, then I go to new spot channel on the
dropdown menu, rename the channel as C1, edit the color to Cyan 100%,
then paste it on the new spot channel. Then I repeat the same step to
the remaining M,Y & K channels.

I really appreciate your wide explaination. There's so many usefull information i get..tq so much :)

But if it because of the color profile would this explain the reason of color shifting?

This is the screenshot of PSD different.left (normal psd), right (psd dcs 2.0)

Then i tried place this two in Adobe illustrator. The color likely have no different.

and this is when i rip the file onto HP Smartstream L&P Print Server 5.2


texts: Why does the Noto Sans Korean font file have Chinese characters?

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If you download and expand the full Noto Sans font you will find separate OTF files for "CJK" Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.  The files have a two-letter section in the filename for the target language.  "jp"="Japanese"; "kr"="Korean" and "sc"="Simplified Chinese".

NotoSansCJKjp-Light.otf
NotoSansCJKkr-Light.otf
NotoSansCJKsc-Light.otf

When I open the Korean file, I see that the simplified Chinese characters are in the file.  It also appears to contain Japanese characters.  Why is this?  If there are separate files for each language, why is there any overlap?


texts: Inkscape: problems with pattern along path

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When I make a path in Inkscape and create an object (triangle), I can't seem to get it on the path I created.
This is what I get after pattern along path:

I never seem to get it on the path. Can anyone help me? I scaled the triangle before the pattern along path, when I don't change the dimensions of the triangle the pattern along path goes perfectly but I don't want an equilateral triangle.
Thanks for looking into my problem.


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Whenever I use larger documents with multiple layers I always run into the problem of not having enough colors to label my layers.

Is there a way to get more colors for these labels? I've searched high and low for a way or maybe a plugin but it appears there aren't any. Am I the only one with this problem? Or is there a more efficient way to label layers?

I'm currently using Photoshop CC btw. Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to automate updating the same image in a large number of InDesign Documents?

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I need to update one image in a large number of InDesign documents with a new image.  I'm hoping there is a way to batch automate this process, similar to find and replace.

Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: Identification of a lively style of hand lettering from around 1900

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I have come across a certain lively style of hand lettering on some old postcards that interests me. I have only two examples:

The full images can be seen here and here.
The images are from Copenhagen in Denmark and dates back to around 1900-1910. The texts are clearly handwritten. Perhaps etched in some way and added to the images sometime during development of the images.
Although the letters look a little different in the two examples and are written in both regular and oblique style, they seem to follow the same principle. The letters have different baseline and height, but in a consistent way.
I'm interested in learning more about this "font". I doubt it has a proper name, but it would be nice to see more examples. I've searched for "art nouveau", "art deco", "jugend" and more, but have been unsuccessful in finding similar handwriting.
Ideally I would like to find examples of all letters and numerals written in this style so I can recreate it digitally.

Edit
After posting this question I actually managed to find the name of the publisher of those old postcards (Fotografisk Forlag which means Photographical Publisher in English). That enabled me to find a lot of images of postcards from the same series. I've cut out the texts, cleaned them up and gathered them here:

The lettering is a bit inconsistent and in varying quality, but there is still a clear pattern.
So now I actually have examples of all numerals and letters except Q, W, Z and Å (which didn't exist at the time the postcards were printed anyway).
However, I'm still interested in:

Knowing if this style of lettering has a name.
Seeing other examples of similar writing from that period.
Finding the missing letters Q, W, Z and Å (and other characters).
Finding a digital font in similar style.


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I am designing a shirt logo. I have extensive experience with screen printing on paper, but I am unsure about a few things for shirts. Can I print a highlight colour over a darker previously printed colour?

I am used to printing from light to dark on paper, but am I correct that I could reverse that on shirts? For example, if the image were a STOP sign, could I print the red and then the white on top?

You lose fidelity with the inks that I use on paper, so I would normally do this with white first and then red over top (just as an example of a very basic image).

Thank you very much for the help!


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Illustrator doesn't care about selected layer. I can directly pick objects from any layers. I want Illustrator pick object within only selected layer.

I learned Photoshop interacts only selected layer.

Can Illustrator behave like Photoshop's layer interaction?


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Ok, I tried searching for this but did not find anything relevant. I am facing a weird issue in Photoshop. When using the Distribute Tool, the elements align in a weird manner.

Here is an example -

I have made 5 identical rectangles on top of each other.

Now, I moved the top layer away from the stack and applied horizontal and vertical distribution on the stack.

As you can see, the manner in which the shapes distribute themselves is kinda bizarre.

In an ideal situation, I expect the shapes to be distributed evenly between the top layer and the bottom layer. Here, the distribution is way off.

Does anyone have any clue as to what is happening here?


texts: How to send a file from Adobe Draw to Illustrator?

texts: I've the updated version of Adobe Draw on my iPad Pro and Illustrator on my MacBook Pro. If I tap the drop-down-menu in Draw to send my file over, there is a loading icon until a small window pops up: 'sent!' But nothing happens on my MacBook in Illustrator. Also there is no way that I have two different accounts connected. What else could it be?


texts: Color changes after exporting to PDF from Illustrator

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I used 'Save a copy' in Illustrator to export *.ai as PDF files, only to find the color changed unexpectedly. Original color is CMYK(0,0,0,95) but it has a red hue when viewed in Acrobat.

I have read this question: CMYK colours wrong on export in Illustrator. However, my Illustrator file is already in CMYK mode and I did choose not to convert the color in export settings (actually enforcing CMYK color in configuration made no difference).

Same problem exists when I open the PDF with Foxit Reader or Windows in-built  reader.

I'm wondering, does the problem affect printing or only result from a screen glitch?

In Illustrator:

In Acrobat:

Thanks to @GoofyMonkey, I understood the problem was because Illustrator displayed the inaccurate color.

By the way, I am sort of curious about why 100K appears slightly red, instead of slightly blue or other color? Is that an intrinsic characteristic of CMYK or only some problems relating to showing CMYK colors on sRGB screen?


texts: How to Create Angled Screenshots of Mobile Screen on Sketch 3

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Anyone know of an easy way to create angled Mobile Screenhots on Sketch 3 like the image below?

Pretty sure if I transform the image to proper angles and add shadows I can do the same thing but I was wondering if there was some type of automatic 'Skew' technique like in Photoshop.


texts: How to see all chars in a font from FontForge

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I have a pfm/pfb font called Chanakya which I know contains characters outside the 0-255 range eg. (\u2022 has अ). I know this because I can programmatically display the character's code:-

But FontForge shows only the first 256:-

Forcing the encoding from Encoding > Force Encoding > ISO-10646-1 (Unicode Full) shows all the positions but the glyph isn't there:-

How can I force FontForge to show me those as well?


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I am someone who is not a designer, but tries to make a decent visit card for himself.
Naturally, I struggle with formatting my phone numbers on it.

One number is French, and it looks like:

  +33 XX XX XX XX

The other is Russian, looks different:

  +7 XXX XXX XX XX

I am not sure whether they look fine or not on the card. How can I improve their layout aesthetically?

P.S. Any other advises will also be greatly appreciated.


texts: InDesign: suddenly Update TOC deletes everything

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I had a document I was adding text to, with a TOC. I updated the TOC several times, everything was OK.
Then I realized a chunk of text in the document wasn't in its place, so I cut and pasted it in the right place.
Then I clicked "Update TOC" and everything after the TOC title disappeared. The entire document.
I tried undoing and redoing the update, I tried reopening InDesign, I even tried returning the text to its previous place. I tried erasing the TOC and re-adding it. Nothing.
What is happening?


texts: Recommended Body Font Size for Print Magazine?

texts: I am working on a print magazine in InDesign with a smaller than normal layout: 169mm x 239mm - which body font size would be recommended for this layout size?  I have tried using 8pt for the body size but at this time it appears to be too big.


texts: how to embed a single word through out a logo?

texts: Please can anyone help me how to implement this effect in the text. Kindly help me with this. I have been trying but I can't get it to work.


texts: PSD to Al in order to create a vector file?

texts: Is it possible to create a logo in  Photoshop and then open the PSD file in Illustrator Al without flattening the layers and then saving it as a PDF and then it is in a vector format?


texts: Restoring transparency lost when a single color image was overlaid on white

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I have an image that is a logo; a word written in a single solid color but the edge pixels of the letters originally had some transparency
The original was lost and now all I have is a version of it that has a white background. This image is thus predominantly either white (RGB html code #FFF, say - appreciate it would be #FFFFFF but using 3 characters for brevity/clarity) or pure red (#F00, say) but the edges of the letters have a band of pixels that are somewhere in between, such as "very white reds" #FEE or #FCC down to "very red reds" like #F22 or #F11
I wonder if there is a process that can paint the whole image as red #F00, but have an alpha component that is "how proportionally close to white the pixel was" or said another way "where the pixel color falls in the range #F00 to #FFF, determines how transparent the red needs to be (when laid on white) to look like the pink it does now"
I know how I'd do it if I had to code it up myself in C# (basically the maths of the above, to work out where the G and B values fall in the range and use that as the alpha component percentage), but is there anything out there technique wise that can "find and replace my red-with-white pixels" with "their equivalent red-with-transparency pixels" ?


texts: Fonts of PDF look different in Preview (made in InDesign CS6)

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I am making an interactive pdf in Indesign CS6, using Quicksand (from Google fonts) as main font. In InDesign, at 100% view, everything looks fine and the text is easy to read. (left text in the image below)

However, when I export to pdf and view it in Preview, the text in the pdf looks much lighter and is therefor not so easy to read anymore. (text to the right) In Acrobat and Safari the pdf looks fine.

Can someone please help me out with this? The pdf is for digital use, so I would prefer to make it look the right way in Preview as well. Is there something that can be done, or should I just take the loss?

Thank you!!

p.s. Here are some try-outs with different types and colours


texts: Is it possible to export In design template for web re-use

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I have some templates of business card designed with "In design".
Those templates are generics with markups (name email ... )for merge data from Xls document with window -> utility -> data merge feature.

The question is : Can I export those template in JSON or XML output to use them in a website model list (like vista print or similar) ?

Once a customer filled those field required, I can easily call "In design" to map data into the template and print the business card... the hard part for me is to understand how to export my designs from in design into the website.

I draw a schema to show what the part of my workflow is missing (red bubble)

I saw in "In design" that we could export in XML but this is a pain in the ass to proceed to markup each single element. I want to know if exists some scripts or plugin / add-on for doing those things


texts: How do I ensure that my graphic design will not be blurry when I use it online?

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I work with adobe illustrator, but I am not a formally-trained graphic designer.  I have been able to make a pretty decent business for myself.  Recently, I have begun working alot with website maintenance.

I am also asked to send the designs I have done to customers for use on their internet sites (facebook, etc).  Although I am able to resize for proper fitting for thumbnails and what-not, the designs end up looking blurry sometimes.

When I put a photo up on the website, it looks great.  When I put a design I made in illustrator, it looks blurry.  Please help!  I have been trying to find an answer, but I just don't know.

I know it's because I'm not formally trained.  There are just some of these help sites that I don't understand all of what's being said.  Is there any "laymen's" directions someone can give me?


texts: Photoshop: How to draw a guide with an exact distance from another guide

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Before drawing, I want to draw all guides for my layout. For example, I have a guide line named A already. After that, I want to have another guide named B  parallel with guide A and at 50px distance from it.

I have three solutions:

Draw line B and by "some way", I can see the current distance directly when I'm drawing, so I can make the distance exactly what I want it to be.
Draw line B. And then I use the Ruler tool to see the distance between the two guides. This method has disadvantages: maybe the ruler line that I draw isn't perpendicular with the guides and I'm not sure when the distance is enough.
There are other clever ways, that help me get this job done fast and easily, but that I don't know yet. I think Photoshop should support this feature.

What is the best way to achieve this?


texts: Illustrator Adding Weird Lines to Logo on Dark Backgrounds (Not Stroke)

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I have a logo symbol that has several intersecting lines. In Adobe Illustrator (CS6), slight gray lines are being added at the intersection points.

I haven't noticed it in other artwork, it only seems to appear on black (dark) backgrounds. There is no stroke.

Any idea what this is?


texts: How to create a new glyph = letter + ogonek in InDesign

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I've got a font, which doesn't have polish diacritic chars which I need. I'm trying to construct them, by merging two glyphs - a letter and ogonek or acute accent, which are provided by my font.

I can insert any of them separately, and I can make any glyph to be inserted instead of any letter, but I haven't found any way of merging two glyphs together into a new one (for example aogonek from a and ogonek). Could you help me?


texts: How to set different color to guides(Ai,Ps,Id,Fw)?

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I've been working on this file with a lot of guides(in Illustrator) and at some Point I was wondering is there a way to give different color to guides ? Like the gutter guides to be black, the main layout and columns guides to be green, some other guides I've done while placing other content a different color...

Is that posible?

The workaround I found so far is to make a "guide" layer and draw lines after the existing guides and give them different colors and then lock the layer, but It would be nice to use the default guides and stuff and as it is a quite simple thing I'm thinking this already exist but maybe I just donno about it. (I know in very Adobe Software(PS,AI,ID you can set a main color for all guides, I am looking for custom color for each guide).

If that is not possible, how do you work when you have a lot of guides and want to know which guide stands for what? I kind of keep the boxes I created to make the guides around  the canvas, but its not so efficient sometimes...have a look at the screenshot to see what I mean:

Thank you


texts: Fill gap between two (irregular) objects in Inkscape

texts:
I have two shapes:

I want to connect them like this:

How can I do this?


texts: Can we call graphic / web designers “typographers”?

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Since graphic or web designers focus on typography and different ways to treat the typeface, can we call them typographers?

Graphic and web designers spend significant time on choosing the typeface, pairing fonts, making text readable, legible and even more which comes under typography. Especially when dealing with text-heavy projects.

I’m talking about those who use appropriate typographic principles and treat the text in effective way in graphic and web designing.

According to my knowledge: designing the typeface is called type design and the art of using type is called as typography. I believe this is true and some people are confused with these two terms (supporting link).


texts: Select only image in layer around selection

texts: Here is my current situation. I am trying to select the selection inside via CMD+SHIFT+L so I can move the gold coins around a bit. But I don't seem to be able to do so. Select -> Float seems not select it either.


texts: How to create a vector (SVG) with XML Code?

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I recently saw an icon on the web, a stepper motor image:

but when I click "View image" it sends me to the page http://www.nemsim.com/ece395blimp/fritzing/parts/svg/core/icon/Stepper_Motor_-_Bipolar__icon.svg, which shows the XML code for creating the image, I suppose.

How can I recompile this code to create a normal SVG out of it? Or what is the deal with this?


texts:
I have a piece of sheet music i want to wrap around a vinyl center art
whats the best way to do this in photoshop that maintains legibility


texts: Downsampling images when they are produced, or in the final document?

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I work with documents mixing text and bitmap images, for which the final format is a PDF file. Most of the times, I produce my own graphics, which means that I have a choice of:

Creating all bitmap images at very high resolution, embed it in the document, and post-process the final PDF document to downsample all images to my target resolution (say, 300 dpi).
When I create the bitmap images, export them at a size consistent with the target resolution and intended size, then include them in the document (and no need for downsampling later on).

The second option has one major downside: it means that if I change my mind later (e.g., I want to include an image at twice the original size), I have to recreate the bitmap image file. It's not a very big deal, but still. Because, I cannot see any downside to the first option, that's what I regularly use.

My question is: how do you arbitrate between these two options? Do you always work with overly high resolution images, and downsample everything as the last step?


texts: Adobe XD - can't grab green box of overly transition

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I'm trying to do an overlay graphic that shows up when an element is click. to do that i'm drawing a transition arrow between two artboards. The main artboard is the design of the page itself, the second artboard is a little edit button popover. when i go to drag the position of the overlaid element, it isn't grabbable. it shows up as a green box, but i can't click it.

how do I position that element for the overlay transition?


texts: How to create a distortion effect in the middle part of a text?

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I'm a real newbie in design and I need to make a logo. For that I'd like to reproduce a pretty simple effect I saw on Pinterest but I can't find out how to do it. If someone could tell me which tools to use I'd really appreciate it.

Here is the logo I'd like to reproduce with my own typo (a real simple box logo type font) my question is about the little deformation effect on the letters :

I can use Adobe tools or others if you have some to suggest me, so you can just tell me the easiest way I'll find out how to get it. Sorry if this question has already been asked I didn't find it but I'm not english speaking so I might lack the keywords for it.


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I'm designing a scientific illustration where I'd like to show the fastness and slowness of a moving electron. Here in this attached picture, I show the electron path. I want to show that electron slows down when it enters and moves within the highlighted region. Please share if you have any ideas or images from which I can get inspired from.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to add readable text paragraph on background with mixed colors in Illustrator 2020

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Can you please explain how to add readable text paragraph to background with various colors ? When background and foreground colors match then words or phrases are not distinct. I need readable text on such backgrounds.
Thank you.


texts: Illustrator: How to select a colour range

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You know how you can select individual colours? And you can go to the select menu, and click select fill?

I need to do that but for a colour range.

Say for instance, you trace a photograph and expand it, and you want to remove a red stamp from the image (the expanded trace). You can select a red bit, and select, select fill, delete, or paint transparent, or set opacity to 0%, but you're still left with bits and pieces of different shades of pinks and reds.

You can sometimes just reduce the complexity of the trace so there's fewer colours or whatever, but that distorts the whole image.

I've tried just selecting a range of colours simultaneously by holding shift and clicking objects with the selection (U) tool. but it didn't work that way.


texts: How can I search for a unicode character if I'm not sure it exists?

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I'm looking for a Unicode character that will be as similar as possible to the Avengers logo. Even without the circle. Anything that will hint at that logo for people who know it

I'm not sure something like this exists, how can I go about searching for it?


texts: Color shifts in EPS file (Adobe illustrator)

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For logo design I select colors using HSB slider in Adobe illustrator (CMYK colorspace). When I save it as vector EPS file and view it in EPS viewer there is color shift.

Is there a way to embed ICC profile to vector EPS file in Adobe illustrator. If not how to know if the colors will print correctly.


texts: how to independently transform points without other points moving in photoshop

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I am trying to learn photoshop by myself and while trying to do a project I came across a problem. I have an upside down triangle, so that the tip of the triangle faces down.

now I want to add a sort-of square to the bottom, so that the blue on the box touches the blue on the triangle, green on the box touches the green on the triangle, and the pink bit stays exactly where it is. Is there any way to do this?

------ATTACHMENTS---------

TRIANGLE :: http://s8.postimg.org/hg7bpfpo5/triangle_down.png

DOTS :: http://s15.postimg.org/6wzufwn7f/pro.png


texts: Apache Licensed Fonts embedded PDF, include license? Where?

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I'd like to use an Apache licensed font in a PDF I'm generating for a press. The printers (reasonably) require full embedding. The PDF doesn't go anywhere other than the printers.

As I read Apache 2.0, there are certain things which I do with Apache licensed IP which would require the distribution to include the Apache license. Attribution is fine, I can stick that in the colophon, but I'm not willing to include a full version of a software license in print in a non-technical book just for a font (I would use another font instead).

Does Apache 2.0 require such inclusion when used for fonts? An alternative would be to embed it in some non-printable place within the PDF, should such a place exist. Or maybe no such inclusion is required at all?


texts: Adobe InDesign 5.5: why when I place some pics they come out with a very lower resolution in the doc?

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The images I'm using are from different sources but most of all flickr (few from other websites).  When I download them in 500 pixel size for example, they look ok in Anteprima, but when I place them in InDesign doc some are really small - some with an impossible resolution, others with a lower resolution anyway.

Of course this doesn't happen with images from my personal files. How can I control the resolution and solve this problem?


texts: How can I add grain or noise to a picture like this one?

texts: Can anyone tell me about the process behind the effect in this picture.


texts: Creating a semi-transparent 3D cube with borders in Illustrator

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I'm trying to create a 3D cube with different colored borders and face-transparency(while keeping the borders 100% opaque) in Illustrator. Like so(the dotted lines on the backside aren't completely necessary, but would be nice too):

I've made the cube below using Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel, with "Draw hidden faces" checked, and making the fill semi-transparent:

I've tried fiddling with all of the color settings I can find for the original 2D square, but I'm having trouble getting a border to show and not extrude as well.

This is the cube with a border color defined on the 2D square & with the opacity of just the fill reduced:

Anyone know how to do this while keeping the cube/shape unexpanded, without hand-drawing each side, etc, or if it's even possible in Illustrator?


texts: Should I focus on dimensions or proportions, when creating a logo?

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I am currently in the process of creating a logo for myself, within Photoshop.  I know many may say that using Illustrator or Vector may be better but I am using the logo as an opportunity to learn more about Photoshop.

I understand that there are no 'standard dimensions' for logos, since the logo dimensions will be influenced by its purpose.

The logo will primarily be required for:

Website & Favicon
Social Media Channels: Profile and Hero/Headers
Stationery

With the above in mind, I am under the impression that I would need to create a logo to factor in each of the above dimensions.  Over time, I will end up having a lot of files for various purposes.

Is this the 'best practice' or is there a way to create 1 or 2 (primary and secondary for example) logos which scale up and down as is necessary for each of the above?

I have heard about the use of proportions over dimensions.  Would this be a better approach?  If so, how would I go about the use of proportions?  For example, say I open a new File in Photoshop, what dimensions would I insert, when thinking about the proportions approach?

If proportions was the better approach, how would I establish the correct proportions, as to ensure they fit the various purposes, outlined above?

Note:  I understand how to work out proportions.  For example:  600px by 300px would be 1:2 and 900px by 300px would be 1:3 etc.  Where I am uncertain, is the application of proportions and any best practices which should be considered, when working with dimensions and/or proportions.


texts: How do I merge two layermasks in Photoshop?

texts: I have a document with two layers, each a with a layer mask applied. How do I merge the layer masks from »layer 1« with the layer mask on »layer 2«?


texts: What is the origin and the name of this style of the glyph "0"?

texts: Unlike your usual methods of distinction like a dot or a slash in the center, or a narrower shape, this style uses horizontal stress. Good examples of it are the Academica, Turquoise fonts. I'm interested to know how it was originated, and its name, if it has one.


texts: Do web designers need to know how to code?

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As a web developer, both front-end and back end architect, I work with many different designers and sometimes find it frustrating working with design comps where no thought was put into how to accomplish the design in basic CSS and HTML.  On the other hand as a developer I'm expected to be able to produce code from any design.

Do web designers need to know basic modern CSS and HTML techniques?  Why or why not is this important for a well rounded web designer?

Some general thoughts:

Front end web developers should be skilled enough to code up any design.
Web designers should have an understanding of how users will actually interact with their design.
Design shops would rather have designers design and leave all the coding up to the developers.


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I should convert mono-colored seamless pattern to colored one. The problem is -instead of masking, the shapes were cut at the perimeter and expanded, thus using live paint is impossible.

I look for a simple way to "re"-create an area enclosed by cut edges, i.e. connect 2 points to "close" the area and to color it.

For example, I have this cut shape -

Which is expanded, so there is no "area" to fill -

I need to fill the cut open areas with colors - the apexes are pointing to the areas to fill. Grey color is Ai background.

How can achieve that with minimal efforts instead of recreating and masking the whole pattern?

UPD if it unclear, I moved the object to the right to show that the areas of interest are open spaces, not enclosed areas or objects bounds -


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I'm working a script to make ALL the texts of a document with some specifics. Glad to say it's already functioning but not completely because it's just working on some of the textframes and not all of them.

The intention is to make the changes on every texts on the active document (point, area, frames, etc) and unfortunately, even when it works on some text frame, not all characters are affected because some special ones like - or + don't get the properties of the other normal characters.

Made some research and do believe I should be working with parentStory maybe? But I didn't figure out how to implement.

Here is my code:

    var document = app.activeDocument;
    var allTexts = document.textFrames[0];

    for (i=0; i<allTexts.words.length; i++) {
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.autoLeading = true;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.tracking = 250;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.kerningMethod = AutoKernType.AUTO;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.underline = false;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.strikeThrough = false;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.capitalization = FontCapsOption.NORMALCAPS;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.language = LanguageType.UKENGLISH;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.horizontalScale = 100;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.verticalScale = 100;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.baselineShift = 0;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.rotation = 0;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.baselinePosition = FontBaselineOption.NORMALBASELINE;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.baselineDirection = BaselineDirectionType.Standard;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.alternateGlyphs = AlternateGlyphsForm.DEFAULTFORM;
        allTexts.words[i].characterAttributes.antialias = TextAntialias.SHARP;
 }


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why are search icons facing northwest instead of northeast?

A northwest facing search icon like facebook's feels awkward.

And so is google chrome's search icon.. so.. why?


texts: I want to erase eyebrows from face very much like in the example photos. Eventually I will automate the process with code. I need to find a way that would give the results like in the examples and would work with different skin colors as well as eyebrow colors.


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Searched a number of tools both automatic and manual and can't identify what this font is.  Closest I came were an OCR (but the numbers were wrong) or New Letter Gothic - but that didnt have matching numbers (2, 3, 4, 9).

Thanks for any help and anyone who can figure this out!


texts: How can I create rounded corners In Adobe Illustrator in a specific way?

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Say i'm rounding the corners of a word that i've typeset in Illustrator (as if i were creating a logo). That word is 'Kresge' and i've set it in 'Avenir Heavy', a sturdy sans-serif typeface. You'll notice that 'Kresge' contains letterforms that are naturally round like the 's' or the lowercase 'e'.

When i navigate to Illustrator's menu and select: Effects > Stylize > Rounded Corners, it brings up a dialog prompt asking me to specify the radius of the rounded corners and I do. In this case, i want the radius to be almost undetectable at 0.004 inches.

When i hit 'Okay', it does indeed round the edges of the letterforms. But the letters that are already rounded to some extent become jagged and loose their precise geometry. This is because the algorithm is trying to round a shape that already has round proportions. Makes sense.

What i'd like is for the style to focus only on the pointed "hard" edges of the 'e' or the 's', but not the entire letter. Is there a way to get Illustrator to do this? A way that might allow me to now have to go back in and smooth over the jagged edges of each letter after i've applied the style?

Example of what i'm experiencing (before & after corner rounding):

Thanks very much for your help!


texts: Converting a stroke to an object in InDesign

texts: I wan't to convert a stroke to an object in InDesign. Do you know how to do that?


texts: How would you combine several logos in an educational cover?

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I have created a combination of several logos as a cover for an educational program in which the teaching material involves all the topics shown by the trademarks. It occurred to me that there might be guidelines restricting such act from trademark owners.  I saw guidelines from one of the trademark owners, Docker, for example:

Our word Marks (but not logo marks or other graphic depictions of our Marks) may be used in an informational context to name or describe the subject matter of an educational or informational program, to refer to Docker product or technology, provided however that such use otherwise complies with these Guidelines and the following requirements:
The Docker mark is used only in a referential context or for naming Docker or to indicate compatibility, and not in a title of a program, domain name, website, product or service
The use must not falsely imply or suggest a sponsorship or endorsement by, a license from, or a partnership or affiliation with Docker.
Any printed or online materials relating to the program must include proper attribution statements, registration symbols such as ® or © as appropriate, and a trademark notice statement in a form that we provide or approve.
It seems pretty strict, isn't it? -   Docker Trademark Guidelines

Besides the legal aspect, which I should discuss with a lawyer as duly mentioned by Billy Kerr, are there any general guidelines on how to design such covers like A vs. B or Learning A,B,C, and D?
If you were to do a similar job, how would you do it to prevent copyright claims and still convey a strong meaning on the topics involved?


texts: What rounded bold cursive font looks like the "Dunked" logo?

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I have been seeing a major trend in these types of fonts, the bold cursive ones. I have been going through many and so far I have found Pacifico an Honey Script. I have tried using font identification websites but they don't seem to be able to find the letters in cursive fonts.
An example is the Dunked logo. Of the top of my head I can't think of any more examples. I know the dunked logo isn't Pacifico or Honey Script. I have a feeling people are using the same few fonts as each other.
Can anyone tell me what font this is and similar ones fitting the rounded bold cursive style?


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I'm a programmer and a beginner in graphic design. When learning design, I found it very hard for me to decide which font to use in my website. In fact, when viewing separately(i.e. not in a side-by-side view), I think most fonts are identical to each other!

I've browsed many examples, only to found that their CSS font stacks tend to contain 4 or more fonts, which effectively overwhelms me, and presumably other starters.

So, I'm asking for some recommendations here: is there any any general-purpose font which can be used by design beginners safely? Here, "safe" means "not making a website ridiculously ugly or illegible".

To make my question more specific, the font I'm looking for should be:

Free to use.
General-purpose. It must be (at least partially) suitable to most projects.
Web safe. Ideally it should have already been installed on most devices.
Novel. Classic fonts, such as (Sans) Serif, are nice, but they are used at so many places that users are starting to get bored with them.


texts: How to get path of Bezier curves with coordinates of decimal value in CorelDraw

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I need to get path of a letter of some font which is transformed to curves. I have a 512x512 px canvas with 350x350 px letter for example "R" in the middle. I need to export somehow a coordinates of points of Bezier curves.

So I have that canvas with coordinates from 0,0 to 511,511 and some shape in it. But, when I save it as *.svg in the path are for example (256.124 373.811 l-85.544 -46.3289 c-21.8516,33.0922 -34.017,54.9238).

But I need coordinates of pixels in decimal format and from range 0,0 to 511,511.

Is there a way to get path like that?


texts: How do I change color of an image element in Photoshop?

texts:
I am trying to change the color of the blue ring around the devil from royal blue to white.

I keep receiving a message that says You can not use the Color Replacement tool because it does not work with alpha channels.

What does that mean?
Can I change the color of the ring to white without using the Color Replacement tool?


texts: Tool for drawing Smartphones from different 3D Perspectives

texts: For presentation purposes, I need to visualize a process that involves rotating the smartphone in 3D-space. Hence, I am looking for a drawing tool (or a way), which has smartphone graphics (preferably generic) that can be individually rotated around all 3 axis.


texts: Exporting .emf file from Illustrator then inserting into PPT without white surround

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My set up is: Mac, running 10.6.8, using CS5 & Powerpoint 2011

Wondered if anyone can help. I've drawn a load of flat icons in Illustrator as a client wants to use them in their powerpoint presentation.

Each icon has be "united" using the pathfinder tool so it's just one object, I have to place a transparent box behind this and using the pathfinder tool again "Minus Front". Then i export file as an emf file ready for powerpoint.

In powerpoint I insert the file and I can change the colour using the bucket BUT i get a white box surrounding the icon which i can't get rid of.

Any suggestions?


texts:
Is there an icon set for displaying "All", "Some", and "None" states?

For example, an icon for "All categories", one for "Some categories", and one for "No categories".


texts: How to select (and copy) a single object from a PDF I open with Illustrator?

texts:
The whole PDF appears as one object, even though I can see the outlines of all the sub objects.

I would like to ungroup, or expand this big object, but I am not able to.


texts: Highlight region with a darkened background

texts:
I am struggling to do this in Gimp 2.8.22-1.

https://s.natalian.org/2018-01-05/gimp.mp4

I used to be able to do this like so: http://dabase.com/blog/Highlighting_a_region_in_a_screenshot/

What am I missing? Any other tips to highlight a region of a graphic?


texts: How to edit a text box under another text box in Adobe Acrobat PDF?

texts: For the life of me I cannot edit the smaller text box area that is totally contained by a larger one. I just need to edit the text on this smaller box but unsure how I can access to it. I can select the text with the arrow but the edit cursor will not select the smaller box contained in the larger box, just opening up editing on the larger one every time.


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I was recently made aware you can animate in Krita, and got excited about it, since I've been drawing in Krita for months now. I was doing some test animation but quickly ran into a problem. I set the animatiom to 100 frames long and turned on onion skins. The thing is, whenever I draw in a new frame, the program automatically makes every frame following it a copy of that frame. This got annoying pretty quickly, i want to start drawing in a new blank frame with the onion skins guiding me    I don't want to have to constantly erase the frame before drawing in it.
This seems to be some sort of setting but I don't know what it is, as soon as I draw on a frame, a blue line appears across all the following frames in the timeline, indicating that they're all copies of the last frame. This blue line wasn't there before so i know that's what its representing. Can anyone tell me what this setting is called, and how to disable it?


texts: How do I view a JPEG's EXIF data in Gimp?

texts:
I would like to view a JPEG's EXIF data in Gimp, perhaps modifying it.

How do I do this?


texts: How do I select all footnote texts at once using GREP?

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I regularly copy-paste texts from pdf files and such to InDesign. The original files often contain a significant amount of footnotes. The contents of the footnote texts are converted to plain text and appear as such:

[a bunch of text with footnote references]
10 See Articles 5(1)(f) and 32. (actual footnote text)
11 Article 32; see also Recital 83 (actual footnote text)
12 See Recital 87 (actual footnote text)
Guidelines on Personal data breach notification under the GDPR
[a bunch more paragraphs with footnote references]
13 It should be noted that a security incident [...] (actual footnote text)
14 See Opinion 03/2014 (actual footnote text)

This continues throughout the text. A such, all the footnote texts are spread out as they originally appeared at the bottom of the respective pages.
Now, I would really like a GREP command that will select all of the footnote texts at once so I can cut-paste them to somewhere else. So far I've managed to make this working expression:
(^\d\d(?<=^\d\d).+(?=\r)\r)+
This will select all footnote texts that appear in order plus the numbers.
From there I was trying to make a code which would look behind line 12 for example, and also look behind any paragraphs after 12 with regular text information and see if footnote text 13 etc. would come up:
(?<=(^\d\d.+\r(.+\r)+))

The problem with something like this is that positive lookbehinds don't accept usage of a plus. So now I don't know how I can look behind any paragraph regardless of the amount of characters there are. How would I go about doing that?


texts: How can I make this text  (slightly) more 'Chinese-looking'?

texts:
How can I make this text (slightly) more Chinese looking?

(examples will be appreciated if possible).

(I think the purpose of doing this is obvious).

**** EDIT: This is option two:**


texts:
I use Snagit to capture screenshots on my PC and saw the picture below that has a magnifying glass effect on it. I tried to recreate it on Snagit but the magnify options are pretty basic and I don't like the output.

How can I achieve this rather easily without too much complex photo editing? It would be counter productive for me to spend more than 5 minutes editing each screenshot I take, so I am looking for the best practice here.


texts: CMYK in notebook looks different in other media

texts:
I usually do my works in Photoshop in an Asus notebook. The problem that I'm having is that whenever I save a picture in CMYK format it looks fine everywhere I try to visualize it in my Asus, but when I try to print it or when I transfer it to other devices like my mobile or other computers, it gets oversaturated.

This is the image as I see it on my Asus.

And this is how I see it when I transfer to other devices or when I print it.

I know there are a lot of differences between colour schemes in CMYK and in RGB (as supposed in a screen), but at least in Photoshop I should see the image exactly how it would look like when printed, otherwise designing in CMYK would be useless.
I have looked through questions like this How can I make sure that my on-screen colors are consistent? but none of the solutions given fully solved my problem (my notebook screen isn't provided with settings as to calibrate it so finely). Should I look at my graphics card configuration? Should I update my graphics card driver? Should I change my graphics board? Should I throw my notebook away and buy a new one?


texts: How to keep printed documents accurate color reproduction

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Is there a way to widen the gamut of a CMYK print so that the darks stay dark and the lights stay light? I suspect it has something to do with color space being exported, but I don't know how to approach making changes to it. Also any other hints of workflow adjustments to help guarantee accurate colours?

Some explanation:

I recently had some proofs done with the same Indesign generated PDF (with a few CMYK AI files and a number of photos) at two different printers on similar matte stock. I did everything I thought I should to make sure the colours are right... saving the AI and INDD files in CMYK and not doing any explicit conversion to the placed RGB photos until exporting to PDF.

One of the prints I found the colours were generally darker than what I was looking at on my screen and some of the darker areas lost some details. The other print had the opposite problem... the colours were a bit brighter, and lost some detail in the lighter tones. Generally I've noticed that things I get printed are generally a bit darker than I see on my screen at a few different places.


texts: Disable see-through view mode in SketchUp

texts:
I pressed something and enabled a see-thorough mode in SketchUp. I ended up with the geometry being displayed like it is cut by some invisible plane.

I don't want it, how can I disable it?


texts:
I have an image already at 100% opacity but the whole image is partially transparent (with a transparent background).

Is there some way to uniformly increase the opacity (effectively going beyond the current 100%) ?


texts:
I've been looking into Japanese Star Trek media, and I was hoping to find 3 fonts they used.
This first one is likely based off of the Galaxy Font (also known as Star Trek Film BT). There are 2 other fonts I need, but apparently I'm only allowed a single link.


texts: Illustrator: How to make 'lens elements', convex and concave, shapes?

texts:
Just starting out in Illustrator and I want to make a shape such as this:

The way I have done it is like this:

Make a rectangle
Move 2 corner anchor points

Add anchor points on either side

Move the recently added anchor points inward/outward

Remove path (because I don't want some points curved) and Effect->
Stylise-> Rounded

Now, when I go to remove the top anchor as a path, it removes the whole side.

Is there a better way of doing this?


texts: I'm  trying get this blurry graphic effect in Adobe Illustrator but I'm not succeeding. Can anyone help me?


texts: What kind of prep and considerations for using a night photo in print work?

texts:
One thing I still struggle with is using night photos in advertisements. I tend to avoid it but sometimes its necessary or requested.

I find it difficult on glossy and even worse on a newsprint to work with any sort of night photo.

What kind of prep and/or adjustments can be taken to a night shot to make sure it doesn't come out looking too dark, flat, hard to see, kinda lost on the paper.

Say something like this using a photo from Unsplash for a quick example, no affiliation at all with Milwaukee.

Or again with a photo from Unsplash:

When actually printing these can quickly look overly dark and muddy.


texts: How to screen print a design in Illustrator with a gaussian blur effect?

texts:
I am new to the screen printing world and I have a design I'm having trouble printing the color separations for. I noticed the gaussian blur effect is not printing on the color separations. I also know that gaussian blur is not vector but raster, so I tried converting the image to bitmap to see if that would make a difference but it did not.

Any advice would be appreciated.


texts: Should I use Photoshop or Illustrator for a large print design?

texts:
I'm new to this site and am taking on some graphics work that requires a big print out. I have never worked on such a large scale and was wondering if you guys could answer some basic questions for me.

I pretty much want to create something like the image below with a chalkboard and chalk lettering effect. I know how to do this in photoshop, but I don't know if the text and images will be blurry if scaled up?

The dimensions are 5' Wide and 7' Tall. I don't know what print company they are using or what the PPI needs to be.

So my questions are: Am I better of trying to create a similar effect in Adobe Illustrator since it's a vector based program? If not, can you explain how I can set it up in photoshop to be printable at that size?

Thank you very much if you read all this. I hope you can help :)


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I have a large building map imported from a DWG file and I want to only keep one region:

Is there a way to do this not by masking the outter region, but removing all shapes outside my region.


texts: IllustratorCS6 - Rounded rectangle stroke is not rounded also

texts: I have a shape created with the rounded rectangle tool and when I add a stroke to it, the inside corners of the stroke are not rounded. Is there a way to make them rounded without creating 2 separate objects?


texts: Is HelveticaNeue a good web/e-mail typeface if it can successfully embedded?

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I need to send some professional/commercial e-mails, my design currently look like this:

Helvetica is very widely used in printing, and according to Wikipedia:

  Miedinger and Hoffmann set out to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage.

But many people state that its use should be limited to printing as it makes a poor web font with the two main reason being:

The font looks ugly (but they don't talk about Helvetica Neue and its 51 versions)
Most users don't have the font, and Windows systematically redirect its call to Arial via registry key (but they don't talk about embedding legally a subset). In the case of e-mails they also tell support to@font-face is very poor (which is true, but they don't talk about the combination of several other fall-back methods which "solve" this issue).

The second reason is the most important, because the suggested replacements I saw : widely available on users computers, which means "using non-professional typefaces" but which are safe value (still without considering embedding).

So, does HelveticaNeue is a good typeface strictly in terms of legibility?
Or a different typeface would be better... even a serif one?


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I've had a new client request a web site in 2 weeks. Not only I already find that pretty quick but I'm totally loaded so I charged a rush fee that I was comfortable with. I wrote the rush fee in my quote and figured that it would remind them to plan ahead of time for the next project. However, I also see there are downfalls to this as the client tried to negotiate (getting the rush fee lowered).

Do you write rush fees in your price quotes or do you just keep that to yourself and why?


texts: How to check if my logo is a duplicate of another logo?

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As the title asks, how can I check to see if my logo is a duplicate of another logo?

Even though I didn't use another logo as a direct example to design my logo, I am worried that a logo similar to the one I made may already be used somewhere. Currently I am unaware of any way out whether or not that is the case. What are some ways to do so?


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When using Adobe Illustrator I wish I could just program things sometimes, like I do with TikZ & LaTeX. Are there any plugins or extensions or general workflows that can help unite these two concepts, beyond simply importing a PDF?

Here's an example of an ornamental pattern I programmed with LaTeX & TikZ. It's basically a 50 sided polygon with each vertex connected to every other vertex by an edge:


texts: Looking for resources to study the design practices for Asian countries like china, taiwan etc

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I am a visual designer and I have recently got this project on researching web/app design practices for Asian countries e.g. China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea etc. I have been trying to search for books or other resources but couldn't find one. I hope someone can refer me some resource to study the same.

For instance: If I need to design a mobile application for China, I need to understand how does the design work in China. E.g if Red is to stop, green is to go in USA, what is standard people follow in countries like china, Japan etc. How do they deal with the Typography and what are some best practices for the local user of those countries and how it is different than from western countries.
I would be working on web/mobile app designs. I hope someone can guide me.


texts: Exponential/logarithmic scaling in Illustrator?

texts: Given a flat object in Illustrator, how can I scale it along the X or Y axis so that it stretches in an exponential fashion? That means that the center barely is stretched, but the outer extents stretch much more? I know there are some warp effects, but those seem to affect both axes.


texts: How would one go about creating a lined 3D effect as shown in the image below?


texts: Must in-house software adhere to existing company branding?

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I have a question about designing and developing a User Interface.

The company has a brand guide which doesn't really have the potential of satisfactorily being used for a web application in development. The CI is more focused on the Website and the company brand.

What are your thoughts and suggestions to guide a client in the direction of using a software-like feel UI instead of their CI as part of their software application?


texts: How do I change the order and number of slices in Photoshop?

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I have an old manuscript that is scanned as 4 pages per A4, I need to slice it down to 4 separate pages, each page as a single file.
I used actions in Photoshop to separate every two A4 into two files, a top and bottom ones with 2 pages in each of them.
Now, since the scan is not very accurate, I need to manually slice these images (the ones I get from my previous step) into two separate pages, and to save time I decided to use the slice tool to slice each image into two slices, then export them for web so I get two separate image files in a single step.

The problem is that the manuscript is written in Arabic, so the direction is from right to left. Photoshop, by default, recognizes slice that starts from the very top left corner as slice #1, and other slices as #2 and/or #3. According to this order of slices the exported files will take their names, and due to that I will have page no. 2 as no. 1, and page no. 2 as no.1!

I tried to change the point of origin of the ruler, but with no luck!

How can I make Photoshop flip the document direction so it considers the top right corner as the beginning instead of the top left corner?
Or is there any way to change the order of slices?


texts: Difference between `Ctrl + A` and `Ctrl + Click`?

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I am novice to photoshop and working on converting PSD to * HTML*.

I learned that you can select a layer and Ctrl + A, and copy-paste to create a new image equal to the size of layer.

I also learned that you can copy by Ctrl + left mouse click, and copy-paste.

However I noticed that the second method is not good for copying layers with opacity. What is the difference between these two methods of copying layers?


texts: Animation of scanning, transition to the other layer on effect

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I want to create a transition using scanning effect (horizontal line going from a head to a toes of a character). Basically let's say I have two layers, one with green human, and second wth red human. Horizontal line while moving from up to bottom, switches layers, showing partially green/red human, then ending on showing only red one.

What should I do, in order to create an effect where this line, while going down, switching layer with the character to other layer.
Also, is there any name for this kind of effect? Is it parallax?


texts: Inkscape: Combine objects with different colors

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I have the following objects that I need to combine them in one object

When I press Ctrl + +, which is union, all rectangulars become grey as follows:

If I press Ctrl + k, which is combine, all rectangulars become blue as follows:

How can I combine all rectangulars while keeping the original colors? Thanks!

Update:
Each rectangular along with its text is one object. I combined them using Ctrl + -, which is difference. I don't know if this may help.


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When I use the Polygonal lasso tool to select a new layer, the line won't go cross the pixel to another one but go step by step through the pixel's line like the photo below, it turned straight line into strange stair-steps.
How can I fix this ?


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What are some places or areas where one could donate graphic design services for the greater good?

I don't really mean local not for profit organization, but more on a regional, national, or global scale. Local non-profits are often a specialized thing for a specialized (not always "needy" group).

I know I could hit my local Goodwill/Salvation Army and offer to volunteer my time. However, that would just be my physical presence not my expertise. I'm curious if there's a way to donate design services to large caregiving organizations. Something that would assist a global community rather than the company themselves.

Do you donate? How?


texts: Ctrl/Cmd + D results in uneven spacing and images won't snap properly

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The object below is clip masked. Then, I wanted to add a circle under each lighter-navy bar.
But, here I ran into problems.
First, the circle I made will never snap to the rectangle.
Second, ctrl/cmd + D to copy objects in equal spacing eventually results in uneven spacing, even though the first and second object is perfectly placed.

What is possibly wrong here?


texts: Converting an RGB image to CMYK with a specific black? (Photoshop)

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I would like to convert a lot of RGB images to a CMYK where the black is 20, 20, 20, 100.

By making a custom CMYK and using separation type GCR and 22% UCA I can get pretty close. But I can see on the gray ramp that the cyan is higher than the rest. When I convert I get a CMYK black that is 14, 15, 24, 100. So its not perfect.

Is there a beter way to to this? Or can I change how the gray ramp works?

Thanks!


texts: What is the best tool to create training manuals or journals in mac OS?

texts: I am the first intern in the company. I was tasked to create an internship manual as my legacy. I want to make a creative one and instead of using a word, I want to use a layout and designing tool. I'm a student so I am looking for a free one for my mac.


texts: Tips and resources for beginning designers

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Thanks to the internet, graphic design and programming are becoming increasingly overlapping fields.

As a programmer, I constantly find myself needing basic knowledge of Graphic Design, but have trouble locating thorough yet concise graphic design learning resources, and instead usually find bits and pieces of knowledge applicable to the task at hand.

Can you guys offer some tips or recommend some good books, tutorials, blogs, and websites which provide a beginner level overview of web design that have been, in your experience, effective and high quality learning materials. I'm not looking for tips on how to use image editing tools, but assuming a basic grasp of those, which resources and advice will best help a new designer create professional looking designs?


texts: Font with its name displayed in different font

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When looking in Microsoft Word, some fonts, such as Wingdings, are shown in the dropdown using a different font for the font's name, so that you can actually read it.

I have designed a font, but its name isn't readable, so I want to do what Wingdings did. Is it possible to define a setting in a TTF that is similar?

I am using FontForge.


texts: Convert a simple straight line to a stylized line

texts: I created this design several years ago and I can't find the .ai file!!! I just need to change the background so I'll have to re-do it, but I can't remember how I created these lines. They were originally straight simple lines (line tool) and I don't know how I turned them into these...


texts: Colors change in Photoshop when copying a selection from one document into a new document

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I'm trying to copy a particular layer out of a Photoshop document into its own new document and export it for use on the web.  I'm doing this by right-clicking the layer in the layers palette, choosing 'Select pixels', copying to the clipboard, creating a new document with the default size (based on clipboard contents), and pasting.

This works, but causes the colors in the copied image to change.  As an example, a gray divider image goes from #d6d5d5 -> #b0adad (I'm getting the colors in the source and destination image by using the eyedropper tool).

The color modes of the source and destination images are the same (RGB 8-bit), and when creating the new document, I'm accepting the default Color Profile of 'sRGB IEC61966-2.1'.  I'm using Photoshop CS5 on a Mac.

Anyone know how I can extract a layer from my image without incurring a color shift?


texts: Reduce image palette to the actual colors

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I made this image:

And now I need to save it to Gif, but no matter what I try I end up with an image containing only two colors.
How can I properly reduce the palette of my image to the actual number (apparently no more that a dozen shades of grey) it contains? I tried imagemagick's convert too, but it produces a nasty blur, actually adding colors :/


texts: Avoiding Colour Optical Illusions in Tables

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I have a table that I am using colors to highlight certain cells containing the repeated values.
Cells with values that do not repeat are uncoloured.

Because of illusionary effects, the cells that are not coloured look "off white" or even a pale cream, or light blue.

You can spot that they are actually white if you use a sheet of paper to cover the coloured cells around them.

Below is the same table again, I have marked the cells that are infact white with a red X

How can I stop this colour illusion?

I suspect that actively colouring the white backgrounded cells a grey could work.

This is primarily for viewing on Monitors, but it may also be printed.


texts: Time requirement for Photoshop Vs Illustrator for mobile app

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First of all I am not a designer but a developer, please bear with me if this an amateurish question.

I am looking to get some graphics done for a mobile app. I want to get vector graphics done so that it is scalable to different size for different purposes (app store, the phone, web etc.).

Generally speaking does it take more time to do it in Illustrator than on Photoshop?
Do I have to account for more time if I require it to be done on Illustrator?


texts: What is the font from the intro of "The Lord of the Rings"

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(I've read the related answer on meta.)

What I'm looking for is the font used in the intro to "The Lord of the Rings". It is at the beginning of this clip from the italian version and this one from the english version; the spanish version uses this. Given the very similar words, it seems that the spanish and italian version share exactly the same font, but I'm not dead sure that the english version uses, the same (even if I think so). Anyway I need the italian-version font.

With Identifont's Font by appearance tool I've found some similar-looking fonts, but anyway the similartity is really loose.

The other tools really didn't help me.

That it could be a non-font is a real possibilty; on the other hand, reapeted letters are pretty much the same, and the different filling and jagged borders could have been added to the letters of the font.

It's a serif font, isn't it?


texts: Does anyone know of a script to sort words in single a paragraph alphabetically?

texts: There is a standard script to sort multiple paragraphs alphabetically in InDesign, but I am looking for a script to sort words within a single paragraph alphabetically. Does anyone know of such a script?


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Our company uses gmail as the email client, and so our signatures are made up of text that can be edited in the text editor and images that have to be hosted on our server.

CSS is not an option.

Any idea on how I can prevent my email icons from showing up as blurry?


texts: export icon from illustrator to Photoshop with transparency

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I have an icon in illustrator but when I export to Photoshop I get white around the shadow in the image. Please advise how to remove the white. I have the icon in layers.

original ai file
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/43531370/file.html

Thanks


texts: Why is Bounce (and Tumble) rarely done these days?

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In the days of hand lettering and letter presses there was a specific decision given to the Bounce of the text. That is manually tweaking the line height on a per character basis.

Excerpt from Letter Design in the Graphic Arts, by Mortimer Leach

This is very rarely seen these days. Even as Hand Lettering is somewhat trendy at the moment, the lettering is still being largely relegated to a single visual line height. What I mean is, even if the lettering is along a curve, its a constant curve throughout the word.

I would say few do it when hand lettering and almost none do it when setting type on Desktop Publishing software or for web.

Why has the bounce and tumble gone not just away but for all intent purposes not even a part of the typography language anymore (you won't find a wikipedia entrance of it for example).


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Let's have an image with a size of e.g. 1000x1000 px. The image is transparent, but only but one pixel is not.
The question:

How can I find this pixel where it is in the picture by using Photoshop?

Can I see from somewhere how many (non-transparent) pixels my image contains (by using Photoshop).


texts: Saving an Adobe illustrator file as a pdf - are fonts embedded? If so, why does Adobe illustrator say I don't have the font when I open it?

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If I have an Adobe Illustrator file, and I save it as a .pdf - it looks like the fonts are included in that .pdf file.
(I think this because when I open the .pdf file in Reader it looks the way I expect it to.)
However, when I open this same .pdf file on a different computer (or workstation) with Adobe Illustrator - Illustrator says I 'don't have the font I need'.
This doesn't make sense to me because - If I can see the document correctly in reader, I would expect it to be there for Illustrator as well.
Can someone explain why this is?
I am asking because saving a file as a .pdf for print seems to handle most font troubles that come up - but sometimes I need to change the text in a file before I print it... I am hoping there is a way to open a .pdf so that .ai recognizes that the font is in there.  But I am unsure on the details of saving as a .pdf in Illustrator, how fonts are handled, and what is possible.


texts: I tried to import an SVG into After Effects but got an error stating that file format is not supported. Is there any way I can achieve this or is there any alternative solutions?


texts: Copy width/height from one rectangle to others? (Illustrator)

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I have several rectangles, all of which are slightly different sizes, I want to make them all the same height/width as the top one.

Running the latest illustrator CC 2015.3.1


texts: Is it better to illustrate on matte paper or glossy paper?

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I have searched for this question here but I did not see anything in regards to paper.  I ask this question because some have chosen different types of paper when illustrating and I do not understand why.  The majority of people would typically choose matte paper but there are some benefits to choosing glossy paper such as:

Glossy

Better finished quality
finer detail capabilities
Doesn't work well with ball point pens

Matte

easier to work with pen
sometimes cheaper than glossy
Harder to achieve finer detail

Other than those pros and cons is their a reason why someone would choose glossy paper over matte paper?


texts: Comparison chart for glyphs that work in MS Word, Illustrator, InDesign+

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I want to buy some fonts and ran across an excellent comparison chart for the advance glyphs and ligatures available in the various programs such as Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and so on.

Of course, out of the hundreds if not thousand screenshots and bookmarks for everything else, I can't find this chart.

It was important as I remember a lot of the ligatures and glyphs were not supported in Word and I remember thinking "Oh Lord, I will have to buy and learn a new program!"

Which I of course do not want to do. But I don't want to buy one of the fonts such as Adobe Jenson, Garamond or Arno Pro (or others along those lines). I'm looking for a font with beautiful glyphs and ligatures in particular.

Does anyone know of this chart I am talking about?

Does anyone know of a font I could use with these characteristics in MS Word for Mac 2011?


texts: How much bleed should I put on social media images?

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I'm using the guidelines for social media images, but I notice that I have to take into account  some borders and so on. What is standard bleed for online images? 5px, 10px?

Guide is here:

http://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-image-sizes-guide/#facebook


texts: How can I create a collage of randomly sized overlapping polygons and randomly fill (to an extent) with gradients? (Illustrator)

texts: I am trying to learn how to make something exactly like this from scratch:


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I'm trying to space text logarithmically. My goal is essentially the same as the one presented here, which is useful but doesn't help me as the only advice provided is to use JS, which I'm not familiar enough with to write something like this in from scratch, let alone in Illustrator.

Here is some code linked in the answer I'm referring to (JSFiddle):

function log10(val) {
  return Math.log(val) / Math.LN10;
}
var paper = Raphael('meh', 1000,1000);
for (var i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
    var log = log10(i) * 125;
    var yPos = 260 - log;
    var r = paper.rect(0,yPos,5,1,1);
    if (i==1 || i==10 || i==100) {
      paper.text(15,yPos,i);
    }
  r.attr({opacity: 0.6, 'stroke-width': 0, fill: '#000000'});
    console.log(yPos);
};

Credit: user568458

My first thought was to use a blend and replace the spine, but as I'm using outlined text, that wouldn't work. It would blend between the letters as well as space them but that's not what I want. I need the letterforms to stay intact.

If someone could help me adapt this code to a script that I could run in Illustrator I would appreciate it. I would need to be able to input custom values to control the spacing each time I ran the script.

EDIT: Thanks for the replies so far. Here's an image of what I'd like to accomplish. I placed these letters by hand using the logarithmic grid tool in illustrator, but I have several hundred characters of text I'd like to set with varying bases to achieve different spacings.


texts: Photoshop on a retina screen, how to fix?

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I am curious what's your favourite fix or option for using photoshop on a retina screen like a macbook pro 13' like mine.

I'm quite upset with this computer as it is a pain to do web design in, because as you may now, the photoshop canvas looks very very small at 100%.

For example a canvas of 1280x2000 px at 72dpi , is really small in photoshop (normal mode).
But if we select the low resolution mode, the fonts don't look crisp and I find myself scrolling all the time , left and right.

So for a person like me that is constantly working on 99designs, what should I do to fix this.
Besides connecting to an external display.
As my HP 23xi is not working with this macbook pro, don't ask me why, it gets cut and blurred.

Some help would be appreciated.

My Warmest Regards,

Luís Fernandes


texts: How to smoothen such jagged edges on curves?

texts: I am newbie photoshop designer (not really a designer). I have this design done by me , you can clearly see those non-smooth curves, I want to know how I can smooth them out to look good in photoshop.


texts: How set my Illustrator document to be 150 dpi?

texts: I am creating something for print that will be 160.472"w x 89.764"h.  I'm not sure where to set these dimensions in Illustrator and set the dpi.


texts: I'm trying to improve my design skills and decided I would try to do a redesign of reddit or bbc website. I use Figma and started from scratch. Then it dawned on me perhaps there is a way to do this by importing the website itself/mirror copy of it into Figma. I imagine there must be a tool where I can input the URL of the website and it would give me some file I can then import into Figma and then start editing the site from that? I know from web development there are services to copy an entire sites source files, and surely there must be something similar on the design side of things? So designers can quickly get the website into Figma to start playing/tweaking all the parts of it from that. Instead of starting from a blank canvas each time, and having to build them all up one by one?


texts: Printing with cmyk and greyscale same document

texts: I have a book being professionally printed which has cmyk images and black and white images (illustrations) which are saved as 20% dot gain tiffs. Would there be any problems printing this from the printers since there's two different colour profiles?


texts: Remove selected ring when editing layer in Photoshop CS6

texts: The layer being edited always have a black border around it, this is rather annoying especially when I draw something small, anyone knows how to remove it? Thanks.


texts: How to enable Paint Bucket instead of Material Drop Tool on CC 2015?

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I'm using photoshop CC 2015 and I can't select Paint bucket anymore, only this annoying Material Drop Tool is shown instead of bucket in the Tools.

any ideas?


texts: Is there any I can isolate and edit the layers to understand the steps are taken to create an AI document? For example, here's a screenshot of a basketball element AI from web and addition information in the layers panel. But I can only see it but can't edit it.


texts: Is it a better way to design at small dimensions (say 12x16 inches instead of 36x48 inches) for print?

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One of my lengthy question was marked duplicated because there were too many confusions. I believe it was clearly not a duplicate. My doubt is totally different and it is not answered there. So I'm asking it again, but only the major doubt per question.

As you know, Illustrator becomes slow when you work on large JPEG/PNG photos and typography. I need to design a 3x4 feet (36x48 inches) standee. So I currently design at actual dimensions, (3x4 feet, 300 PPI). I put 300 PPI because I need to make sure photos look good even at 1 foot distance.

But this makes it little slow and lagging.

Now, what I can do is design at 12x16 inches and later scale it up.

Here are 2 concerns related to it:

a) I design at 12x16 inches, and import a high resolution image (say greater than 12000x12000 px) photo to Illustrator, which is much larger than artboard, scale it down and fit it to artboard.

NOTE: If I import the same image to 36x48 inches (300 ppi) artboard, it does completely cover up the artboard. So you get the idea of image.

Would scaling up the whole artwork at the end pixelate the photo? (Just like it happens in Photoshop, when you've not created a smart object of it, and unlike the vector objects in Illustrator which can be scaled up at any dimensions) Or  doesn't Illustrator lose the information of photo when the photo is scaled down so you can scale it up at any time (obviously not exceeding the actual dimensions of the photo)?

b) If Illustrator conserves the quality of the imported photo, the only thing that remains to do is export at actual dimensions (36x48 inches). Is there any possible option in Illustrator to save the file as PDF at scaled up dimensions?

Given that all, which is a better way to design, at small dimensions or actual dimensions?

PS: Please comment if you don't understand the photo thing in a)


texts: If I scan in an image at 300ppi and then in photoshop resize the image to 72ppi but want to keep the dimension the the same so say 5cm x 3cm can you do that because I change the ppi to 72 and it says the dimensions in cm is still 5x3 but the image clearly reduces in size?


texts: How to clear up scanned images of old drawings?

texts: I have a scanned jpg file, of an old civil war era document, and I need it cleaned or some sort of process done, to make the information readable. This book was laid in a scanner, and the images sent to me are poor quality.


texts: Is there a place for a 3D modeler in 2016?

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I know that this question was asked and answered hundreds of time, and I did google it and read them.The problem is that I think that 3D industry is rapidly changing. Is there place for 3D modeler in 2016?

I have strong desire to become one. I have some models, you can check them at maxzix.cgsociety.org. Do you think I should start more intensively? I am kind of lost because I am finishing high school in 5 months and there is no college for 3D in my country. I don't know what to do.


texts: Create Illustrator document without defined document/canvas size?

texts: Does anyone know if it's possible to create a new document in illustrator that is boundless? And once you have entered all the content you define the size before exporting?


texts: Inkscape: How to symetrically adjust handles on two nodes of the same path?

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On a symmetrical path, I'd like to adjust two nodes while maintaining the symmetry.

I understand I can move the nodes horizontally using < and shift-< using the center point as the symmetry point of a scaling operation. What if I want to adjust the handles only (changing the angle or the length)?
Inkscape 0.91, Windows 7.


texts: Fireworks symbol scripts created in CS5.5 are not working in CC6

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I have a library of custom Fireworks symbols which had symbol scripts allowing me to control the display attributes of elements and text via the Symbol Properties panel. The symbols and the scripts were created using Fireworks CS5.5 using the built in script editor.

When loading the same exact scripts into Fireworks CC6 they appear in the common symbol library but when they are added to the document the Symbol properties panel does not display the scripted options.

I have tried opening the script in the editor in the CC6 version and resaving with no change in behavior.

Does anyone:

See the same behavior (i do not see any help articles / issues on
Adobe.com)
Have a fix for the broken symbol scripts


texts: I am unable to change or remove pattern color of SVG in Illustrator

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I am using Adobe Illustrator CC 22.1 (64bit).

When I open a SVG that has a pattern I am unable to change the color of the pattern. Sometimes it works but with this pattern it doesn't, I do not know what I am doing differently.

Inside the pattern there should be negative space.


texts: Fonts not combining correctly into a family (PC)

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I'm using FontCreator 6.5 professional. I have two fonts in the same family, and in "naming" I've given them the same Font Family Name, and in Subfamily one is called Regular and the other is called Italic. But when I drag the two .ttf files to the Fonts folder in windows, only the Italic one is listed, and they aren't combining. But if I delete the Italic version from Fonts, all of the sudden the Regular shows up. I've checked in FontCreator and they each have a Unique Font Identifier.

What can I do to get Windows to see them as two versions of the same font?


texts: Illustrator - Radial gradient on multiple shapes

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I have some circles and line to make a cloud like the one below. I know i can use the path finder to make some unions.

But how to make some gradients with a 3d effect ? (like the example)

Thanks in advance

(i'm using Illustrator CS6)


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I want to create a single PDF file with an editable text field/form that supports as many languages as possible.

I thought that using the Noto Sans font would be the solution, but I noticed that it is in fact divided into different fonts according to the language group. I'm unsure if what I want to do will even be possible, as you can only assign one font to a text field in Acrobat.

I'd really like to have just one PDF and for users to enter the text in any language.

Does anyone know if this is possible, or know any workarounds?


texts: How would Forbes' design team create these photos?

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There's a gallery of The Best Advestment Advice of All Time where all of the portraits have the same effect applied. What would that be called, and how can I do something similar using Adobe Photoshop?

For example:


texts: Is there any free software for use with printed documents (for accurate CMYK)?

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I need to send redesigned business cards to a print shop.

I've tried GIMP and Inkscape (cards presently designed with GIMP with an embedded CMYK profile; I didn't have the computer knowledge to make use of the the work-arounds for Inkscape's CMYK issue), and both have lots me gobs of time (months) and thus money by going back and forth with the printer which apparently has been tweaking the colors at their end and usually not so successfully.

I never had such problems with Photoshop files, but my super old version (7 or 8?) stopped working and I couldn't reinstall because Adobe's server stopped supporting something to do with that process. Having moved to another state recently (with all of my old longstanding, reliable customers in another state), I am broke as can be and need free if at all possible.


texts: If I need to create a large format poster @ 120 dpi can the image on the poster be @ 120 dpi as well?

texts: If I need to create a large format poster that's supposed to be printed at 120 dpi can the image on the poster have an effective DPI of 120 dpi as well?