When working in Flash, have you ever been greeted by the following Font Mapping screen?
When working in Flash, have you ever been greeted by the following Font Mapping screen?
Just received this Adobe Illustrator/Acrobat tip from the feedblitz newsletter. Currently in Adobe Illustrator you can import PDF files, but you can only import one page at a time. If you want to create multiple pages on separate artboards you can drag and drop your PDF file on this script created by Shane Stanley. The script will create a separate Illustrator artboard for each page in your PDF. This script will only work on Macs and requires Illustrator CS4 or CS5.
One way I've found to cure a sluggish Mac is to limit the amount of fonts loaded in OS X. By default OS X loads a number of fonts that aren't required by the operating system. On top of that, Microsoft Office and Adobe's Suite of applications add several fonts that aren't required.
On a recent client project I had a Photoshop file that I had to transition to Flash for a banner ad. The Photoshop file had over 30 tiny layers that needed to be exported. Rather than do all this work manually I used a pre-built Script in Photoshop to create separate files from layers automatically. Go to File > Scripts > Export Layers to Files ...
At first I was very hesitant to see the movie. I thought it would be another boring, teacher wasting their students time kind of documentary. I was wrong. I enjoyed every second of it and yes, I am a design nerd. Though there are varying opinions of the font, the documentary does a great job getting insight from both sides of the debate (I wonder what side this guy is on?). Not only does it reintroduce us to some familiar faces in the design world, but it gives us a history of the font and the reasoning behind it’s creation. If you haven’t seen it I would highly recommend watching it. This may be my inner nerd talking again,but I think it’s kind of cool to learn a little something about a font that we use/see everyday. I guarantee after you watch this movie you will start spotting Helvetica everywhere. Even if you would like Helvetica to fall off the face of the earth, it’s worth the rental. ( http://www.helveticafilm.com/ )
