In a previous article we discussed the benefits of using WhatTheFont.com, a free online service for identiying fonts.  I recently discovered the folks at MyFonts developed an App that delivers the same great font-matching features to the iPhone. 

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.

Everyday I get so many e-newsletters that I've created a script in mac mail to filter them right away out of my inbox and into a different folder (here's the blog post on how to filter mac mail). However, when these three email subscriptions below come into my inbox, I have to stop and read the headlines and see what they have to say. These are great sources of marketing information and tips/how-to's for any marketing professional looking to keep up with social media and marketing.

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 ...

How often do you come across a web page that is too cluttered, contains small type thats hard to read, or contains large blocks of type that are reversed out on a dark background?  If this is as annoying to you as it is to me, you may want to check out the new Reader feature thats available in the Safari 5 web browser (for Mac and PC).