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  • Entry posted May 24 by skwriter9, tagged Design, Development, Mobile, Video in Blog public

    Thanks everyone for coming to the first meeting of TCS2-Israel and CS4-Israel. It was good to see some old friends. Mina House of Design is a beautiful two-story building with textiles by Mina. She displays the artwork of several Israeli artists. Walking into Mina's is like taking a breath of fresh air. The gallery is light and airy. Art placement is tasteful and uncluttered. If you have a chance just walking around in Mina's is a treat. And if you want good coffee, the coffee shop upstairs has all kinds of treats.

    After we networked for awhile, and caught up with what we were all doing, Kelli Brown gave a short talk about PhotoShop CS4 as both CS4 and TCS2 include PhotoShop CS4. She did a really cool demonstration of a "ray of light" that turned into a sunburst. Thanks Kelli!

    This prompted discussion about how many free resources are now available to users. My favorite resource is iTunes U Podcasts. Layers Magazine and Lynda.com share many valuable tips and tricks for PhotoShop and the other applications in CS4 on iTunes U and on their respective websites.

    Next meeting we hope to focus on Adobe Technical Creative Suite 2. We are also trying to make the next meeting a virtual meeting. Hope to "see" you there.

  • Welcome to the Technical Communications Suite 2 Israel Adobe Group. Join us as an interested party, an experienced user, or a super user of Adobe's RoboHelp and FrameMaker combo, Captivate eLearning tool, and PhotoShop CS4 extended.

    Adobe requested that the Technical Communication Suite group work with the CS4 group when they granted the rights to create CS4 Israel. While TCS2 is oriented towards technical documentation, there is a great deal of crossover between CS4 users and TCS2 users. Together with Kelli Brown of CS4 Israel, I hope to facilitate meetings appealing directly to the digital graphics and technical communications worlds.

    Meetings will be held at least once a month beginning on May 21 from 4:30pm until 6pm at Mina House of Design, Rehov Sokolov, Ramat Gan.  Let me know what programming (speakers or classes) interests you.

    The goal of this group is to provide a non-political, non-competetive environment in which artists and writers can form alliances and share knowledge.

    Please share the group with others that might be interested.

    All the best,

    Shoshana Kleiman

    Group Manager

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  • Adobe in eLearning and Tech CommunicationAdobe Debuts Photoshop.com Mobile for Android - Nov 06

    Source: Adobe in eLearning and Tech Communication by RJ Jacquez

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 6, 2009 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android™ software, extending Adobe® industry-leading digital imaging technology to users of the Google Mobile™ operating system. The release comes less than a month after the launch of Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone, which quickly established itself as one of the “Top Free” applications on the Apple mobile platform. The Android application equips consumers with quick and easy image-editing tools, color adjustments and instant photo-sharing capabilities. Photoshop.com Mobile optimizes the camera-phone experience by allowing users to browse for their photos online and on their phone, directly from the application. The application is free and available today at the Android Market.

     

    The Photoshop.com team shared the following screenshots of the app,
    which I have made into a Captivate Slideshow. Click Play below to check them out.

    Additional Resources:

    Product Page URL

    http://mobile.photoshop.com/android

    Watch the Demo Video

    http://mobile.photoshop.com/android/howtovideo.html?sdid=FBNUA

    Follow Photoshop.com on Twitter @photoshop.com

    If you have an Android phone, I'd love to get your feedback regarding this app, please send me a Tweet @rjacquez

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  • I Came, I Saw, I Learned...Acrobat 9: Keyboard Shortcuts Galore - Nov 03

    Source: I Came, I Saw, I Learned... by Kevin Siegel

    by David R. Mankin, the Acrobat Czar

    While casually scanning the constant flow of Twitter topics this afternoon, something caught my eye--a quick promise of a free collection of Adobe CS4 keyboard shortcuts brought me to the Adobe Student Hub. It seems that Adobe is offering substantial discounts on their software to qualifying students -- "Adobe Student Editions software is for use by higher education students only." Fair enough.

    The site is annoyingly noisy (IMHO), and you can turn off the crazy electronic throbbing noise by clicking on the tiny speaker icon on the left (whew).

    Front and center is the Adobe Shortcut App. You can try this handy device live on the sight, as the site's whole 3D interface is Flash. Adobe Shortcut App contains keyboard shortcuts for ALL CS4 Apps! This is beyond convenient, since we tend to specialize in a program or two, but sometimes need to work with one of the suite's other programs.



    Click the CS4's individual program's icon at the top of the Shortcut App, and you are presented with appropriate keyboard shortcuts! Here's the best part: this cool application can be downloaded as an Adobe Air application! For me, this one's a keeper. Poke around at the site's other features. There's a Job Feed App to help you find a job using Adobe's awesome tools too.

    What's the catch? Well, the cool, free Adobe Shortcut App is a billboard which will always remind you of Adobe's terrific student pricing on the app--no big deal, considering how useful this free download can be!

    ***

    Looking for Acrobat training? We run an online Acrobat class once each month. Click here for more information and class dates.


    ***   About the author: In addition to recently being named the nation's Acrobat Czar, David R. Mankin is a Certified Technical Trainer, desktop publisher, computer graphic artist, and Web page developer. And if that wasn't enough, of course David is an Adobe-certified expert in Adobe Acrobat.
  • Captain CaptivateUsing Variables in Captivate 4: A Simple Page Counter - Oct 07

    Source: Captain Captivate by captivatehero

    Hello fellow Captivaters!

    This week I’m going to create a simple page counter using Captivate 4 variables that will keep track of the current slide that you are on and the total number of slides in your presentation.  (Example: Slide 3 of 20) This is a straightforward way of letting your audience members track their progress, and is especially helpful is you decide to ditch Captivate’s Skin for your own custom navigation controls.

    In prior versions of Captivate I created a Flash movie that would grab the existing slide variables with ActionScript 2.0 code and display them in an imported SWF. This was always a big hit in Captivate classes, but anyone who was not inclined to program was a little put off. Well no worries about code anymore. All you will need to pull this off is just a Text Caption and few clicks. Let’s get Captivating!

    1. On the Captivate opening screen under the Create Project column select Blank Project.

      Select Blank Project.

    2. The New Project dialog box appears. From the drop down list on the right choose 790 x 545 Browser.

      Choose 790 x 545 in the New Project dialog box.

    3. Click the OK button.
    4. A new untitled CP file is created. Save your work as SlideCounter.cp
    5. Add three blank slides by selecting Insert > Blank Slide three times. This will take you to the Edit View automatically.

      Create three Blank Slides.

    6. Select Slide 1 in your Filmstrip.
    7. Choose Insert > Standard Objects > Text Caption…

      Insert a Text Caption.

    8. The New Text Caption dialog box appears.
    9. Set up some simple Text Caption Properties
      • Caption type: [transparent]
      • Font: Arial
      • Size: 14
    10. Type the word “Slide” in the Caption editor.

      Select the Insert Variable button.

    11. Click on the Insert Variable button. The insert variable dialog box appears.
    12. Select System for the variable type.
    13. View by Movie Information.
    14. From the Variable list choose cpInfoCurrentSlide.

      Select the cpInfoCurrentSlide variable.

    15. Click the OK button.
    16. Type in the word “of” right after the inserted variable.

      This is what your text should look like.

    17. Click on the Insert Variable button again. The insert variable dialog box appears.
    18. Select System for the variable type.
    19. View by Movie Information.
    20. From the Variable list choose rdInfoSlideCount. You now have the variable in place. When these variables render they will display “Slide 1 of 4”. The first variable will resolve the current slide that you are on and the second will keep track of the total number of slides.

      Select the rdInfoSlideCount variable.

    21. Click the OK button in the Insert Variable dialog box to close out.

      Text Caption with variables added.

    22. Now it’s time to set up an object attribute to make sure that we can see our Simple Page Counter on all slides.
    23. With the New Text Caption dialog box still open click the Options Tab.
    24. In the Timing section – change the Display for: value to Rest of Project. This will allow the Page Counter to be visible on all slides.

      Display the Text Caption for "Rest of Project".

    25. Click the OK button.
    26. Preview your example by hitting the F4 key.

    You should now see your page counter read 1 of 3, 2 of 3, and 3 of 3 as it progresses through the slides.

    This is the final variable text rendered in the caption.

    If you see these results – well done!

    Sample File (520K)

    Now that’s real Captivate variable power.

  • Technical Communication SuiteFrameMaker: Making comments stand out - Jun 30

    Source: Technical Communication Suite by Samartha Vashishtha

    Consider this scenario: you're working in a FrameMaker document that uses a lot of conditional tags, including the conditional tag defined for comments and editorial notes. If you need to work on incorporating comments, you can display all the conditional content in the document with the condition indicators visible. However, browsing your way through the multi-colored text to look for comments may be difficult.

    A simple workaround here could be applying a character tag to the comments and editorial notes in addition to the conditional formatting. This way, even when the condition indicators are hidden, the comments and editorial notes in the document stand out from the rest of the content.

    The screenshot below illustrates the character tag Comment-text applied to editorial notes.


    Further reading

    If you need help creating a new character tag in FrameMaker, refer to "Character Formats" in FrameMaker web Help. To understand how to apply and manage conditional tags, see "Working in conditional documents".

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