Recent content by hohriver

Thanks to all who replied. I think 'coldasrice' nailed it, but I appreciate all the responses. I have completed my project and moved on to...the next one! Peace. "The learning curve is a MYTH! Learning in this industry is represented best by a right angle..."

Marcus, Thank you for responding to my Drop Caps question. No, I don't believe there is a red '+' on the Style... I had to make a deadline on this project so I did my best to convey a sense of unity throughout the catalog; however, I was NEVER able to insert Drop Caps into any of the...

I posted previously about inconsistent behavior in InDesign while trying to implement a paragraph style containing Drop Caps, but no one replied. Hmmmm. Still need help, approaching drop deadline, and I'm worried. To review: I place some text from a word document, then select it and click on...

I am designing a 32-page catalog for a literary press. I want to use Drop caps in the excerpts which appear on each page, and I would like this to be uniform and consistent. However, I'm only having about 50% success at transforming the first character ( sometimes two characters, when a...

Bizgirl, I teach Illustrator 10 at the Technical College level, and the advice you have received from BlueArk is good advice. It kind of sounds as if you are in over your head with this new "position". I know the feeling. My advice would be to lose PageMaker. PageMaker is an...

Somewhere along the line I have seen how to apply a Gradient as a Layer Mask. Now I've forgotten the technique used. Can anyone tell me the steps to implement? "The learning curve is a MYTH! Learning in this industry is represented best by a right angle..."

I should know the answer to these questions, but alas, I do not. I often experience my students in the Intro to Illustrator course I teach trying to perform the equivalent of 'erasing', like one can do in Photoshop. Short of removing anchor points, I never have a good answer for them about how...

1. Yes, Illustrator is the better application to use for creating logos; this is due to the infinite scalability provided by vector graphics (SVG), and the elimination of the 'jaggies' which often degrade edges of type or lines. 2. I agree that EPS would be preferred file format. 3. Before...

To respond to Jeep's question: no, even when moving items to Back, there are no 'objectionable' objects revealed to select and cut... It's a headscratcher....and to make it worse, my wife keeps forgetting how to implement the arcane workaround I devised for her, so she keeps calling me at work...

When creating onMouseover's in Dreamweaver, I've encountered the problem of the functions and variables basically being designated as the same 'name', when attempting to include multiple SEPERATE rollover events on a single page of HTML. Although I have some familiarity with JavaScript, it...

polda/zefir: thanks for pointing me in a few germane directions. I reconfigured the prefs for high resolution display, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I can see or witness the poor resolution or degrading before I ever send it to print, and then when I try printing it, it prints...

O.K., I'm having a big problem with Pagemaker 7.0 and importing image files: they all lose resolution and quality and PLACE horribly degraded. Doesn't matter what file format I use, EPS, TIF, GIF, JPEG, BMP. End result = GARBAGE. I cannot recall facing this troubleshooting difficulty with...

I have just switched from 6.5 to 7.0; I do not see any "vast" improvements in the newer version. It's more like 6.5 with patches, and extra goodies in the goodies library (clip art stuff). I am, however, experiencing a new set of unique problems to troubleshoot running 7.0. I'm...

My wife is running Pagemaker 7.0 on Windows 98 platform, and encountering a problem that has me stumped. When trying to print a menu for her cafe, black rectangle objects appear on the print-out near the bottom of the page. In Actual View, no such objects "seem" to exist; no...

Much to my surprise and amazement I've discovered a co-worker here has been routinely "saving" screenshots as GIF's in Paint Shop Pro and receiving results that are optimized and compressed far greater than I can manage with even Fireworks 4.0! There are no settings or choices...