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    Web survey

    My company are keen to have online questionnaires on several of their websites feeding into databases. Having no experience of SQL and .asp, I am unsure what to advise them. I have been involved in developing websites for some years now, but surprisingly, never at this level. I understand there...
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    Designing a brochure

    Hello I've been asked to design a 12 page A4 brochure. The trouble is, how do I layout the pages? Should it be 1 - 12 2 - 11 3 - 10 This shouldn't be a problem, except I need to insert some plans that run over 2 pages (eg. 8 and 9), which of course wouldn't be on the same piece of paper. Does...
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    Manipulating a picture box

    Hello, Any advice here would be greatly appreciated. I have a picture box in Quark 5, I want the top and sides of the box to be straight but the bottom to be curved. I know I could draw a picture box with the Bezier tool (but this is not one of my strengths). I have tried item > shape and...
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    Image quality

    Hello. I am a new user of Quark (please excuse my dumbness). I imported Jpg and Tif files into my document and want to send this file over to the printers. All images are have a resolution of 600 and are quite big files (some up to 3MB). However, my final .qxd file is a mere 400KB. This can't be...
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    Why do images look so terrible in Flash?

    I am assuming that this has been discussed before (could not find it though) so apologies if this is a common question. I tend to avoid importing photographic images into Flash, simply because they look so bad when the movie is published. But now I have a simple logo (gif) of two colours that...
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    Being artistic with Quark

    I am teaching myself Quark at the moment and am very surprised with its limitations. Having known for years, Quark is every graphic designer’s essential tool, I was expecting a drawing/page layout package. I think I was wrong on the "drawing" side of things. And am assuming that Quark...
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    Users without the Flash Plug In

    Two queries here really. Firstly, does anyone know the statistics of how many web users have the Flash plug-in installed? I am tempted to create Flash buttons in my new website, but don't want to make it inaccessible to those without the plug-in. Which leads me onto my second question, is there...
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    Please help a beginner

    I am just starting Quark Xpress and as someone who has a web background (as opposed to print) am finding it hard to get to grips with. A very simple question, but I can not, for the life of me, work it out. Have created a shape with the Bezier tool, but how do you add colour to the inside? Am I...
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    Servers that support Macromedia

    Please help. I work as a designer, so please excuse my ignorance on technical issues. Today my company have told me that the server in which our websites are hosted are to be replaced with a Lotus Notes Server. (I believe the one we have at the moment is a Virtual server?) As a result of this, I...
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    Scandisk

    My PC is a mess, and its about time I reformatted the hard drive. Trouble is my computer can't seem to get through Scandisk (even in Safe Mode - I use Windows) and it freezes 3/4 of the way through. I have been told that it is not a good idea to reformat your hard drive when there is obviously a...
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    should i throw out my monitor?

    I have had my monitor for 3 years, and the last 6 months it has been really playing up. I would just like some advice from people on whether its a "monitor" problem or something else. I get lines down the screen (similar to when a cell/mobile phone is next to it). These lines get so...
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    Problems with Fireworks 3

    Is there a bug in Fireworks 3? I have a problem with optimizing medium to large images. Quite often I am given the alert "Could not complete your request. An internal error occurred". Did Macromedia ever produce a patch to correct this? The whole point of Fireworks is to be able to...
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    Older versions of Acrobat Reader

    Please excuse me for asking a pretty simple and perhaps obviuos question. I have made a pdf file using Acrobat Writer 5 to be included on a website. My client is not happy because most of their customers only have Acrobat Reader 3 on their computers, and she says that they are unable to view my...
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    TABLES!!!!

    This is probably my biggest problem with Dreamweaver and I was wondering if perhaps there was a tip to avoid this. Once I have gone to all the trouble of making my page look exactly the way I want it using a table as a grid, it always looks completely different when viewed through a browser. I...
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    losing quality when using libraries

    When I create a library item, I lose the definition of the text in the gif's I create. It looks fine when viewing it through the library but as soon as I place it in a page, its unreadable. Does anyone know why? Or if I'm doing something wrong? HELP!
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    Bending text

    Hi, CorelDraw has a really good feature where text can follow any line. For example, text can sit nicely on the outlines of a circle, and bend round. I am sure PhotoShop must have a similar feature but I can't work out how to do it. Any advice would be helpful Jo
  17. jocoutts

    Random

    I know how to make ActionScript choose a random number between 1 and ?. But how exactly can ActionScript choose a sequence of numbers between, say 1 and 20, in random order, but so they are not repeated. At the moment, I have some code which instructs the frame to pick a random number between 1...
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    Functions (a stupid question)

    A very simple question: I've only started getting into functions. If you write a function, can you call it up from anywhere? Where is best to store a function? On the main timeline on a frame? In a separate movie? I've written a function, that ideally needs to be called up from different...
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    detecting Acrobat readers

    Is there a way of using JavaScript to detect whether the user has Acrobat reader installed on their PC? Thank you Jo
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    Opening files through Flash

    Is it possible to open files other than html and swf through a flash movie? I am using Flash at the moment to produce an exe. file, and I need to link the user to pdf and word documents on the CD ROM? Is this possible? Thank you

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