tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81241716997504866512024-03-12T19:50:57.913-07:00Document GeekTutorials specializing in long documents, print production, InDesign, Acrobat, and occasionally Knitting. Kelly Vaughnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522405615993478455noreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-71058552449282035612021-11-09T05:58:00.003-08:002022-06-28T08:53:09.999-07:00My Family's Christmas Stocking Pattern<p>Using this design, I have been making Christmas stockings for my family since 2008. Though I am not the original author of this design, I am posting them here for posterity, because the original source no longer exists. These are the Christmas 2007 Motifs inspired by USPS stamps, designed by Nancy Stahl, and charted by a kind gentleman named Joey. </p><p>You can find the <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/christmas-2007-motifs-inspired-by-usps-stamps" target="_blank">notes about this pattern</a> on Ravelry.</p><p>Here is how I use these motifs:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Cast on 60 sts in contrast color. Work in contrast color (red, blue, brown, etc) flat in 1x1 rib for 8 rows.</li><li>Switch to Stst. Work 3 rows white.</li><li>Work the Name in fair isle (8 sts tall)</li><li>Work three rows white.</li><li>Work 8 rows contrast color. </li><li>Work your stamp pattern (bear, snowman, tree, or deer), leaving a few extra stitches of white on either side of the pattern. As you work the motif, decrease one stitch on either side every 10 rows, to give the stocking a little shaping.</li><li>Work 3 rows StSt in white.</li><li>Work 8 rows St St in contrast color.</li><li>Divide stitches in half and work 8 rows white. The front heel gusset will need to be below the center of the motif.</li><li>Work 8 rows in contrast color (still working in two sections (from half and back half)</li><li>Work a heel flap and gusset in white.</li><li>Join in the round and work 8 rows in White in StSt</li><li>Work 8 rows Contrast color.</li><li>Work 8 rows white</li><li>Work 4 four CC and start doing your decreases on row 5. Decrease 4 sts every other row.</li><li>Continue working 8 rows CC and 8 rows white until you reach 8 sts. Draw through the yarn through the last 8 sts.</li><li>Sew up gusset.</li><li>Add bells as desired.</li><li>Make an i-Cord or braided loop hanger.</li></ol><p></p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_-m9e8W1lU/YYp9SAy-21I/AAAAAAAACX4/nWz9tKIPTrgEOWfD4JR4g-_EbGv1WBoBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s841/Bear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_-m9e8W1lU/YYp9SAy-21I/AAAAAAAACX4/nWz9tKIPTrgEOWfD4JR4g-_EbGv1WBoBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bear.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DD5Lwb9kEPA/YYp9R8dLUII/AAAAAAAACXw/qoi0o6RbPqc1AbwyGLNX7rTxi0YE_sGXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s870/Snowman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DD5Lwb9kEPA/YYp9R8dLUII/AAAAAAAACXw/qoi0o6RbPqc1AbwyGLNX7rTxi0YE_sGXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Snowman.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AY4I0mf4boM/YYp9R8n55YI/AAAAAAAACX0/gJ7y5jirJeAPQhIaAYfpI5taq61qHgn1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s844/Stag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AY4I0mf4boM/YYp9R8n55YI/AAAAAAAACX0/gJ7y5jirJeAPQhIaAYfpI5taq61qHgn1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stag.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LUUyhezVSy4/YYp9ST5bUFI/AAAAAAAACX8/jvhItyHbgCopoM2ktzuNz-EqzXUYCbgLACLcBGAsYHQ/s870/Tree.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LUUyhezVSy4/YYp9ST5bUFI/AAAAAAAACX8/jvhItyHbgCopoM2ktzuNz-EqzXUYCbgLACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tree.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-18101954654596199872020-05-08T04:28:00.000-07:002020-06-02T10:55:14.428-07:00Musings on the topic: "Should I Edit this PDF?"<br />
This is discussion from the <a href="https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/weird-bolding-and-changing-ordered-lists/td-p/11114294">Acrobat forums</a>, where I helped a user make PDF edits.<br />
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<i>I'm editing a PDF. I don't have the original Word document. My client provided me with Word documents that were converted from the PDFs. I'm inserting into the main document. I have be 4 document that I am combining portions into my main document. te Word documents were so messed up that I chose to edit the main PDF.
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<li><i>When I paste into my main document, some letters are bold, though when I try to unbold them, they don't. Usually, it's a few letters in a paragraph. Other times, it's most of the letters in a paragraph.</i></li>
<li><i>How to get a hanging indent on a numbered list. Or indenting an entire paragraph?</i></li>
<li><i>Changing a number or letter in a ordered list? </i></li>
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Honestly, editing a PDF in Acrobat is rather unpredictable, to put it gently. Acrobat is great at a lot of things, but precise formatting is not one of those things. I reccomend you recreate the documents from scratch in a proper program, such as Word or InDesign, that will give you control over the formatting.
But if you must just continue using Acrobat to edit the PDF, here are some things to try.<br />
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<li>Hanging indent: Make a separate text box for the numbered list. To indent an entire paragraph, use the Edit tool to resize the text box. It's worth noting that Acrobat doesn't treat text editing like a word processing program, where you can set precise measurements for things like indents, margins, tabs, etc., and expect to be able to use them document-wide. Think of editing in Acrobat more like each individual text box is a separate piece piece of paper, cut out and pasted onto the page. Each text box has absolutely nothing to do with the other text boxes.
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<li>The boxes you're experiencing aren't form the document getting created in Word. That's just the way Acrobat handles text editing. It does it's best shot at figuring out which boxes go together.
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My final words of advice are to think of text editing in Acrobat like using white-out on a printed copy. If the change in your text is small enough that it can be done with white-out, then its appropriate to do that change in Acrobat. If the changes will require half the document to be whited-out, then Acrobat is not the place to make those changes. Go back to the original source document. If you don't have the original document, recreate it, or at least recreate just those pages (in your word processing tool of choice) and then replace those pages in the PDF.<br />
<br />Kelly Vaughnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522405615993478455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-56482357018779835952020-04-13T08:36:00.001-07:002020-04-13T08:36:25.649-07:00Stockinette Stitch Knitting FontsIn my career, my time is spent at the intersection of two industries, of multiple programs, and generally wherever two typically unrelated topics converge. Those areas are often of the greatest interest to me, because they remain largely unexplored. Come with me friends, as I take you on a tour of a bit of that dual existence in my life: at the intersection of multiples worlds, where knitting, font design, and graphic design software merge.<br />
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It's important to understand the reasoning behind the necessity of creating this knitting font. Upon searching for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=knitting+font">Knitting fonts</a> online, you'll come upon a mish mash collection of cross stitch letters, letters made to look like string, and stitches that don't line up... the list of inaccurate knitted alphabets goes on and on. As a knitter, I think it's important that if you're going to design a "knitting font" that you get the details right. Most of the knitted fonts that exist don't get the details correct, and obviously made by non-knitters.<br />
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<b>1. The alphabet is actually not a font, but a vector stock art alphabet.</b><br />
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<b>2. The stitches aren't curved like actual knitted stitches are. They're made of straight lines.</b></div>
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<b>3. The letters are regular letter shapes, used as a clipping path for a raster image.</b></div>
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<b>4. The stitches don't line up.</b> The left and right hand side of the stitches should be on the same vertical plane. While the technique below adds visual interest, it is not representative of the true shape of knitted stitches. Plus, the stitches look like little grains of rice. This example, however, does an excellent job of incorporating both sides of the stitch into the design of the letterforms (and not chopping off one half where it is deemed unsightly).</div>
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<b>5. The right and left side of each stitch are joined.</b> Knitted stitches are not little hearts. Knitted stitches are actually horseshoe shaped, and mirror each other on around a vertical axis, with a little bit of space in between each half of the stitch.</div>
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<b>5. No background stitches. </b>When knitting letters in a design in a physical piece of knitting, they are integrated into the fabric itself, they don't float magically in the air. Hence, the need for background stitches. The background stitches are just as much part of the design as the letters themselves. While it's true that the letterforms can be used without the background stitches (as in the example below), for maximum usability, as well as accuracy in representation to a physically knitted fabric, there should be background stitches available, either as alternate characters, or as a second member of the font family.</div>
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<b>6. Spaces not handled properly.</b> When uses spaces in a knitted design, there are background stitches in the fabric. This font gets a some of the other technical details correct, but it makes no account for the spaces between the words. </div>
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Once spaces are added, things break down. The background stitches are gone. We can work around this using some special characters and GREP Styles in InDesign, but in this particular font, the character sets don't match, and the necessary glyphs weren't made to allow the background stitches to be used. </div>
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<b>7. Stitches chopped off.</b> Here in another font that makes a fair attempt at knitted stitches. Like the font above, it has no background stitches. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">If you look closely, it's clear that the details are wrong. In the corners, the side half of the some of the stitches are chopped off. While that does make the diagonals look a little smoother, it's not technically accurate. This was obviously not designed by a knitter.</span></div>
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<b>8. Incomplete character set. </b>This is the closest one that I found to an actual knitting font. The shapes of the stitches are correct, the stitches line up, the style of the letterforms is accurate for what knitters use; it's pretty great. It's even in a style common to what a knitter would actually use when knitting names into a garment. The issues that I encountered are that it doesn't have a full character set, and there are no background stitches built into the font itself. So when using this for graphic design it <i>must</i> be used in conjunction with the vector background that is packaged with the font. </div>
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So why make a my own custom knitting fonts?</h4>
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While I can manually create these fair isle letters in Illustrator each time I need them, it's a tedious process to do just every once in awhile. I wanted an alphabet that I can quickly use whenever I need to plan some knitted lettering. For example, I've been making family Christmas stockings for over a decade. I've lost track of how many I've made. It would be really great to just type up my name chart quickly each time I go to start a stocking, rather than get out graph paper and draw it.</div>
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By incorporating advanced typographic features like ligatures, I can have more flexibility when working with a set number of stitches. Take these stocking for example. Each name needs to fit within 28 stitches. That's why in the BAILEY and the ASHLYN stockings, the Ys are different. Bailey's name is 6 letters long. Ashlyn's name is 7 letters long and required the stitches to have tighter tracking. The Y is very closely aligned to the L in front of it. Having ligatures and alternate characters in the font allows this to happen either automatically or manually.</div>
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Plus, if I have these alphabets as actual fonts, I can quickly and easily typeset knitting letter charts for other knitters on my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/791169891/custom-fair-isle-alphabet-name-chart-in">Etsy shop</a>. I can also use these fonts to personalize my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/knitswag">KnitSwag products.</a></div>
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<li>Stitches aligned to a grid (not offset in any way)</li>
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<li>Incorporate the use of ligatures so that character placement can be adjusted to fit a set number of stitches</li>
<li>Available in different number of stitches high, in order to be used for different types of projects</li>
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<li>Uses a second font with each font family, for background stitches</li>
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I used Adobe InDesign and <a href="http://www.indiscripts.com/category/projects/IndyFont">IndyFont Pro</a> to create my custom knitting fonts. IndyFont Pro is a dream come true! It lets me use the software that I know and love to create fonts. The free version lets you create a single character (for bullets), but the Pro version lets you create full character sets. It's well documented, and the <a href="http://www.indiscripts.com/blog/public/scripts/en_IndyFont-Manual.pdf">user manual</a> is one of the best I've ever seen!</div>
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So far I've created two versions of stockinette stitch fair isle knitting fonts: an 8 stitch high and an 11 stitch high version. They are the only knitting fonts of their kind! I'll be designing more in the coming weeks. Would you like to have a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/791169891/custom-fair-isle-alphabet-name-chart">custom name chart</a> in these fonts? Head on over to my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/knitswag">Etsy shop </a>and I'll set you set up! I made these fair isle alphabets with specifically with knitters in mind.</div>
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In my knitting life, I sometimes do a type of knitting called <i>Fair Isle</i>. In popular culture, this is associated with Ugly Christmas sweaters. But in the knitting world, this has been a sophisticated and much loved technique that has existed for centuries before. Do a quick search for <i><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stranded+color+work+knitting&t=osx&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images">stranded color work knitting</a> or <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fair+isle+knitting&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images">fair isle knitting</a> </i>and you'll find hundred of beautiful designs.<br />
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The essence of Fair Isle is that it follows a color chart to indicate which color of yarn to use on which stitches. Usually, two strands of yarn are used on each row, and the unused strand of yarn is held at the back of the work. Usually, the color charts for this type of knitting are created in a spreadsheet program.<br />
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As a knitter, the issue that I've run into is that knitting stitches are not square. It's simple enough to make the spreadsheet cells roughly proportional to the dimensions of a knitted stitch (roughly 1 wide by .75 high). But once those designs are knitted, the result can be disappointing, because not only are knitted stitches not square, they're not rectangular either. They are <i>horseshoe</i> shaped. Many times, illustrators will draw them as Vs because that's the part of the stitch that is visible from the front of the work. This is especially apparent when using fair isle to design letterforms. Shapes that would normally have lovely curves and smooth diagonals, can have jagged edges.<br />
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You may notice that the Vs in the knitted piece below are actually upside-down; this is because this stocking was knit from the top-down, so the knitting is actually upside down while being knitted.<br />
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Traditional graph-paper style charts cannot account for this end result. So help knitters better visualize how their final designs will look when knitted, I designed an accurate fair isle chart, made not of rectangles, but of actual knitted stitches. </div>
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This is a BLANK fair isle knitting chart (available in both <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/762103814/blank-fair-isle-knitting-chart-for">landscape</a> and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/762103148/blank-fair-isle-knitting-chart-for">portrait</a>). This chart comes with two versions: one has gridlines and the other does not. On the gridded version, every fifth row and column is a darker shaded outline.</div>
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It works for both top-down as well as bottom-up knitting. If you are a knitter and want a better type of knitting graph paper, then this is for you! </div>
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<br /></div></div>Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-82270248299770338572019-09-26T13:18:00.001-07:002019-09-27T15:22:38.015-07:00Making Sense of the Color Panels in Adobe AcrobatSince the introduction of Acrobat DC, users have been lamenting the fact that there is seemingly no way to have a shape with "No Fill." I wrote about that extensively here: <a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-to-make-pdf-drawing-markup-with-no.html">How to Make a PDF Drawing markup with "No Fill"</a><br />
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The issue stems from Acrobat DC's redesign of the way that users choose colors. This redesign didn't make it's way into the other two places where users can choose colors but was an introduction of the Color Picker tool with a paint bucket icon. At some point is was changed to a large colored dot renamed "Change Color"). No matter what the icon, and what it was named, this tool seemed to oblivious the other two methods of choosing colors.<br />
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In responding to <a href="https://community.adobe.com/t5/Acrobat/How-to-turn-off-bounding-box/m-p/10634120">a post on the Acrobat forums</a>, I did a little digging to the color pane that Acrobat uses to choose colors. By clicking on the sprocket Options icon of the Choose Colors tool, the Properties dialog box opens. In 2018, it looked like this. By click on one of the swatches (either Color or Fill Color), a second dialog box would open. This used to be an Acrobat-specific swatch panel, but at some point was changed to use the OS-specific color picker. This is what it looks like on a Mac.<br />
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Sometime between 2018 and September 2019, the Color picker changed. Now it has a "Transparent" checkbox.</div>
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The issue with the word "Transparent" is that has varying degrees implied to it. Like a slider. The transparent object can be <i>partially</i> transparent, or <i>fully</i> transparent, and anywhere in between. Plus, one can <i>see through</i> transparent objects, but the word implies that a viewer can also see the object itself, in addition to seeing the object <i>behind</i> the transparent object; Like what happens when you look through a window or a water glass.</div>
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Not so with the "Transparent" checkbox shown above. It's an all or nothing. This confusion is compounded but the fact that Acrobat annotations also have an <i>opacity</i> setting, which is a slider (as it should be). This opacity slider has nothing to do with the "Transparent" checkbox in the Colors pane. But the average Acrobat user isn't going to know that.</div>
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In the graphic design industry, <i>transparency</i> also implies that there are <i>multiple</i> layers or objects, all stacked on top of each other. And in printing workflows, how one handles transparency can determine the success or failure of a print job. So among designers, transparency is something to be handled delicately.</div>
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<li>They cannot click on the red diagonal line in the swatch panel. Because unless they click the "Transparent" checkbox, that swatch UI doesn't exist.</li>
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But what if you want the numbers to be assigned from top-to-bottom and the left to right? It’s possible, but not inside of a table. With Western languages, text flows from top to bottom, and right to left. So what we need to do is construct our numbered list in a way that matches that flow. And then add the borders.
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This is the You can choose to either <b>view</b> or <b>control</b>. If you want to <i>control</i> someone's screen, you have to be the one to initiate the process. Then the person on the other end will get this dialog box.</div>
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I had my husband ask to share my screen, and he happened to be connected to our Apple TV via AirPlay. And I heard my own voice come through the speakers on the TV!<br />
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The mercized cotton thread, worked in beaded stockinette stitch, offers a visually interesting contrast to the chunky garter bands. Since both yarns are cotton, this wrap makes the perfect accessory to take the chill off on a crisp spring day.<br />
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<li>Lion Brand Comfy Cotton, Approx 125 g.</li>
<li>Red Heart Classic Crochet Thread: “Natural” (approx 175 yards)</li>
<li>Package of #10 glass E beads (40 g/1.41 oz)</li>
<li>Size 10 US (6 mm), 24” circular needles</li>
<li>Size 4 US (3.5 mm) 24” circular needles</li>
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Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-46560648504795653712019-06-03T09:10:00.000-07:002019-06-03T09:10:16.910-07:00How to Install a Script to Acrobat's MenuThis post goes along with an Acrobat script: <a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/01/an-easier-way-to-mark-comments-as.html">An Easier Way to Mark Comments as Checked in Acrobat DC</a>.<br />
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<li>Enable menu items JavaScript execution privileges - should be checked</li>
<li>Enable interactive console - should be checked</li>
<li>Show console on errors and messages - should be checked</li>
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<li><b>Windows (32 bit): </b>C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat <VERSION NUMBER>\Acrobat\JavaScripts</li>
<li><b>Windows (64 bit):</b> C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat <VERSION NUMBER>\Acrobat\JavaScripts</li>
<li><b>Mac: </b> /Users/<USERNAME>/Library/<wbr></wbr>Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/<<wbr></wbr>VERSION>/JavaScripts</li>
<li><b>or </b>/Applications/Adobe Acrobat <VERSION>/Adobe Acrobat Pro.app/Contents/Resources/<wbr></wbr>JavaScripts</li>
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Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-66380137937073479272019-06-03T06:37:00.003-07:002019-08-28T16:55:59.331-07:00Why Won't InDesign Sample Scripts work in InDesign 2019?I encountered a strange issue recently. I was creating a business card imposition in InDesign. I opened the Scripts panel, and then ran CropMarks.applescript. Nothing happened.<br />
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My compute seemingly locked up for a moment, but no crop marks appeared. After a minute or so of investigation, I realized that InDesign 2018 had launched. But I was using InDesign 2019...<br />
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The workaround is that you simply need to change them to be "2019" instead of "2018." Alternatively, you can use the corresponding sample javascripts in the Samples folder for the job.</div>
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<a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/09/beware-of-dropbox-commenting.html">Beware of Dropbox Commenting</a><br />
<a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/09/more-reasons-to-hate-dropbox-commenting.html">More Reasons to Hate Dropbox Commenting</a><br />
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Well no more, my friends! We are one step closer to a solution to group collaboration. A client of mine made comments in the dropbox web app, and I was notified. When I took a look at the comments, I was shocked to see that they also appear now in Acrobat!<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OFX5IwE4T_c/XMczPnNrn3I/AAAAAAAACC8/7KwdPXqA0sMSPYNzxQgjjIFzRz-X8_c8QCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-29%2Bat%2B1.24.04%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="89" data-original-width="327" height="87" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OFX5IwE4T_c/XMczPnNrn3I/AAAAAAAACC8/7KwdPXqA0sMSPYNzxQgjjIFzRz-X8_c8QCLcBGAs/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-04-29%2Bat%2B1.24.04%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">File Names are automatically appended with "See Comments"</td></tr>
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<li>I tried adding a comment in Acrobat to see if the comment would then show up in the web interface of Dropbox. Sadly, it doesn't. </li>
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<li>I also don't view a web interface as an acceptable solution for commenting on long documents, since there is so much scrolling involved. And the tools are limited to boxes and sticky notes (no text annotation).</li>
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But at least now I don't have to warn my clients to NEVER use dropbox commenting. </div>
Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-69044764768644969452019-03-25T10:42:00.001-07:002019-03-26T05:56:54.345-07:00After More Than a Decade, a New Comment Icon in Acrobat! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Many Acrobat users don't know that there is more than one type of sticky note icon in Acrobat. I wrote about those here: <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-case-for-still-using-deprecated.html">The Case for Still Using the Deprecated Features in Acrobat, Part 1: The Properties Toolbar</a></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gxcbw6mlvXk/WD84Q9U3h8I/AAAAAAAAApg/bzcjlih69MY9HvhcSaqj3He2Kowt5L7JACLcB/s400/StickyNoteIcon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="285" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gxcbw6mlvXk/WD84Q9U3h8I/AAAAAAAAApg/bzcjlih69MY9HvhcSaqj3He2Kowt5L7JACLcB/s400/StickyNoteIcon.png" width="285" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acrobat list of Icon types</td></tr>
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It seems to be that the icons are at least somewhat standardized across PDF viewers. Bluebeam Revu has the same icons (minus "Insert Text").<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SooyooZtj9A/XJkC0W6GRCI/AAAAAAAACAU/7lla8i4Y7UQ6JO8e6-d-ucAfFgAWU_xNQCLcBGAs/s1600/RevuIcons.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="140" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SooyooZtj9A/XJkC0W6GRCI/AAAAAAAACAU/7lla8i4Y7UQ6JO8e6-d-ucAfFgAWU_xNQCLcBGAs/s400/RevuIcons.png" width="193" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bluebeam Revu list of Icon types</td></tr>
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I noticed that Acrobat recently added a new icon! The reason for it has to do with the latest (and <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2541730">hugely unpopular</a>) changes to the Acrobat commenting tools. But at least now one of the issues is sort of addresses. It's been very difficult to see which comments are selected in the desktop version of the program, as I demonstrated in this feature request: <a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/31472122-comments-and-annotations-need-marching-ants">Comments and Annotations need marching ants</a><br />
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Adobe has heard our requests, and although they didn't implement the solution as I would have, they at least made it easier to see the various comments now. When you mouse over one of them, it gets enlarged. Sadly, it only works with the speech bubble type comment. So if you use any of the other 16 icons, this feature doesn't work. At least it works, with different colors so we're not limited to yellow.<br />
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This new icon is called "Selected Comment." It should really be named "Hovered Over", since it works when a comment is hover over, not when it's selected.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S7ZqG-zivzM/XJkJEATr1iI/AAAAAAAACAg/ojA-rtJEZnA__n75sXumX4i8-33jTBCmQCLcBGAs/s1600/Untitled3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="98" data-original-width="146" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S7ZqG-zivzM/XJkJEATr1iI/AAAAAAAACAg/ojA-rtJEZnA__n75sXumX4i8-33jTBCmQCLcBGAs/s1600/Untitled3.gif" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hover over the speech bubble icon and it will enlarge</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HD1J-AFo0Tc/XJkJj547vmI/AAAAAAAACAo/2X3EwfKTnn04oan-WHeWz2ggu2tBBVbdgCLcBGAs/s1600/ListofIconTypes.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="207" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HD1J-AFo0Tc/XJkJj547vmI/AAAAAAAACAo/2X3EwfKTnn04oan-WHeWz2ggu2tBBVbdgCLcBGAs/s320/ListofIconTypes.png" width="94" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Acrobat list of Icon Types</td></tr>
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Icon Confusion</h4>
Adobe seems to really be steering its user towards the "speech bubble" icon and away from all other comment icons. They failed to incorporate the different icons into the tools panel at all. One has to know about the deprecated "<a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-case-for-still-using-deprecated.html">Properties Toolbar</a>" to utilize the different icons. But the new releases of Acrobat ignore the various icons.<br />
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Here are the commenting tool options in Acrobat DC web.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KAcUJqA2Jgo/XJkNKh_Oq5I/AAAAAAAACA0/ucyCY1mGiE8RYVS1_JkZ5oM1deDYGtMGQCLcBGAs/s1600/AcrobatDCWEb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="61" data-original-width="239" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KAcUJqA2Jgo/XJkNKh_Oq5I/AAAAAAAACA0/ucyCY1mGiE8RYVS1_JkZ5oM1deDYGtMGQCLcBGAs/s1600/AcrobatDCWEb.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Only a Few commenting tools were included in the web version of Acrobat DC</td></tr>
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To make things more confusing, while the "comment" icon at the top is a rectangular speech bubble, all the comments within the body of the document are displayed as round speech bubbles.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OZnn4uqu4c4/XJkNR_0muJI/AAAAAAAACA4/p_gKIdevvb4uIXhTPjNDHJBwm5GPIvzmwCLcBGAs/s1600/AcrobatDCIconsChangedToSpeechBubble.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OZnn4uqu4c4/XJkNR_0muJI/AAAAAAAACA4/p_gKIdevvb4uIXhTPjNDHJBwm5GPIvzmwCLcBGAs/s1600/AcrobatDCIconsChangedToSpeechBubble.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the icons are displayed as speech bubbles</td></tr>
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Unless of course, you view it in Acrobat desktop version. Then the icon types get changed to the Reviewer's Adobe avatar (which is <i>ridiculously</i> hard to change, by the way). And I have no idea why the comment icon is red.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IOrdfoW1P70/XJkPMYhZobI/AAAAAAAACBQ/UPYLELJMcUkoarihczgOXk1A-Vicf3dgQCEwYBhgL/s1600/MyIconisinthecommentspane.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="111" data-original-width="489" height="90" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IOrdfoW1P70/XJkPMYhZobI/AAAAAAAACBQ/UPYLELJMcUkoarihczgOXk1A-Vicf3dgQCEwYBhgL/s400/MyIconisinthecommentspane.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look, my Document Geek logo has replaced the icon type! WTH?</td></tr>
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Also, when I click on the comment, there are no no properties associated with it. At. All. ???</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OW_A3NhF2TI/XJkRvnMmFwI/AAAAAAAACBo/iHPY3MaLdDEuiVx7ww56Yi-omqK5KRvEACLcBGAs/s1600/NoProperties.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="543" height="115" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OW_A3NhF2TI/XJkRvnMmFwI/AAAAAAAACBo/iHPY3MaLdDEuiVx7ww56Yi-omqK5KRvEACLcBGAs/s400/NoProperties.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look ma! No properties!</td></tr>
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If a reviewer hasn't given themselves an Adobe avatar, they get a generic one. So that means that instead of useful icons, all of my documents will now have the same generic gray avatar in every single comment.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QhNcRiMNC14/XJkPtYG8gLI/AAAAAAAACBc/z_Uu4APiawABLpCzQFWWXY6NFOr7UnZYACLcBGAs/s1600/GenericHeadAvatar.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="86" data-original-width="295" height="116" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QhNcRiMNC14/XJkPtYG8gLI/AAAAAAAACBc/z_Uu4APiawABLpCzQFWWXY6NFOr7UnZYACLcBGAs/s400/GenericHeadAvatar.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Generic Head Avatar</td></tr>
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Commenting Tool Differences</h4>
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The list of commenting tools available is robust in the desktop version. The way it should be!</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hqXUP9U_W7Q/XJkPFqDnK1I/AAAAAAAACBI/uFEsuV7BOoYRRwEGDFenThwO6y6ljXD3gCLcBGAs/s1600/IconsWhenusingDeskopversionofacrobatdc.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="49" data-original-width="836" height="22" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hqXUP9U_W7Q/XJkPFqDnK1I/AAAAAAAACBI/uFEsuV7BOoYRRwEGDFenThwO6y6ljXD3gCLcBGAs/s400/IconsWhenusingDeskopversionofacrobatdc.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acrobat DC Desktop Version commenting tools</td></tr>
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The toolset is very limited in the web version. And the icons are different<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KAcUJqA2Jgo/XJkNKh_Oq5I/AAAAAAAACA8/yO3zEkswBRcqfObWg6AqBT-yOgVfcv_qwCEwYBhgL/s1600/AcrobatDCWEb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="61" data-original-width="239" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KAcUJqA2Jgo/XJkNKh_Oq5I/AAAAAAAACA8/yO3zEkswBRcqfObWg6AqBT-yOgVfcv_qwCEwYBhgL/s1600/AcrobatDCWEb.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acrobat DC for web commenting tools</td></tr>
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If you open a document review from the web, into Acrobat, the toolset is now limited to those tools available in the web version of Acrobat. But the icons are slightly different.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8hrC2NzDv8/XJkPJyKfjWI/AAAAAAAACBY/WtJda3DVEAI08tVWDzm3Vlw8p9zBzqFYACEwYBhgL/s1600/IConswhenusingwebversionofAcrobat.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="418" height="33" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8hrC2NzDv8/XJkPJyKfjWI/AAAAAAAACBY/WtJda3DVEAI08tVWDzm3Vlw8p9zBzqFYACEwYBhgL/s320/IConswhenusingwebversionofAcrobat.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acrobat DC tools: desktop version, but Document opened from a shared review</td></tr>
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<h4>
Stick with one type of Review</h4>
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In my opinion, it's best to stick with one type of review method. If you use the desktop version and some sort of cloud sharing method (like dropbox), stick with it. You'll have the full range of tools available to you. But if all you want to do is add a few sticky notes (as was done in the Adobe demo files for the Acrobat DC for web videos), then by all means, use the Shared Review and comment in your documents in your web browser of choice.</div>
Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-83933594830486163662019-02-27T14:51:00.000-08:002019-03-26T06:00:22.039-07:00Commenting Panes: a Comparison Between Acrobat DC and Bluebeam RevuI've been an Acrobat user for nearly 20 years. I also daily monitor the Adobe Acrobat forums and answer questions from other Acrobat users. I've even recorded a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/learning/adobe-acrobat-dc-pdf-commenting-for-aec">LinkedInLearning course on Acrobat</a>. I've pushed Acrobat as far as I can take it for my PDF commenting needs. I still use Acrobat daily for other functions, but for nearly all my PDF commenting, I now use Bluebeam Revu.<br />
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Bluebeam Revu was designed by engineers, for reviewing engineering drawings. And since much of my work involves doing just that, I've found that Bluebeam Revu meets my needs like no other PDF editing software. Today, I'd like to show in detail one of the reasons I like it so much.<br />
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I have an 11x17 mechanical arrangement which I've color coded by system. At first, the two programs don't look that much different.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lMt5sMo73dk/XHboESxKN5I/AAAAAAAAB-Y/xxzxj830lXEfx4EgT9kpZlmnEwWrJ6VNwCLcBGAs/s1600/AcrobatDC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="313" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lMt5sMo73dk/XHboESxKN5I/AAAAAAAAB-Y/xxzxj830lXEfx4EgT9kpZlmnEwWrJ6VNwCLcBGAs/s400/AcrobatDC.png" width="287" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comments Sorted By Color: Acrobat DC</td></tr>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1ejImf0JxQ/XHboKQGVssI/AAAAAAAAB-c/k7V6s8MftBImXFHGVQcw04j64cg3xOKaACLcBGAs/s1600/Bluebeam%2BRevu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="574" height="191" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1ejImf0JxQ/XHboKQGVssI/AAAAAAAAB-c/k7V6s8MftBImXFHGVQcw04j64cg3xOKaACLcBGAs/s400/Bluebeam%2BRevu.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comments Sorted By Color: Bluebeam Revu</td></tr>
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While both sets of comments are listed in collapsable groups, the comments in Revu also display important categories in columns, much like a spreadsheet.<br />
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Here they are expanded. Notice how the color and a checkbox are both displayed in each and every comment. Because the comments pane is totally customizable, I've chosen to hide the irrelevant information, such as author name and date.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQetqcsYVik/XHbnboLC4PI/AAAAAAAAB-Q/wlHzAlVwXdEvMpMg-kh47dV1zVsIAL1oQCEwYBhgL/s1600/SortCommentsByColor_Revu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="569" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQetqcsYVik/XHbnboLC4PI/AAAAAAAAB-Q/wlHzAlVwXdEvMpMg-kh47dV1zVsIAL1oQCEwYBhgL/s400/SortCommentsByColor_Revu.png" width="212" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Expanded Comments: Bluebeam Revu</td></tr>
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Now take a look at the same set of comments in Acrobat DC. Notice how prominent the author name and date are in the Acrobat comments pane. The icons are also huge, and gray (and <a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/35645332-your-circular-icons-in-the-comment-panel-are-painf">unpopular</a>). And the checkboxes are not there. (If you want to mark something as checked, you first have to click on the comment to have the checkbox display, then you have to click on the checkbox. Each. And. Every. Time.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nfSluWXFmd0/XHbnbI4-VhI/AAAAAAAAB-A/L1TZM0Nl8k01LzpwNJXZprGZogbux99vgCLcBGAs/s1600/SortCommentsByColor_DC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="314" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nfSluWXFmd0/XHbnbI4-VhI/AAAAAAAAB-A/L1TZM0Nl8k01LzpwNJXZprGZogbux99vgCLcBGAs/s400/SortCommentsByColor_DC.png" width="87" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Expanded Comments: Acrobat DC</td></tr>
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Now let's take a look at how the comments display when additional information is added. I've chosen to display the author name, page, and comments. Again, all the content is displayed in a handy grid, making it very simple to scroll through the list and look for the information I need. Easy!</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0lR1nnS7NGg/XHbnbH2cRKI/AAAAAAAAB98/UWGBilrRrBIIJkrIH8u0ILIUIGVLMS2EgCLcBGAs/s1600/SortByColor_Revu_Customized.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="568" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0lR1nnS7NGg/XHbnbH2cRKI/AAAAAAAAB98/UWGBilrRrBIIJkrIH8u0ILIUIGVLMS2EgCLcBGAs/s400/SortByColor_Revu_Customized.png" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Expanded comment detail: Bluebeam Revu</td></tr>
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Here is the same information displayed in Acrobat. Since the Comments pane is not customizable, it still displays information which is irrelevant to me for this document: the date and the author name. And the text in the comment pop-ups are not displayed in a grid view, but rather, tucked underneath the author name, making it harder to find them. And since the icons are gray (And not the comment color), it's easy to scroll down an no longer be able to see which color the comment actually is.</div>
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According to Adobe, you can resize the Comments pane, but it's basically useless, since the information isn't listed in a grid view. So much wasted space!<br />
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Here is the comment pane in Revu, resized, with lots if useful information displayed. Great stuff! You can customize not only which columns to display, but their order and width.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Customized Comment Pane: Revu</td></tr>
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Here are the same comments viewed in Acrobat. Making the panel wider serves no benefit. The panel cannot be customized, and important information is left out. It does not display the subject, the status names, or who set the status.<br />
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One must hover over each status icon (which is the green thumbs up, green checkmark, red X, and yellow thumbs down. Only when you hover over each status icon does it say what the status is and who set the status.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comments Pane: Acrobat DC, hovering over a Status icon</td></tr>
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If that wasn't confusing enough, the "Completed By" status icon is a green checkmark, not to be confused with the regular checkmark (the blue one on the right).<br />
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Another noteworthy difference between the comments panes of Revu and Acrobat is how easier it is to see the selected comment in a list. In Acrobat, when you click on a comment, it expands, and takes up even <i>more</i> space, assuming that you want to type something in the comment box. The third comment down is selected, and the fourth one down is simply hovered over.</div>
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In Revu, it's WAY easier to see which comment is selected (because it's blue, the way it used to be in earlier versions of Acrobat). There is no change in comment appearance when it's hovered over.<br />
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It's worthwhile to note that Acrobat 9 has a very similar layout to Bluebeam Revu. Each comment icon is colored, and the information is somewhat listed in a grid.<br />
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While I prefer the layout of Acrobat 9 Comments pane when compared to later versions of Acrobat, it's still not as useful or user friendly as that of Revu.</div>
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PDF Comments in Acrobat can be exported as FDF or XFDF files, but not as CSV, or PDF Files.</div>
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It's clear that the difference between Bluebeam Revu and Acrobat is HUGE! Plus, Revu has the added benefit of sold as box software, meaning that there are no monthly subscriptions fees to pay. Pay once, use forever.</div>
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If you like'd to learn more about Bluebeam Revu check out these articles:</div>
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<li><a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/08/introducing-my-favorite-features-of.html">Introducing my Favorite Features of Bluebeam Revu PDF Editing and Markup Software</a></li>
<li><a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/10/things-i-love-about-bluebeam-revu-part-2.html">Things I Love About Bluebeam Revu: Part 2 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-to-email-pdf-using-bluebeam-revu.html">How to Email a PDF using Bluebeam Revu</a></li>
<li><a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-to-make-multiple-color-highlighting.html">How to Make a Multiple Color Highlighting Palette in Bluebeam Revu</a></li>
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Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-76760675615404892562019-02-11T11:24:00.000-08:002019-02-11T11:24:09.904-08:00Dropbox now Integrates with Online PDF Editing SoftwareAwhile back, I posted my thoughts about Dropbox commenting in a lengthy 2-part series.<br />
Part 1: <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/09/beware-of-dropbox-commenting.html">Beware of Dropbox Commenting</a><br />
Part 2: <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/09/more-reasons-to-hate-dropbox-commenting.html">More Reasons to Hate Dropbox Commenting</a><br />
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<i>"I think that in addition to the big blue Share and Download buttons in the top right, Dropbox should have a button labeled 'Open in Acrobat." </i></blockquote>
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Well, I still don't use Dropbox commenting features, but it appears that Dropbox is raising their game! Here's what I came across today: a big "Open with" button.</div>
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It appears that Dropbox is working with PDF editors to allow for online editing of PDFs stored in Dropbox. But guess who's missing from this list? That's right! Acrobat!</div>
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That's not surprising, seeing how Adobe Document Cloud is a direct competitor with Dropbox for online storage, editing, and commenting of PDF files. It's interesting to note that Adobe Sign <i>is</i> in the list, however. Stay tuned to see what develops next!</div>
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If Dropbox users didn't know about Acrobat's competitors, <i>they sure will now</i>, since they are in a beautiful dropdown list right inside what's probably the world's most popular file sharing service.</div>
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Will Dropbox allow for their comments to be embedded? Will Adobe allow for their technology to be integrated into the Dropbox ecosystem? Who knows...? </div>
Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-2560564565903318432018-10-16T14:23:00.001-07:002018-10-19T08:52:24.894-07:00Things I Love About Bluebeam Revu: Part 2There are so many things I love about Bluebeam Revu that it is impossible to fit them all in one article. So I am dedicating an entire series to it. <a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/08/introducing-my-favorite-features-of.html">Read Part 1 of the series here.</a><br />
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In Revu 2.0 for Mac, users have the ability to set their own keyboard shortcuts! I've seen a fair number of keyboard shortcuts interfaces in my years in publishing, and I have to say that this is the best one I have seen. It clearly divides the shortcuts into two categories: Tools and Commands. It also has the ability to let users search for a specific command. </div>
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Now, the terms may be slightly different than what I'm accustomed to, but that's no problem. For example, what I know as the "Hand" tool is actually called "Pan" here in Revu; and it's located under the Commands tab.<br />
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The list of shortcuts automatically filters itself so that only functions which contain the search term are listed. This is very similar to how the Illustrator keyboard shortcuts work.<br />
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I'm a <i>huge</i> fan of the UI in Revu. It puts a priority on efficiency and ease of use. I can tell that <i>the people who designed and built Revu actually use it. </i></div>
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The graphical icons became a bit more streamlined in Revu 2.0 for Mac, but I really like the fact that they still have colors associated with them. The menus were also slightly redesigned in Revu 2.0 for Mac (relocating some of the menu items), but the tools are still very easy to locate. </div>
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All of the markup tools are available in the menus.<br />
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Something noteworthy about the location of the text markup tools is that they not located with the drawing tools. If you are familiar with Acrobat, you're probably used to the Sticky Note and the Highlighter tool having top bidding, base on their prominence in the menu bar. However, with Revu, the most prominent markup tools are actually the drawing tools. It took me a bit to locate the text annotation tools, but I found them in a submenu: Tools > Markup > PDF Content. I think that's an important distinction because, to me, it clearly separates out the intention of those tools. They are to markup existing PDF text content.</div>
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I also really appreciate how all the drawing markup tools are also permanently located as icons in the far right side of the program. And the program has very Fast UI, no waiting for any panels to load, ever!<br />
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What's so great about how Revu handles this task is that it will take the PDF in exactly its current state, and attach it to an email. Somehow, it even magically works when your document has comments in it that haven't been saved. It is a single step! And if you don't like the default keyboard shortcut for Emailing a PDF, you can give it a customized keyboard shortcut.<br />
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If Bluebeam Revu is new to you , and you'd like to know why I have found that it's such a great piece fo software, <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/08/introducing-my-favorite-features-of.html">read this article.</a></div>
<br />Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-22604082087398912352018-10-05T12:10:00.000-07:002018-10-08T10:34:51.858-07:00How to Get the Old Version of Acrobat backEarlier this week, my Acrobat updated it self without any intervention on my part. What the heck?! If you are like me and are disappointed with the user interface changes, there is a way to get the 2018 version of Acrobat back.<br />
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<b>1. Uninstall CC2019</b><br />
I tried uninstalling through the Creative Cloud app and it didn't work, so I had to navigate to Acrobat CC in my applications folder and uninstall it there (double click on "Acrobat Uninstaller.")<br />
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<b>2. Download CC 2018</b><br />
I didn't see the 2018 download link on the Adobe website, but I was able to find it here:<br />
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<b>3. Install Acrobat CC 2018.</b><br />
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<b>4. Move CC2018 to the desktop and rename the folder (only if you want to also install CC 2019)</b><br />
This is important because if the 2018 version is still in your app folder, it may just update to 2019 and you'd have to start this process over again.<br />
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<b>5. Download and install CC 2019 (if you feel so inclined). Rename it's folder.</b><br />
<a href="https://cloud.acrobat.com/acrobat">https://cloud.acrobat.com/acrobat</a><br />
The latest two version of my Acrobat installations were a little buggy after this process. I don't know if that's because I was running both 2018 and 2019, or if they are <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/known-issues-acrobat-dc-reader.html">just <i>buggy</i></a>. Acrobat does crash pretty regularly for me (even prior to this update), and I've read complaints from other users that 2019 crashes frequently, so I suspect <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/known-issues-acrobat-dc-reader.html">the program is just buggy</a>. Just be forewarned.<br />
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<b>6. Turn off automatic updates for Pete's sake!</b><br />
If you don't want automatic updates, be sure to <i>turn off automatic updates</i> in Acrobat Preferences > Updater.<br />
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<i><a href="https://twitter.com/Acrobat/status/1048302416934981637">If you are using Adobe Reader, there is no option in the UI to turn off automatic updates</a>; which means that you are stuck with the new version. Sorry!</i><br />
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For little bit of insight as to why people might want to revert to the earlier version, visit this thread in the Adobe forums: <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2541730">https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2541730</a><br />
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You can also visit the Acrobat User Voice forum <a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac">here</a> and share your thoughts with Adobe.<br />
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<b><a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/known-issues-acrobat-dc-reader.html">Please check this page containing the known issues of Acrobat and Reader.</a></b>Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-8695346689834332402018-10-03T05:44:00.000-07:002018-10-03T05:46:54.502-07:00MoreInfo Improves Notes, Conditional Text, Tracked Changes and MoreMuch of my workflow involves obscure, little understood technical features of InDesign. Two of the features I use the most are Conditional Text and Notes. They were introduced many years ago and haven’t been improved since then. However, from time to time, independent developers decide to tackle some of the challenges faced by users of these obscure features. And for these developers I am extremely grateful!
In this post I’d like to introduce you to a new commercial plug-in called <a href="http://www.kerntiff.co.uk/products-4-indesign/moreinfo">MoreInfo</a> by Kerntiff Publishing Systems. MoreInfo combines the information from several features and displays it all in one handy spot. With MoreInfo, you can see, well, more info, on conditional text, notes, tracked changes, overset text, and index entries.
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<a href="https://indesignsecrets.com/moreinfo-plugin.php">Read the entire article at InDesign Secrets.</a><br />
<br />Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-62315496691775644332018-10-02T10:45:00.002-07:002018-10-02T10:47:50.155-07:00How to Make a Multiple Color Highlighting Palette in Bluebeam Revu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I've recently switched PDF commenting programs and I'm excited to be learning new and more efficient ways to work. Normally, when I need help with software, I visit the product forums, but for some reason, Bluebeam decided to remove their forums in the name of privacy. So I'm left to figure things out on my own.</div>
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Today I wanted to set up a palette of highlighters a a custom tool set. It took a little bit to figure it out, but it works great and makes highlighting in multiple colors so easy!<br />
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<b>1. Choose the Pen tool and draw a line.</b> Be sure to NOT hold down the shift key. For some reason, this doesn't work when the shift key is held down.<br />
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<b>2. Check the Highlight checkbox and change the line width to something thick.</b> I used 12.<br />
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<b>3. Right click on the line and select Add to Tool Chest.</b> I had already set up a custom Tool Ste called "Highlighers." That's why it's listed right below "My Tools."<br />
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<b>4. Go to the Tool Chest. Double click on the icon. That's it!</b><br />
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It took a little bit of fiddling to figure out how to get this to work. The thing with commenting in Bluebeam is that the tools are so adaptable, they'll behave pretty much however you want. By holding down shift when drawing your line, Revu will recognize it as a line and will force it's behavior in the Tool Chest accordingly.</div>
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2. Highlighter created from Pen<br />
3. Line (in Drawing mode, works as a stamp)<br />
4. Highlighter (Drawing mode, works as a stamp)<br />
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6. Pen (in drawing mode)</td></tr>
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For you my beloved blog readers: I am sharing <a href="http://documentgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Highlighters.btx_.zip">my set of Revu highlighters</a>. Enjoy!</div>
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If you aren't familiar with Revu and want to learn more about why this software is so great, <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/08/introducing-my-favorite-features-of.html">read this article.</a>Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-21909682554470486842018-08-31T11:27:00.001-07:002018-10-17T08:34:04.113-07:00Introducing my Favorite Features of Bluebeam Revu PDF Editing and Markup Software<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="text-align: left;">After using the same PDF editing software for many years, I recently discovered a new one, tailored specifically to meet the needs of people in the AEC fields (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction). I downloaded a 30 day free trial and purchased it right after my trial ended. </span><br />
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This new software is called <a href="https://www.bluebeam.com/solutions/revu">Bluebeam Revu</a>. It is cross platform, although the PC version is a bit more full-featured than the mac version, from what I have been told. But the mac version is still mind blowing. I can't even imagine what more can be added! The <a href="http://shop.bluebeam.com/SSP%20Applications/Bluebeam%20Software/BluebeamWebstore/Index.html?_ga=2.221574808.1432361588.1535571152-1356638636.1532014060#Store">PC version</a> is $349 and the <a href="http://shop.bluebeam.com/SSP%20Applications/Bluebeam%20Software/BluebeamWebstore/Index.html?_ga=2.221574808.1432361588.1535571152-1356638636.1532014060#RevuMac">Mac version</a> is $199, and it is worth every penny! Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks this software is amazing. According to Bluebeam, they have over one million users worldwide.</div>
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The work I do on my engineering-related PDFs involves mostly commenting and markup. With that in mind, I wanted to share with other folks some of my favorite markup features of Revu. Buckle your seatbelt! This is fantastic!</div>
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<i>Note: These are screenshots from Revu Mac version 1. A week after I wrote this article, version 2 was released! Soon I will update this article with a link to my experience using version.</i></div>
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<li>There are only one set of colors to choose from, and they closely resemble those in Acrobat 9.</li>
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<li><b>No Fill Option</b> for drawing markups. Can I get an AMEN on that one?!</li>
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<li><b>Toolchest</b> lets you save regularly used tools so you don't have to recreate the settings every time. You can also export your Tools to share with others. This is also a great way to store drawing markups and text boxes or things that you regularly need to use. It's like a spin on the Acrobat stamps pane or the Illustrator symbols panel. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ToolChest has a bunch of shapes already made and waiting for you!</td></tr>
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<li>Streamlined comment pop-up. Just a place to type your comment. Nothing more, nothing less.</li>
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<li>Drawing mode has a <b>highlighter option</b>. The beauty of this is that users can simply draw shapes around whatever they want to highlight! This affects the blending mode of the shapes and makes the shape tools act just like a highlighter. No more scribbling over large areas to attempt to highlight them.</li>
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<li><b>Module based UI</b> whereby I can put whichever modules wherever I choose in the left, right, and bottom panes. The UI is truly customizable!</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Module based UI</td></tr>
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<li>The comment/markup pane harkens back to Acrobat 9, where it was docked at the bottom and had no wasted space. This is a great use of space!</li>
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<li>The Markups pane is also fully customizable, so I can choose which columns I want displayed, as well as <b>in what order they display.</b></li>
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<li>Collapsible Categories in the Panes. Hide what you don't need!</li>
<li>XY coordinates for all comments, right in the Properties Pane</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collapsible categories! XY Coordinates! Oh my!</td></tr>
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I'm sure once I get more familiar with this software, my list of favorite features will grow. <a href="https://www.bluebeam.com/">Give it a try</a> and see how you like it!<br />
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<a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/10/things-i-love-about-bluebeam-revu-part-2.html"><b>Read the next article in this Bluebeam series here.</b></a><br />
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Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-74159384136978419252018-07-24T11:33:00.000-07:002018-07-25T07:45:44.907-07:00Caution, Warning, and Danger StylesIn my work as a technical publisher, my documents use quite a few "Cautions." I see requests on the Adobe forums about this from time to time, so I thought I would share my method for formatting these styles.<br />
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There are a number of ways to set these up, including tables, but I have found that tables can prove a bit cumbersome. I've decided to incorporate the use of InDesign Paragraph Shading and Paragraph border settings. <i>Disclaimer: These features were introduced in InDesign CC 2018. If you open this file in an earlier version of InDesign, it will not behave as expected.</i><br />
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Because I like my manuals to have plenty of white space, with nice wide margins, these styles are set up to have a large left indent. Here are some of the features of these styles:<br />
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<li>Both <b>Warning</b> and <b>Danger</b> styles are set up based on <b>Caution</b>, so if you need to make any adjustments for the spacing or font, you just have to do it in one place.</li>
<li>The CAUTION, WARNING, and DANGER text auto-populates (they utilize the bullet feature to accomplish this).</li>
<li>The little triangle dings are vector anchored objects, so they are easily editable. </li>
<li>The dings each have their own object style, so they sit in the correct spot based on which paragraph style uses them. "WARNING" is longer than "DANGER", so the triangle ding sits a little farther to the left.</li>
<li>The CAUTION TEXT is set up as a "Next style". </li>
<li>Caution Text displays borders even when over over threaded frames.</li>
<li>All styles auto fit the width of the frame.</li>
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<a href="http://documentgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Caution-Text.idml_.zip">Download the IDML file here.</a></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caution: Paragraph Shading</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caution: Paragraph Borders</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caution Text: Paragraph Borders</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Caution Text works over threaded frames and auto resizes to frame width</td></tr>
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Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-40022902022065563212018-07-05T10:29:00.000-07:002018-09-14T10:43:24.219-07:00Compare and Contrast: Page Thumbnails vs. Organize Pages ToolWith the release of Acrobat DC, a number of the longstanding functions of Acrobat were duplicated into new tools. What’s not readily apparent is that the a number of the old methods were left in place. I wrote about one of those (the Properties Bar) <a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-case-for-still-using-deprecated.html">here</a>. In today's article, I’ll be discussing another one of the deprecated tools: Page Thumbnails.<br />
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The Page Thumbnails are located in the left-hand pane of Acrobat DC. If your left-hand pane isn't open, simply click on the triangle in the left-hand side of the UI, and the pane will pop open. To view the various buttons, right click anywhere in the pane.<br />
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Once the Page Thumbnails are open, click on the Options button to reveal various functions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page Thumbnails Options</td></tr>
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Most of the functions that exist in the Page Thumbnails were duplicated in Acrobat DC's "Organize Pages" tool.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Organize Page" Tool</td></tr>
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The Organize Pages tool has the options listed across the top, in a graphical format, rather than in a singular dropdown list. Some of the functions have additional options, which are listed in either dropdowns or secondary dialog boxes. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Split Files: Output Options</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Split Files: Split By options<br />
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Compare and Contrast: Page Thumbnails vs. Organize Pages Tool</h4>
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<b>Page Thumbnails</b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
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<b>Organize Pages Tool</b></div>
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Drag and Drop page insertion</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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Delete pages</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Insert pages from blank file</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Non sequential page extraction</div>
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(Only through <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/03/easy-drag-and-drop-pdf-pages-extraction.html">drag and drop to the desktop</a>, not through the menus)</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Split Pages</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>--</b></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Bates Numbering</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">--</b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Set Page Boxes</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
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(Labeled in the menu as “Crop Pages”</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Page Labels (formerly "Page Numbering")</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Page Transitions</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Page Templates</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">--</b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Set Page Properties</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
Rotate Pages</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div>
View thumbnails while concurrently viewing full size document</div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">✓</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">--</b></div>
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<h4>
So why do I prefer using Page Thumbnails?</h4>
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Since most of the functions are duplicated in both tools, which tool I use depends upon which functions I use the most. For my work, much of what I do in Acrobat involves printing double sided documents. Page Thumbnails allow me to <i><b>view thumbnails while concurrently viewing the full size document</b></i>. That feature helps me to spot errors when printing. The one and only function that is missing from the Organize Pages Tool is the very reason that I prefer the Page Thumbnails tool.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Page Thumbnails<br />
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My work does not require the use of:<br />
<ul>
<li>Split Pages</li>
<li>Bates Numbering</li>
<li>Page Templates</li>
</ul>
Those are the three functions that <i>are</i> in the Organize Pages tool but not in the Page Thumbnails tool.<br />
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Which method do you prefer when viewing thumbnails?<br />
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<i>Edit: 9-14-18</i><br />
<i>I learned to day that the Organize Pages tool has another unique capability that does not exist in the Page Thumbnails tooL; You can drag in images and drop them into the Organize Pages pane and it will automatically convert the images to pages, and add them into the PDF. It do so in one batch, alphabetically.</i></div>
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Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-6460629587859830452018-06-29T14:03:00.001-07:002019-02-21T06:45:32.972-08:00How to Create a "Custom Tool" in Acrobat DCI spend a fair amount of time on the <a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac">Acrobat User Voice</a> pages, and wanted to deal with a hot-button issue for people. Many users would like to be able to customize their toolbars, and it is not readily apparent how to do so. They are much more customizable than it first appears.<br />
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I think the main reason for this is the nomenclature used. This video helps to explain the various types of tools within Acrobat, and compare them to the UI elements that are consistent among other Adobe applications (but totally inconsistent with Acrobat).<br />
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This is really part 2 of a topic I began in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpG3kDvmTJ4&t=30s">previous video</a> about how to customize toolbars in Acrobat DC.<br />
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<i>Edit: 9-13-18</i><br />
<i>If you'd like an easier way to customize the UI of your PDF editing software check out </i><a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/08/introducing-my-favorite-features-of.html" style="font-style: italic;">my article on Bluebeam Revu</a><i>. It's an amazing program designed specifically to meet the needs of users in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.</i></div>
Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-73603727819549710782018-06-21T13:20:00.000-07:002019-09-26T13:34:12.179-07:00How to Make a PDF Drawing markup with "No Fill"Somewhat regularly on the Acrobat forums, I see people asking for help making a shape with "No Fill" option when drawing shapes. Like <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/message/10256155#10256155">this post</a> for example.<br />
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In Acrobat DC, the old properties toolbar (which I discuss <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-case-for-still-using-deprecated.html">here</a>, <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-to-make-colored-and-more-attractive.html">here</a>, and <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-edit-font-properties-within-pdf.html">here</a>) was deprecated in favor of a new way of doing things.<br />
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The multi-tool Properties bar was broken apart into several tools, all of which combined do not accomplish the same things as the old faithful Properties Bar. The new tool include "Color Picker" and "Line Weights", as well as the Text Properties tool. I went into those at some length <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-case-for-still-using-deprecated.html">here</a>, but I realized today that I have never gone into much detail about the biggest glaring omission of the new tools. For me, the most important thing that was left out of the new DC tools is the ability to set a "no fill" option in your drawing markups. That's odd, especially considering that <b>the default setting of the drawing markup tools is "No fill.</b>" Notice how NONE of the giant color swatches are checked? That's because you cannot accomplish "No fill" using this new tool. <i>You must bring up the old Properties bar.</i><br />
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On this feature request <a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/33141349-draw-shapes-add-a-no-fill-option">Acrobat User Voice page</a>, this user proved my point that once the default no-fill is filled in, there doesn't seem to be a way to un-fill it.<br />
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It's quite frustrating for many users to not have the 'No Fill" option, as illustrated <a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/19545979-comment-ui-was-better-in-former-version">here</a>.<br />
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Not even clicking on the sprocket Options icon will give you anywhere to set the "No fill" option. That will, however, bring up the secondary Properties dialog box, which is useful if you need to access one of the other properties not available in the redesigned tools, namely "Line Style."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Line Style was also omitted from the redesigned tools in Acrobat DC</td></tr>
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But I digress. Let's take a look back at the fill options available in this dialog box. Let's compare these options with the options available in the Properties Bar. The Properties Dialog box uses the same color options available within the Mac OS. (Yours will likely be different if you are on a PC.) It makes sense that there wouldn't be a "No fill" option for setting color in the mac OS. Why would you want "No fill" when changing the color of the type in your email program, for example? (More on the topic of color choice dialog box <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2015/09/sort-comments-by-color-in-acrobat-dc.html">here</a>.)<br />
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Compare that with the old Acrobat-specific Properties dialog box which had a thoughtfully designed set of colors, complete with a No Fill option.<b> Of course</b> we want the option of no fill creating PDF markups. Even more so when creating drawing markups! Thankfully, the Acrobat designers from a decade or so ago considered that and built it for us.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Properties Bar: The only place to set a No Fill option</td></tr>
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Having a good method of highlighting and doing drawing markups has been a huge issue for me for years. And I am not unique in this. Entire industries (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) rely upon the ability to set a No Fill option on their drawing markups.<br />
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Let me be clear. <b>I love Acrobat! </b>I think it is the best PDF editor on the planet and I even did an entire <a href="https://www.lynda.com/Acrobat-tutorials/Adobe-Acrobat-DC-PDF-Commenting-AEC/597013-2.html">Lynda course</a> all about PDF commenting in Acrobat. But it is really missing the mark in some areas, and I'd like to help fix that. With a few changes and additions, Acrobat would be hands-down the best tool for doing drawing markups. But in my experience of working with engineers and builders across the country, only <i>one</i> person I've worked with uses Acrobat DC. Most of my clients are on old versions of Acrobat (one of them just recently got Acrobat 8 installed!), and some of them are starting to use competitor software. And that makes me sad.<br />
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Here's what I would like to see:<br />
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<li><a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/33141349-draw-shapes-add-a-no-fill-option">Draw Shapes - add a no fill option</a></li>
<li><a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/18813292-use-the-drawing-tools-to-highlight-objects">Use the Drawing Tools to highlight objects</a></li>
<li><a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/31472122-comments-and-annotations-need-marching-ants">Comments and Annotations need marching ants</a></li>
<li><a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/19435291-comment-list-takes-too-long-to-load">Comment list takes too long to load</a></li>
<li><a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/33405103-customize-comment-pane">Customize Comment Pane</a></li>
<li><a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/33056017-right-click-mark-as-checked">Right-click > Mark as Checked</a></li>
<li><a href="https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/32423152-add-option-to-make-comment-pane-open-automatically">Add option to make comment pane open automatically if there are comments</a></li>
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Will you take a few minutes to visit the UserVoice page and vote for each of these features?<br />
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<i>Edit: 9-13-918</i><br />
<i>I recently discovered a different software called BlueBeam Revu. They have a No Fill Option! Check out </i><a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/08/introducing-my-favorite-features-of.html" style="font-style: italic;">my article on Bluebeam Revu</a><i>. It's an amazing program designed specifically to meet the needs of users in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.</i><br />
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<i>Edit 9-26-19</i><br />
<i>I did a little more digging and it appears that there is another way to have "No Fill" on a comment. <a href="https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2019/09/acrobat-dc-how-to-have-drawing-markup.html">Read about that here.</a></i></div>
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Kelly Vaughn: Document Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283448765060591254noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124171699750486651.post-51346766978752907082018-03-29T06:30:00.001-07:002018-03-29T06:37:51.715-07:00How to Make Colored (and more attractive) Checkmarks for Acrobat Fill and SignI recently came across a forum post where someone was bemoaning the ugly and non-customizable black checkmark for Acrobat Fill and Sign.<br />
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It's been awhile since I've used that feature, so here is what I recall seeing the last time I used it. Here is a screenshot from Acrobat X!. The checkmark is available under Fill and Sign, much like it is in Acrobat DC.<br />
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When you select that Add checkmark tool, your cursor is loaded and you can draw out a checkmark anywhere you like, and as large as you like. It appears in the Comments pane as a stamp. It's a highly functional checkmark. Bold, easy and easy to see, and completely scalable Unfortunately, there is no way to make it a different color. At least not seemingly so.</div>
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What's interesting to note about this is that the checkmark appears as a stamp. That means that you can easily make your own custom stamp and make the checkmark in whatever color you like!<br />
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The Fill and Sign tools look the same on the surface, but they've totally reworked as to how they function. These fill and sign tools are now their own "thing", and will now longer show up in the comments pane. </div>
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When you add a checkmark, Acrobat now treats it as character (as opposed to a stamp), and as such, the size of it is changed by increasing the point size (which is accomplished by pressing the big A). There is no option to change the color. And when this thin checkmark is placed a on a form (which has typically been typeset in black), it can quickly become difficult to see).</div>
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To make checkmarks in other colors, you could create a custom stamp, import is it into Acrobat, create a new category for it... But there's a much faster solution. It's hiding under the Sticky note tool! Most people are only familiar with using the sticky note tool to make sticky notes. But did you know that it has many more appearance options than the standard yellow comment bubble?</div>
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First, open up the <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-case-for-still-using-deprecated.html">Properties Bar</a>. Wait, you've never heard of the Properties Bar? Well, you are in good company, my friend! The Properties bar hasn't been updated in about a decade, and it was left out of the dockable tools in Acrobat DC. Most people don't even know that it exists. It has some really cool functionality: such as giving you the ability to <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-edit-font-properties-within-pdf.html">edit font properties of sticky note text</a>, as well as more easily <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2011/01/acrobat-rectangle-tool-why-do-you.html">edit the fill and stroke colors of drawing markup comments</a> and <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgMWxYXwDfo/UH3qZetv7oI/AAAAAAAAA3g/Vb6k-gf33F8/s400/DifferentColoredStickyNote.png">adjust the opacity of comments</a>.</div>
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So if you need to change your sticky note icon, you will have to bring up the Properties Bar, which is available by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + E. Alternatively, you can bring up the Sticky Note Properties dialog box by clicking on the settings icon (the little round sprocket in the top corner of the paint bucket icon (also known as Color Picker). I like to use the Properties Bar because I find the Sticky Note Properties dialog box to be very slow to open.</div>
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It's important to note that sticky note icons are not scalable...at least not using the standard tools built into Acrobat. If you need to increase the size of your sticky note icons, you can do do <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2016/08/are-your-sticky-note-icons-too-small.html">using a script</a>.</div>
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Now if you take a look at the comments pane, you'll the the blue checkmark there, listed as a comment. That means that (unless your PDF has security added to it), basically anyone can come along and remove the checkmark. If that bothers you, all you have to do it run the <a href="http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2017/08/flattenizer-script-for-adobe-pdfs.html">Flattenizer Script</a> and your comments will be essentially burned into the document, and not easily deletable.</div>
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