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graphics designers prefer Macs over PCs for accomplishing their tasks. I was wondering, why is this?
I think it's dangerous to make this generalization, but it seems to ring true to a lot of people. I think there are a lot of nuances and history behind this but it all sort of boils down to the obvious. Graphic designers appreciate good design.
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There's also the aesthetic side to it. I am and have always been a PC user. However, I still have to admit that OS X and Mac hardware have always been better designed from an aesthetic standpoint than Windows/PC.
Designers naturally gravitate towards beautiful designs. And since we all draw inspiration from our environment and absorb influences from the ...
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It's got nothing to do with Windows vs. Mac - walk into any office and look at the different monitors on folks' desks. Assuming you're using a standard color scheme (sRGB, etc.) the information will go out to each of those monitors the same way (i.e., white = "ffffff" which is hexidecimal for "turn the red, green, and blue values for that pixel all the way ...
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I do not think that nowadays it is particularly true any more about Mac better than PC for graphic design. You do not have to have a Mac to be a Graphic Designer. PC & MAC have same potential in software and hardware. I love and hate both, and use both for various things.
In past where 2 factors to make you choose the mac:
There were software
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To add in words, Since Export Layers to Files is run by some script all I had to do was find that script, then find the function which saves the layers to files, find which part of the function does the numbering prefix & comment it out.
So here are the steps -
on Mac running Lion, goto Applications > Adobe Photoshop CS5 > Presets > Scripts ...
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It sounds like the issue is (yet again) monitor calibration. If you're using the same color profile (sRGB, etc.) the values will be the same regardless of the OS used.
You and your designer should agree on a color profile (there are many, many profiles and they're mostly OS independent) simply for the sake of consistency. Since color is part of design I'd ...
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Given you already have Photoshop, it sounds like you need a machine of similar spec to your graphics team.
I'm not sure that anything which allows you to open a complex, layered Photoshop file and fully supports its layer effects compositing would be significantly more lightweight - it's not simply turning a stack of raster images with alpha transparency on ...
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If your needs are that simple, you can probably do what you need using the free, web-based and popular http://pixlr.com/ which supports PSD files.
It has a simpler interface and gentler learning curve for people familiar with photoshop than the obvious other free alternative GIMP (which you could always download any time you needed any more features or if ...
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Probably a Mac user would have a better opinion, but from the 'outside' its seems like Macs more consistently deliver high quality experience. The hardware is damn attractive and the OS (from limited experience) is more consistent at giving you information you need and hiding information you don't (though Windows 7 was a huge improvement Microsoft). Hardware ...
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When saving images as .jpeg you always lose information. The dialog basically asks you how much information you would like to lose in favor of smaller size on disk (1 = most loss, 100 = least loss). There is no way to tell what you originally selected and the only use would be to have a history of your workflow because this loss is irrecoverably applied to ...
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There's also a paid one here. It says it's available for Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure, Keynote and PowerPoint, and the Illlustrator single license is apparently something like $24.
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XML is text. Any plain text editor will work. You simply don't want a rich text editor such as word.
You can use Text Edit, the default text application on the Mac OS. But you must go into its preferences and tell it to ignore RTF commands on open and save.
I prefer BBEdit from barebones.com. But that's merely my preference.
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Unfortunately, I do not have access to CS3, I use CS5. However, I noticed that when you export, in the dialog box where you choose the file name, there's also this option:
Make sure it's unchecked as shown, this will export ONLY the content, not the artboard.
EDIT
Alternatively you can fit your artboard to your illustration:
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On Mac OS X, Illustrator maintains these types of files in a couple different locations:
~/Users/philipr/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS4/en_US/Swatches/
~/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4/Presets.localized/en_US/Swatches/
There are all sorts of items you have pre-loaded into Adobe apps from within those folders.
I don't work in ...
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As you can read in the iOS Human Interface Guidelines, you'll actually need quite a number of icons for the different devices/purposes. The iPad requires a different icon size, while the retina display introduced with the iPhone 4 doubles the resolution.
In your case you should look at the Application icon and/or the Web clip icon (which are luckily the ...
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As mentioned in my comment, I think Photoshop Elements 8 is a good investment for any cash-strapped company that needs to edit/view PSD files and work with designers who use Photoshop. However, Gimp and Paint.NET also support PSD files.
I'm not sure the extent to which they support them, but I think Gimp's support could be better than Pixelmator since Gimp ...
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I can tell you that the Optima Regular that came with my Mac is definitely the Roman weight. I'm using OS X 10.8, AKA Mountain Lion. It's possible, but rather unlikely, that older versions of OS X came with a different set of weights.
Some additional background, if you're curious:
Mapping names to weights will vary a bit depending on the history & type ...
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You need to be at 500% zoom or higher and then hold Shift+Mouse Button to have your guides snap to the pixel grid.
Otherwise, by default it'll snap to:
every 2 pixels at greater than 100% zoom
every 5 pixels at 100% zoom
every 10 pixels at less than 100% zoom
However, if you set your grid to every pixel, then it should snap to the pixel at 100% zoom or ...
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Error 1 This particular message is not significant. It just means that the font file you have is not the same version as your colleague's, and there's no harm in telling PS to update the layers. A "Missing Font" error is more important; it means he used a font you don't have. That would be handled by having the designer either rasterize or outline (convert ...
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This isn't a Windows vs. Mac issue, especially if your designer is on the latest OS X platform. The last upgrades have brought OS X in line with the international graphics display standards, so Win and Mac both use the same gamma setting.
I would suggest that in the Wonderful World of Web Wizardry this color difference is not a bad thing. As lawndartcatcher ...
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After a visit to the Adobe forums and trawling around there for a while, I saw someone with the opposite problem who solved it by logging out. It was worth a shot, it's not something I do often.
This fixed it.
Thank you to everyone who offered me suggestions, I do appreciate the support.
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The afm file is probably Adobe Font Metrics file, the other file is probably a pfb file. The bulk of the font data is in the pfb file and the afm file is basically metrics, kerning, random descriptive info. I expect this is an "Adobe Type 1" format typeface, or perhaps something older. My memory is fuzzy.
As far as "converting it", you need to specify why ...
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The only real reasons to stick to a Mac Pro:
More than two monitors needed
More than 32GB of RAM needed
More than 1 internal hard drive needed
PCIx expansion cards needed
If you aren't using any of the above items, then a mini or iMac would work just fine. The Minis and iMac have plenty of processing power for most design work.
The Minis can use up to ...
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Select the paths as you normally would using Shift-click with the black arrow path tool, then Ctl-C to copy and Ctl-V to paste. There's no need to use any other modifier keys.
If you want to copy multiple paths within the shape layer by Alt-dragging, press Alt, start to drag, then add Shift to constrain the movement.
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FontAgent Pro from insidersoftware.com is an excellent font management application which will do all you ask. There are others - Suitcase, FontExplorer, etc. But I simply prefer FontAgent Pro.
You can use the Apple-installed FontBook as well, although it's a tad limited.
And on the Mac, simply highlighting a font file in the Finder and hitting the Space ...
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LittleSnapper
LittleSnapper is awesome. I'm 90% sure it works with Retina display Macs, but I don't have any way to confirm.
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/
Paparazzi
Paparazzi is pretty old, but free. So you could give that a shot first. I don't know how well it'll handle Retina screenshots though.
http://derailer.org/paparazzi/
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The Font Book application can't paste glyphs into other applications.
You would need to use the Character Viewer of OS X. This tool is made to view all Unicode-defined characters in their font-specific renderings. You can then paste the glyph you want into any text input/editing application by double-clicking on the glyph.
Character Viewer is launched via ...
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Optima Regular and Optima Roman are actually synonyms.
Here is the link to MyFonts to show what you see when you click on Optima Regular buying options - a package named "Optima Roman" that contains a single font - Optima (i.e. Regular, which is usually omitted).
I do not know exactly why Linotype and Adobe chose to use both style names simultaneously - ...
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I can confirm that LittleSnapper works on rMBP. However, the screenshots are double resolution. I'm not sure what you mean by "reproducible size" but if you send the screenshots to someone one a standard display, they will say "these are way too big".
I'm still trying to find out a good way to take low resolution screenshots for sharing with people who ...
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I see your problem. I don't know of any way to adjust this within Photoshop, but you do have a couple of alternatives.
First, you can batch rename all your files using Adobe Bridge. (Tools >> Batch rename)
As you can see, this window provides many more options for renaming your files and controlling prefixes and suffixes. The downside is, if you need the ...
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