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What is the best software for creating exam paper template?
LaTeX is meant exactly for stuff like this. LaTeX is a programming language of sorts, designed with the explicit purpose of typesetting documents... like, say, an essay template. It spits out nice, ...
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Illustrator: what is this black dotted box? How can it be disabled?
It's the print tiling indicator, basically showing you what and where your artwork will print with the print page size you currently have set.
You can turn it on and off from the view menu (View ...
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How do big design companies share art files
At my current workplace we use a version control system. To be exact, we use Git + Bitbucket with the LFS (Large File Storage) extension. We also use a graphical diff plugin that lets us see a quick ...
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How do big design companies share art files
"Many projects with many files all uploaded by humans on one server
will get messy, by definition."
Not necessarily. I freelanced for a while in a food packaging studio that had other studios ...
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SVG2TikZ or Inkscape2TikZ: convert from SVG graphics to TikZ/PGF code
According to the instructions, all you need to do is to copy the .inx and .py files from here:
https://github.com/kjellmf/svg2tikz/tree/master/svg2tikz/extensions
into your user extensions directory ...
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The pros and cons of using the appearance panel to create complex shapes and strokes in AI
The effect is live. That is it will recreate itself whenever you make a change to the underlying object. Some of the things can simply not be done in any meaningful way with other methods, such as ...
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What is the best software for creating exam paper template?
Photoshop is probably the last choice for this type of work.
InDesign could work better as it can natively create a 'facing pages' document, meaning left & right page templates and yes with the ...
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Adobe Fireworks - the best replacement?
I use Affinity Designer as a replacement for Fireworks. I also use Graphic by Picta which is pretty good too, but vector only.
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Inkscape adds handles to corner nodes after node deletion
Hold Ctrl and press the Del key to delete the node.
If you already have the handles hold Ctrl and click the round ends of the handles to remove them. That way you don't need to move the mouse to the ...
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Why doesn't the Shape Builder Tool let me select this specific shape?
There is probably a very small gap in there. Double click on the shape builder tool icon. This opens up options for the tool, enable gap detection and you should be good to go.
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What is an "Eber rule?" (Ruler to measure type)
Generally, manual type measurement is done via an E Scale. Sometimes referred to as a Type Scale.
These can be purchased at any art supply store.
They are customarily see through plastic. In fact ...
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Is there an automatic tool that can crawl a live site and generate both a visual sitemap and single-page screenshots?
If you're not afraid of coding you can do this with Python:
import gtk.gdk
w = gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window()
sz = w.get_size()
print "The size of the window is %d x %d" % sz
pb = gtk.gdk.Pixbuf(...
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How to begin designing PDF Business Reports
It is possible to learn how to do this. However, you should realize that graphic design is a design field you need to know quite much more than, PDF template with different styles to begin with.
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Adobe Fireworks - the best replacement?
Keep using FW CS5 if it works for you.
I can only assume you are seeking a replacement because Apple's latest OSs will not run CS5 applications.
No one EVER states you need the "latest and greatest"...
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How do I achieve this?
I want to have bulk experience of how the industry works.
OK
For that, I wish to make logos for tons of clients for free.
But that's pretty much the opposite of how the industry works. Clients ...
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Is there a tool to extract the primarily used colors in a picture?
You can do this directly in Photoshop!
Select an Image
Open "Save For Web"
Select "GIF Restrictive" from the dropdown labelled "Preset"
Select how many colours to include in the top right field ...
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How do big design companies share art files
I think that Digital Asset Management Software (DAM) is specifically used for exactly the situation you describe. Here is a nice write-up that explains what DAM is and how it is used.
I haven't ...
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Brush tool painting wrong colour in Photoshop
You have a levels adjustment layer which is lightening the color you're sampling. When you sample that color (i.e. with the Eyedropper), you're sampling the adjusted output, not the original un-...
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Polygonal lasso tool went mad
You are zoomed in to the pixel level of your image.
There's no way to cut a pixel in half, when zoomed out it looks smooth, in reality it's just "a staircase" selection.
What looks like this zoomed ...
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Is there a shortcut to change to a different tool while typing in Photoshop?
Hit the the Enter key to commit the text.
Note: ENTER not Return. They are not the same key.
If using Return because your keyboard has no Enter key.... you need to hold Command/Ctrl Then hit the ...
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Inkscape adds handles to corner nodes after node deletion
Hold Ctrl while deleting nodes to make Inkscape not try to preserve the shape of the curve. If you want to make this behavior the default, open the preferences for the node-tool (double-click its icon ...
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Photoshop Loupe Function?
I'm pretty sure that is a third party Mac app called Zoom it.
I thought I'd also point out that this is a built in thing in both Mac and Windows. Just a bit different looking.
Mac: Preferences > ...
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How to convert object fill in to fine lines?
Illustrator scribble effect does much what you are asking for
Just apply scribble onto the path fill. Then adjust the scribble settings to have 0 variation.
Then because this is a live effect, you ...
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