PDF File: Remove Password Protection
Nov27

PDF File: Remove Password Protection

KB ID 0001719 Problem My daughter had a file that was protected by a password, (it had sensitive personal information in it). She wanted to send this file to someone, but wanted to remove the password protection first. I thought this would be easy, open it in Acrobat Reader, find the bit that says ‘password protect’ and untick it right? Well to enable that ‘feature’ (called the “protect feature”),...

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Stop Edge Hijacking PDF Files
Jan26

Stop Edge Hijacking PDF Files

KB ID 0001395 Problem This question appeared in my inbox today, ‘Edge’ has a nasty habit of assigning itself the default PDF reader, particularly after a round of updates! Solution First I went and had a look at my old Experts Exchange Buddy Ramesh’s site (www.winhelponline.com) who had done the heavy lifting and worked out the registry keys; Note: I’m only concerned with .pdf files, if you want to block .htm...

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Dreamweaver – ‘You Need To Install The Legacy Java SE 6 Runtime’
Jun28

Dreamweaver – ‘You Need To Install The Legacy Java SE 6 Runtime’

KB ID 0001213  Problem I used to use Dreamweaver all the time, it was used to design and build the site and handle all the uploads etc. Since I moved to WordPress I don’t use is as much. But it’s still a great code editor so I still fire it up on occasion. At least I did until this started happening; To open “dreamweaver” you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime. Click “More info…” to...

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Photoshop All the Toolbars Have Disappeared?
Nov17

Photoshop All the Toolbars Have Disappeared?

KB ID 0000192 Problem When using Photoshop you have no toolbars or palettes etc. No Toolbars – not good Solution Annoyingly simple! – Press TAB As if by magic! Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop  

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Photoshop – Drawing box’s
Nov17

Photoshop – Drawing box’s

KB ID 0000203 Problem For the site I do a lot of screen shots / screen dumps for illustration purposes its good to be able to highlight thinks by being able to draw a box around them. Usually I do this with mspaint, but I finally got tired of doing half the tasks in mspaint and the rest in Photoshop, so I worked out how to do it properly. Solution 1. Assuming you have you graphic already open, create a new Layer. 2. Click the...

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Photoshop – Drawing Arrows
Nov17

Photoshop – Drawing Arrows

KB ID 0000204 Problem I wrote a walkthough on drawing box’s earlier, the second thing I tend to do, is put arrows on my diagrams to point things out. Solution 1. OK, so I’ve got my graphic, and I know something about it thats not obvious at first glance. 2. So I’ll open it with Photoshop and put an arrow on it. Firstly Select the “Line tool”. 3. On the toolbar at the top select the drop down arrow next to...

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