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”),...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
KB ID 0000597 Problem I have to do this quite a lot, I take a lot of screen-shots for the site, and have to resize them down, (usually to 550 pixels) so that, they fit with the layout. In addition I scale the larger screenshots down to 900 pixels for the images I Hyperlink to. This means I spend a long time in Photoshop messing about with image sizes. The smaller of the two images you see on the site nearly always has the same name,...
Adobe Photoshop CS6 – Change the Dark ‘Theme’
KB ID 0000648 Problem Either I’m half blind or the default colours in Photoshop CS6 are a bit to dark for me to work with. Solution It’s easy to fix, there are four settings. Windows: Press SHIFT+F2 to ‘lighten’, and SHIFT+F1 to ‘darken’. MAC: Press SHIFT+FUNCTION+F2 to ‘lighten’, and SHIFT_FUNCTION+F1 to ‘darken’. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links...
Dreamweaver CS6 – Backup and Restore Site Settings
KB ID 0000672 Problem If you are like me and struggle to remember settings, passwords etc. Then being able to back up all your website settings in Dreamweaver so you can restore them back again, (after a rebuild on a new PC) can save you some heartache. Solution 1. On the SOURCE machine, Launch Dreamweaver > Site > Manage Sites > Select the site in question > Select the ‘Export Site’ Icon. 2. Choose whether to...
Photoshop CS6 Flickers and Images Go Black When Cropping
KB ID 0000747 Problem I am in the process of moving all my stuff to a new laptop, I installed CS6 and was doing some work when every time I used the cropping tool my images simply went black. Also, for no reason images I was working on would flicker black as well? Solution Turns out it’s just a problem with the graphics drivers on this particular machine and the way Photoshop interacts with the graphics processor. The first...