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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Chrome (Linux) Installing x64 bit Flash Plugin
Nov17

Chrome (Linux) Installing x64 bit Flash Plugin

KB ID 0000385  Problem Did you know you can install Java and Flash with the Ubuntu Restricted extras pack? click here At the time of writing, Adobe have pulled the previous beta of x64 bit flash for Chrome, which is annoying because I am running it on my x64 Ubuntu 10.10 box.   Solution To be honest more of a workaround than a solution, but you can get chrome to install the x32 bit version and it will run it as a separate...

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Batch Resizing  and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
Nov17

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,...

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Dreamweaver CS6 – Backup and Restore Site Settings
Nov17

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...

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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...

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