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PDF File: Remove Password Protection

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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”), you have to pay Adobe?

Tech Rant: I really don’t like Adobe, I don’t like their pay for things monthly, nothing works without you paying for it, we can do whatever we like and you chumps will pay for it attitude. I’ve stopped using Photoshop because now I can only ‘rent it’. Adobe Acrobat needs to update at least once every two days, (which it has since 1985 for some unfathomable reason!) 

Solution

Microsoft is our saviour! (There’s a sentence I don’t use that often!) Open the offending file in Microsoft Edge browser. (I’m using a mac, but the process is identical on a Windows machine, (I know because I did it that way first!)

Enter the password.

Print > Change the Printer > Save as PDF > OK > This will save the current file as a PDF file and it wont be password protected!

WARNING: Don’t message me below and ask ‘what if I dont know the password?‘ I’m not here to teach you how to hack into password protected PDF files. Learn to use Google properly.

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Chrome (Linux) Installing x64 bit Flash Plugin

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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 process.

1. Launch a terminal Session (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), issue the following command followed by your password.

[box]sudo apt-get install chromium-browser flashplugin-installer[/box]

2. When prompted enter “Y” for yes.

3. Time to put the kettle on.

4. When its finished, open up Chrome and go here to test it.

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Also see Ubuntu – Installing Java

Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop

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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, but has an ‘s’ on the end.

So If I can batch resize and batch rename these files I will save myself a LOT of time.

Solution

In Photoshop ,you can record an ‘action” of you resizing an image then ‘Batch process’ that action on a lot of images, but I find that ‘clunky’ and sometimes it simply will not do what I want it to do! So I use Adobe Bridge instead.

Batch Resize Images in Photoshop

1. Open Photoshop and select File > Browse in Bridge.

2. Browse to the location/folder containing your images and select them > Tools > Image Processor.

3. Select a folder to save the altered images to (Note: Even if you select the same location it creates a folder in that location and puts the changed images in that new folder – don’t panic). set the width to your required size, (the height will resize on an image-per-image basis). To start press ‘Run’.

Batch Resize and Rename Images in Photoshop

1. Now I want to create my ‘Thumbnails”, as before open the Image Processor.

2. This time I want my images 550 px wide (Note: For a thumbnail that’s pretty big! But that’s what I use on this site). ‘Run” with those settings.

3. Now MAKE SURE you have your modified images selected, and select Tools > Batch Rename.

4. The first time you see this screen it’s not very intuitive. You can delete and add options as required, keep changing them until the preview shows what you want, and select ‘Rename’.

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Dreamweaver CS6 – Backup and Restore Site Settings

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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 export the site login details and passwords > OK.

3. Select where you want to save the settings.

4. From the Same Menu on the TARGET Machine > Import Site.

5. Browse to the .ste file you saved earlier > Open.

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Photoshop CS6 Flickers and Images Go Black When Cropping

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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 step should fix the problem for you, if not carry out the second step.

Step 1

File > Preferences > Performance > Advanced Settings > Change the Drawing mode to ‘Basic’ > OK > OK. Now test again, if the problem is resolved skip the next step.

Step 2

File > Preferences > Performance > Untick ‘Use Graphics Processor’ > OK.

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Dreamweaver CS6 – Migrate or Edit the Private Dictionary

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Problem

If you want to migrate your dictionary to a new machine, or you have mistakenly added a word to the dictionary and need to delete that word, then you need to locate and edit the private dictionary.

With older versions of Dreamweaver the private/personal dictionary was a file with a .tlx extension, and it was in a completely different location! I spent a LONG TIME searching the net for the correct location for CS6. In the end I had to add a nonsense word into the “Add to Personal” dictionary, then use Agent Ransack to search the entire drive for the file that contained that word!

Solution

1. First fire up Dreamweaver and see what language you have the dictionary set to (this will matter in a minute). Edit > Preferences > General > Spelling Dictionary > Take note of what it is set to.

2. Notice mine is set to UK (that’s en_GB, if you are American yours will be en_US etc.). To locate your personal dictionary navigate to;

[box] C:UsersUsernameAppDataLocalLowAdobeLinguisticsUserDictionariesAdobe Custom Dictionaryen_GBadded.txt [/box]

Note: You will notice the language of the parent dictionary dictates the path to the custom dictionary.

3. You can now open the file with your favourite text editor and remove any incorrect entries, or migrate it to a new machine.

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