Adobe Creative Suite

I have always wanted to use the numeric keypad in ADOBE InDesign, like you can in ADOBE Illustrator and ADOBE Photoshop and many other programs including ADOBE programs.

Ctrl+1 = Actual size

Ctrl+0 = Fit in window

Doesn't work in InDesign, never has. Even Quark can do that. What's the matter with Adobe? They have been developing this for almost 10 years.

Only thing that works using the numeric keypad is:

Ctrl+ (+) = bigger size

Ctrl+ (–) = smaller size

I thought the idea was to make all function keys and pallets the same across what they laughingly call "Creative Suite"

They should ditch a few of the useless elements like "Bridge" and concentrate on making the 3 main programs a seamless suite.

Blog, over and out.

Adobe CS5 announced

Adobe CS5 is out in May. £746.00 just to upgrade the standard version. Our "annual rental fee" has gone up from £450 last year to £750 this year. "Design Premium" is £650 so they are trying to hook me into moving up to the more expensive version by making the Premium upgrade cheaper than the Standard upgrade. Do they learn this sneaky, crafty accounting/marketing process from the Drug Barons then?

One thing that has always hacked me off is that they are NOT all integrated as they claim.

All Adobe software allows you to scale the page Ctrl plus +/- up or down, or Ctrl+1 = actual size.

Except InDesign! Why does InDesign not let you use the numeric keypad?

Photoshop does it, Illustrator has done it for 20 years and so has QuarkXPress.

Bet they still havn't fixed it. Bet they just added more useless bells and whistles.

Fast as you get to learn your way around the software and start to produce efficient, and quick production...

...they shift everything around, hide things and sell it to you again for £750 quid. Then production slows while you get to grips with where they have hidden tools or completely re-named old items to make them appear new.

And woe betide you if you don't pay up. You won't get support, and you won't be able to open any newer files.

Hooked. Like a heroin addict.

We should be protected from this sort of extortion. No other industry does it. Maybe there should be a new quango set up called "OffSoft" to regulate?

Imagine buying a car and finding after 12 months it will no longer run on petrol and you have to pay £750 for a conversion.

There would be public outcry! Be on the Sky "Breaking News" banner. Then when the car is 2 years old they make the ignition key redundant and charge you another £750 for a new digital key option.

Why do we stand for this? Speak up people!

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5,000 years ago in Ireland

There's a place in Ireland called "Newgrange". A tomb complex in County Meath, built around 3100BC around the time of the Egyptian empire! It's an impressive construction and it's open to the public. And it's over 5,000 years old, making it older than Stonehenge and older than the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Fooo Kmee that's ancient!

Saint Brendan (or St Brandan) (484–577)

Irish abbot and traveller. Born in Tralee, now in County Kerry, he is traditionally regarded as the founder of the monastery of Clonfert in County Galway (561), as well as other monasteries in Ireland and Scotland. The 8th-century Irish epic Voyage of St Brendan recounts his legendary journey across the Atlantic to a ‘land of saints’. His feast day is 16 May. St Brendan is believed to have studied under the abbess St Ita in Limerick and abbot St Jarlath in Tuam. His first appointment as abbot was at Ardfert.

The location of the land to which St Brendan is supposed to have voyaged is unclear. Some authorities place it far to the north (the Hebrides, the Northern Isles, or even Iceland), while others have speculated that it may have been the Canary Islands. Some ancient maps show ‘St Brendan's country’ lying west of the Cape Verde Islands.

I have read several translated accounts of his journeys, suffering great hardships and surviving on faith, fishing, even eating the seagulls that went after his fish! These boats carried up to 60 people at a time. Lots of material on the internet if you are interested. I read that he got as far as Newfoundland and discovered ancient Nordic burial sites which possibly pre date Christ.

See - The ancients were just as intelligent and with fewer resources at their hands. Proves that we are not as smart as we think we are with our technology!

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