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OS X QuickLook Plugin for Photoshop Brush Files

Published on April 15, 2009 in resources. 0 Comments Tags: 10.5, Finder, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, plugin, Quick Look.

For all you Photoshop brush junkies out there, here’s a Mac OS X Quick Look plugin to preview Photoshop Brush Files (.abr) in the Finder.

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Mac OS X 10.5: Essential System Fonts

Published on April 12, 2009 in Apple/OS X. 0 Comments Tags: 10.4, 10.5, font, graphics software, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, software, troubleshooting.

Recently I was dealing with a problem in GarageBand, where the application would lock up when I was attempting the change the tempo of a song. For many months I struggled with this until it got to the point where I decided to do some in-depth troubleshooting. How does this relate to illustration you may ask? Turns out the problem was font related, and affected the performance of the software. Since this could affect any piece of software on your Mac, and therefore productivity, I thought it worth passing along as this could easily affect your graphics software as well.

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Illustrator File Previews: SneakPeek Pro QuickLook Plugin For Mac OS X

Published on May 27, 2008 in productivity. 0 Comments Tags: 10.5, Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, design, eps, Finder, font, FreeHand, illustrator, InDesign, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, PDF, plugin, shareware, software, vector.

SneakPeek Pro is a QuickLook plugin fro Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). In a nutshell, it extends file previews in both QuickLook and the Finder to previously unsupported file types such as Adobe Illustrator .ai files and EPS files.

If you aren’t familiar with QuickLook, it’s a pretty awesome new feature of 10.5 which allows you to quickly preview a good number of core file types — PDF, JPG, PSD, Word docs, movies, text files and more — without actually opening an application. One just needs to tap the spacebar with a file highlighted in the Finder, and a floating bezel-type window opens up with the full image, document or movie. Even works with multi-page documents as well. It’s just plain awesome.

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InDesign CS3 & Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”: The Good, The Bad & The Not-Too-Shabby

Published on May 6, 2008 in reviews. 0 Comments Tags: 10.5, Adobe, Apple, art, Creative Suite, CS3, illustrator, InDesign, Intel, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, MacPro, software.

A while back I was ranting about the myriad issues I had been reading about concerning Adobe InDesign CS3 and Apple’s (then) new operating system Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”. I am happy to report that upon upgrading to 10.5, and using InDesign CS3, everything has been working (for the most part) just great.

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Adobe InDesign CS3 5.02 Update Released – 10.5 Fixes On Apple’s Shoulders

Published on January 22, 2008 in software. 0 Comments Tags: 10.5, Adobe, art, Creative Suite, CS3, graphic design, InDesign, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, software.

Adobe just released anÂ incremental update to InDesign CS3 (5.02), and it’s so new it seems to not be in the auto-update as of yet. Per the Read Me file:

Â This update fixes known issues with Anchored Objects, Character Alignment, Step and Repeat,Â Indexing and Table of Contents, Text and Fonts, Dictionaries, Color, Scripting, Graphics Import/Export, InDesign Interchange files (INX), XML, Library files, and Printing, as well as otherÂ miscellaneous issues.Â

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