Last Wednesday morning, a Seattle construction crew cut through a water main one block from the Creativetechs office. About the same time our office phone lines and DSL went dead, killing our main Internet access.
Yet, throughout this day’s drama, our office email kept flowing and we had full access to the Internet. Why? Because we had taken our own advice and already had a second, inexpensive backup Internet connection in place. Read that tip here: Keep your Internet up using two providers.
Does your creative team rely on Internet to keep the business running? If any interruption in email causes major headaches, you might consider adding a backup Internet connection for your studio.
There are routers available that support dual Internet connections. For example, your office might have a primary high-speed connection, with a secondary inexpensive connection as backup.
A common example would be to install both Cable and DSL Internet connections simultaneously — making it less likely that both connections would be down at the same time.
Over the last several years Creativetechs has encouraged many creative teams to replace their team’s older Postscript font libraries with newer OpenType font collections.
In the past, old Postscript fonts couldn’t support a large number of characters. To get around that limitation, special “expert” font sets were created to provide designers with additional typographic features such as oldstyle figures, true small capitals, fractions, special ligatures, and others.
So, what if you’ve designed larger documents (e.g. annual reports) using special characters from the old “Adobe Caslon Expert” collection? When you convert over to the new OpenType “Adobe Caslon Pro”, certain typographic flourishes disappear.
This tip demonstrates how you can use InDesign’s advanced find-and-replace feature to help make your font migration an easier one.
Some early adopters are experiencing problems installing their new copy of Adobe CS3. If you tested the public beta version of Photoshop CS3 on your computer you will see the following cryptic error when you try to install the full version:
“Adobe Photoshop CS3 cannot be installed because it conflicts with: Adobe Photoshop CS3”
If you’ve seen this error, you must first remove the beta version of Photoshop CS3. That takes more than simply trashing the application folder.
If you manage a creative team with even a few designers, we strongly recommend that you take advantage of Adobe’s Transactional Licensing Program (TLP) when you purchase Adobe software and upgrades.
Link: Adobe volume licensing made easy.
You’ll probably save money. Far more importantly you’ll prevent a future of serial-number headaches.
