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Anuj Kaithwas

06:02

hi
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96798895/Untitled-2.pdf

I made this pdf in indesign, I don't know if it's an issue or not but when I zoom in to the file, say to any text or the logo, it stutters and then appears clearly
why is this happening?

Wrzlprmft

06:44

@joojaa Took a look at the question. Lhf’s answer sounds exactly what my intuitive approach to the problem was after reading the question.

Anuj Kaithwas

06:57

@Wrzlprmft, Hi

Wrzlprmft

Hi

Anuj Kaithwas

could you please help me out?

Wrzlprmft

Perhaps

marcusdoesstuff

11:27

quick indes q...

if i want to align some text left and some right, on the same line, i would align right and insert a tab in between.

indes then pushes both bits of text to the edges of the text box correctly.

however... if there isn't room for a tab then it breaks onto a new line.

there's still enough space and i can do it manually... i just wondered if i'm missing a trick.

joojaa

12:04

@marcusdoesstuff perhaps

Ryan

12:36

@marcusdoesstuff why can't you adjust the tab?

I mean if there's not enough space for some sort of tab then how will you see the different in the text anyways? It would just look like one continuing line if there's no space between it anyways

marcusdoesstuff

13:18

a couple spaces does the job... i wondered if there was a white space character or something.

i rarely find myself using tabs for indents etc so adjusting the tab width is a decent idea.

it doesn't look like one line of text if it's a symbol or a number in a different font or size so that's fine.

in this case i have symbols in the corner of cells in a table.

Ryan

off top of my head Ctrl+Alt+T I believe is the shortcut to adjust the tab

and yes there are all sorts of white space character if you go to... uh... Insert Character Spaces or something like that

if you can't find it let me know and I'll open InDesign to get the exact menu spot for you

marcusdoesstuff

i essentially want one that pushes text out on both sides to the margins.

ctrl+shift+t brings up the tab window... a confusing window but i seem to have made it work.

i didn't see a white space character for this... though i thought this was flush space

Ryan

13:53

morning all

@JanBenes hi, haven't seen you in here before. Greetings

JohnB

hello

Ryan

hey John, you gonna participate in the exercise?

JohnB

I'm gonna try

Ryan

hopefully its a decent time for a good turnout. Hard getting one time that works across Australia, America, and Europe

at least we don't have anyone I know of in Asia or we'd really be in trouble

hi @go-me welcome to the chat. Hope you came in for the design exercise

Jan Benes

14:14

@Ryan Hi, thanks. Just here to take a look, probably not going to stick around. Was curious about the competition

Ryan

sounds good. Its only first day so not sure how many will come out. Hopefully it grows to at least a few regulars each week

@JanBenes just curious how'd you hear about it? Graphic Design Exchange? I also mentioned it in Photography and UX. Not sure if it showed up anywhere else though. First time we've tried doing an actual Community Event

go-me

@Ryan I clicked on the link by accident, obviously :/ If there's a way I can use Mr T picture, I might participate

Jan Benes

@Ryan Saw it in the bottom right corner of the website ("suggested post"?), think it had the GD graphic next to it

Ryan

@go-me well @Darth_Vader plans to try and incorporate cat gifs so pretty sure if you want to find a way to incorporate Mr T into your design you can come up with something lol

go-me

14:30

heehee well, the "the" will be fix at the next proof.. you know how it is.

2

hahaha ha. Ok I'll take a break. I'll find some Chris Hansen images for the next batch

Ryan

on the hour

go-me

14:53

lol!

AndrewH

I think this question is spam

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Q: How to cdr repair corrupted image?

Please help! I need to restore the file till Wednesday! My work depends on it. I'm using CorelDraw X3. Through it I can't correctly open my file, I see unknown image instead my graphic.

corel-draw

Ryan

mornin @AndrewH how's the job?

I migrated it already

AndrewH

maybe, there are exact word matches

on google from past years

Ryan

(though they'll probably either downvote or close it)

go-me

I guess he can already look for another job :/

JohnB

14:55

yeah we had a bunch of questions similar to those, fake questions so people could advertise their service

go-me

Tell him if he sees a big black dude with a mohawk, it's totally normal

Ryan

oh ya I see, exact same wording all over other exchanges and reddit and stuff

ah well, its superusers to deal with now

AndrewH

@ryan the job is great! I really like my new work. However I get work last minute a lot of the times (like today). Where I have to print for a show that is shipping out tomorrow...

Ryan

hah sounds about right. Last year we got a column wrap at a show and I had to resort to contacting the printer directly because what the show organizer told me made zero sense. As a result our column wrap was the only one that was actually on a column

and yes it was last minute because of it

AndrewH

Our sales people are like "yea we don't need anything to print" then the show manager comes to me saying that we have to reprint everything cause the graphics got damaged...

Ryan

14:58

@AndrewH yep thats definitely a spammer, posted same exact thing on 3 exchanges. Destroyed!

AndrewH

Thats a weird thing to spam... It doesn't even include a link.

go-me

Maybe it's not spam, maybe it's a poor desperate guy who will learn next year to not count on SE for last minute answer

Ryan

nah its some kind of spam - google.com/…

can find the exact wording from years ago

Uh time to start. Did anyone get any notification in the news feed thing? Saw it 30 minutes ago but thought it would show again now

@MattRockwell greetings

go-me

hahaha well that's funny

JohnB

@AndrewH they wait a while then post an answer to their pay service. See this example

@Ryan I don't think you get pinged if you have the room open

Ryan

15:03

@BESW @marcusdoesstuff @GiantCowFilms @JohanLarsson any of you participating?

Everyone ready that is?

go-me

JohnB

welcome @Earthliŋ

Ryan

hi @Earthliŋ come for the design exercise?

GiantCowFilms

@Ryan In what?

Earthliŋ

@JohnB Thank you! First time here...

go-me

15:05

If no one participate I'll come spam you every day. With the same image. And this color #00fff6

Ryan

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Q: Thursday Weekly Design Challenge

On Thursdays at 15 UTC we're going to be hosting a weekly design challenge. Come in to Ink Spot A random topic will be provided for people to design on. I'll host and pick topics the first few weeks but then open it up to anyone else who wants to throw out a topic. It could be a logo, a new way...

discussion featured

Earthliŋ

@Ryan Eh... What's going on?

Ryan

you came just in time for our first ever weekly design challenge. Just trying to find out if everyone that wants to participate is here and ready before starting

GiantCowFilms

Not this time but I will mark it off

Matt Rockwell

ready

JohnB

15:06

hey Matt

Matt Rockwell

Hey!

Ryan

Alright so since this is first time a little more about how it works. This will I'll give a topic. You can pretty much do any design you want on that topic. Illustration, vector, pencil on paper, composition. Whatever it inspires you to do.

Time limit is roughly 20 minutes, I'll keep time. Can finish sooner, can run a little late, just helps keep everyone on track

So to start things out and keep it pretty open this weeks topic is going to be the letter "G"

go-me

So the topic is no topic, or you're not done?

Earthliŋ

Not feeling well today, so I might just sit back and watch. Happy G'ing =)

Ryan

timer is on

marcusdoesstuff

15:11

calendars... sunday or monday week start?

Ryan

about halfway on time

Matt Rockwell

does it get posted here when the time is up?

Ryan

if you'd like to share it then yes

20 minutes is up if you want to stick to that time limit

Matt Rockwell

15:30

JohnB

Ryan

nice Matt and John

JohnB

you as well, very recursive looking

@MattRockwell admittedly "Gangsta" is where my mind went to first when I thought of G, haha

Matt Rockwell

i have had this idea in my head for years ever since I saw the Microsoft Word one with dr dre

Ryan

i expected at least one person to take that route. That or money

Matt Rockwell

15:33

it was about to make it real

Ryan

@Darth_Vader came late but better be doing a cat gif inspired by "G". I'll be sad otherwise

go-me

Ryan

hah!

JohnB

nice, @go-me

Ryan

@Darth_Vader ah thats no good, have fun with that

Darth_Vader

15:35

and nice work from those that submitted

go-me

I had to amputate some guy to get the missing arm. He will survive, don't worry.

Matt Rockwell

hahaha

Ryan

well glad a few people came to participate. same time next week with a new topic for those that enjoyed it

JohnB

thanks for organizing it

Matt Rockwell

ya that was fun

marcusdoesstuff

15:39

- 'g' from good, as typed by Ryan. 16.35, 20th Aug 2015.

Ryan

weird @marcusdoesstuff kind of looks like it was embroidered on fabric and then photographed

i like it

Matt Rockwell

ya thats cool @marcusdoesstuff

marcusdoesstuff

given the game away that i started late though :P

go-me

JohnB

@marcusdoesstuff I'm reminded of this post graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/42336/8708 :)

did you use a macro lens or anything special?

marcusdoesstuff

15:46

heh nope

phone camera > g drive > photoshop enlarge/unsharp :P

JohnB

@Ryan is it part of your plan to post a roundup of each week's submissions as an answer to that meta post?

Ryan

uh no i hadn't planned to

suppose we could

Ryan

16:23

@JohnB done

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A: Thursday Weekly Design Challenge

20 August 2015 Topic provided was "G" Matt Rockwell: JohnB: go-me: marcusdoesstuff: And my own submission:

JohnB

awesome

hey @AndrewS

Ryan

17:09

@JohnB think you mispinged, Andrew Schultz or AndrewH

JohnB

18:01

I was hoping it would ping Andrew Shultz, you only need the first three letters (@Rya), but if I had done just @Andrew it would have pinged both

Ryan

I need to start saving my work more regularly. PS just crashed on me out of the blue and some really nice progress work :(

Im about to pass @Vincent thanks to not giving out bounties and him giving out one recently

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