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04:41
Stupid indesign question: Is there a quick way of changing the font of threaded text frames?
for non-threaded frames, it's just a case of selecting the frame, then selecting a font. But for threaded frames, I have to click into the frame and select all text...
 
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09:48
@johnp Are we talking indesign or what? Usually you would use styles but yes if you use teh character panel it should work no matterwhat the selection is.
Atleast i works in illustrator
 
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14:16
@Ryan you ever get a bug in Premiere where your video preview just shows a black sceen? It seems to be tied to the corner pin effect for me, but I'm not having any luck searching for the problem
restarting Premiere temporarily fixes it but then it seems to randomly happen again
@JohnB I think I did have that issue at one point and fixed it but don't recall from memory what it was or how I fixed it
One second, let me open Premiere and see if anything comes to mind
I might try applying the effect in AE then importing that as a workaround
What effect are you trying to do?
corner pin
I don't know what that means
Like warping something from the corner?
14:27
my GPU driver isn't up to date, I'll start there and cross my fingers
yeah thats probably the issue. Make sure framerates are the same too
hmm, I think I have the sequence framerate at 60 and the source video is 30
I'll try that too, thanks
sure thing. If you can't get it and need me to drop the video in place for you just let me know. I can composite it and push it back out to you
I wouldn't try doing this in AE
it's nothing important, just toying around for some personal stuff. Thanks for the offer though
15:00
I hate Thunderbird
hey everyone
I'm sorry but Outlook is so much better you make me sad
@Ryan need a lightning rod? :P
Heh, I prefer Thunderbird over Outlook any day. Guess it's a matter of taste
do you use any add-ons?
nope
15:03
I hate it compared to Outlook 2007
I want my mail program to be as lean and sleek as possible
How do you keep it organized? I think the Search function is awful
I make a lot of subfolders
sorted by customer number
like when I search it goes to the search interface or whatever its called. I wish it would just stay in the email list and for the love of all which is good stop opening new tabs
I'm a bit of a neurotic sorter myself, so I hardly ever have to use the search function
15:12
I don't have that anywhere that I can find
I might look at Mailbird
 
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18:56
@joojaa Thanks for your reply. Yeah, it's indesign. Usually I would use styles but I'm testing out some font choices first. The font selector is greyed out in both panels...
Hey @Ryan any idea about this? Trying to change the font of threaded text frames...It's annoying having to click into the frame each time, and select the actually text itself...
*actual
hmm you know I imagine there's a way, but I don't know it off hand
I mean if you're using Styles you could edit the style
I can't create a new style though...
I'll have to do it the long way I guess
Should my question be protected to prevent answers like the most recent?
@johnp why can't you create a new style?
Well I can, but to change the font for that style, usually I'd just use the font selector and create a new paragraph/character style that way...
the font property controls are all greyed out
19:11
@ZachSaucier I don't see any recent answers?
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A: How can I improve my handwriting ability?

DavidSlowing down helps. If I carefully and exactly draw each letter and go about one to two words per minute, it is clear enough that other people can read it. It is still painful to look at but it can be read.

hmm.. its not spam or off-topic. Its just not really very useful either. Might be worth locking anyways though since it gets so many views
Are there any down sides to doing so?
@johnp huh? what Font Properties are greyed out?
@ZachSaucier new users that want to leave detailed answers won't be able to just like new users wanting to leave cruddy answers won't be able to.
I see
I suppose the usefulness comes if it's more likely to have crappy answers as opposed to great ones
19:14
oh wait, its already protected by Darth
@Darth_Vader protected it 3 hours ago
Banner blindness :P
The way this laptop screen is, unless I have it angled correctly that yellow color looks white like the rest
it stinks when looking through new Qs, I have to change the angle of the screen
??
@ZachSaucier your question was protected because there are a number of deleted spam posts that meet my requirement to protect a question.
19:40
@Ryan i uploaded an image
yeah but that's not using Styles
you can't change that character panel without selecting the text as you discovered, but you can change a style
I'm also changing the style but it isn't working ;(
one sec
It should be changing to Chaparral
You need to set it first, set it once, then you can edit the style
19:45
yeah, I have. I guess it's some kind of bug...
nah, still there...so strange
Is it set as P1?
yup
i can change non-threaded text frames without any issues
yeah I'm seeing some issues but I can still change it non-threaded if I edit the Paragraph Style
I can't easily switch from Paragraph 1 to say Basic, but I can literally edit Paragraph 1
yeah me too.
even when i edit the style it isn't applied to the threaded ones... how do you get around this? i can edit the threaded ones when i literally go into the frame and select the text itself
19:52
:v made me laugh
thats two boxes threaded together, the empty area is just behind the dialog box
It has to be a bug. I refuse to be stupid!
ah, i give up. i don't like mondays
20:16
Thanks for your help by the way
sorry I couldn't help you solve it
20:32
@JohnB please review one more close vote. This 999 business is killing me.
:)
I have evil plans
I figured as much, you've been sitting there a while!
hi @Johannes how are you?
20:49
Pretty good @Ryan
just working like crazy :(
how are you?
@Johannes I'm good, just finishing up another video for work
What do you do on the videos? Shooting? Editing?
pick the topic, shoot the footage, edit, write the script, do the voiceover, composite, color correct.. everything
Oh, nice. IS that your full-time job, making videos?
I'm the entire Marketing Dept. for a manufacturing company. Brochures, advertisements, press releases, videos, trade show displays, attending those trade shows, website updates / maintenance, and just about anything else that needs done
20:56
Sounds like you keep yourself busy too, haha.
eh can be slow and exhausting a lot of the time just because I'm the whole dept so staying fresh is a challenge.
What is your job?
21:17
I'm the lead UI developer at the company I work for.
So I make sure the product looks and functions well for our clients.
21:51
All I do is stare longingly out the window like someone from a Bronté novel ;(
do you get paid to do that?
...sometimes
that doesn't sound too terrible. :p
hehe, I'm just working on college deferrals. Come new year hopefully I'll be an intern somewhere
Oh nice, what are you trying to get into?
21:55
I don't think we spoke before, fairly new to this. I tend to wreck everyone's heads in the chatroom in the absence of a social life
I only pop in here every now and then and I typically don't chat much, so that's probably why.
Not that I don't want to chat, I just usually don't :)
Well generally branding I guess. I'm a jack of all trades thus far. I would love to do illustration but from what I gather it takes a lot of time to get going
I see, I see. Are you stateside or in Europe? I'm Irish
So more of the design aspect of branding? Or also like the markesting/avdertising side?
I'm in the US.
but originally from Germany.
I'm open to both. But I'd prefer to work for a design studio before an ad agency. Depends though
Cool, the Germans are great typographers
Not this one!
You looking to stay in Ireland or head elsewhere?
22:00
haha, I'll probably move somewhere in Europe, maybe just the UK. There's some work here but the pay isn't great with this new internship type scheme that's in
Germany is a hot spot these days actually. I don't speak the language unfortunately
Germany has an intern scheme?
oh no, I have no idea

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