The Graphic Mac: Apple | Adobe | Design blogs https://www.thegraphicmac.com/blog en Selectively override InDesign Master Page items https://www.thegraphicmac.com/selectively-override-indesign-master-page-items <p>InDesign's Master Pages are quite powerful, and make long documents easy to keep consistent. They do have their difficulties though when you try to alter items that are contained on the Master Pages themselves.</p> <div style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/files/id_master-page-override.jpg" alt="id_master-page-override.jpg" width="460" style="border:3px #959595 solid;"/></div> <p>The easy fix is to select all the pages you want to alter the Master Page items on in the Pages panel (<strong>Shift + Click</strong> to select more than one, or <strong>Command + Click</strong> to select noncontiguous pages), then select <strong>Override All Master Page Items</strong> from the Pages panel flyout menu.</p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/selectively-override-indesign-master-page-items#comments InDesign Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:36:13 -0700 James 1824 at http://thegraphicmac.com Shortcut to Photoshop's Fill dialog box https://www.thegraphicmac.com/shortcut-photoshops-fill-dialog-box <p>Rather than using your mouse to invoke Photoshop's color/patter Fill dialog box, you can use the quick keyboard shortcut, which is <strong>Shift + Delete</strong>.</p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/shortcut-photoshops-fill-dialog-box#comments Photoshop Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:32:16 -0700 James 1825 at http://thegraphicmac.com How to easily install extensions in Google Chromium for Mac OS X https://www.thegraphicmac.com/how-easily-install-extensions-google-chromium-mac-os-x <p>Google recently released the first public beta of their Chrome browser for Mac. While it's speedy as heck, it lacks many basic features such as bookmark management/organization. Another popular feature the Mac version lacks is extension support. That is, until now.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/how-easily-install-extensions-google-chromium-mac-os-x">read more</a></p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/how-easily-install-extensions-google-chromium-mac-os-x#comments Mac Apps Web Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:37:16 -0700 James 1822 at http://thegraphicmac.com Happy Holidays from The Graphic Mac! https://www.thegraphicmac.com/happy-holidays-graphic-mac <p><img src="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/files/site_merry-christmas.jpg"</img><br /> As Christmas day approaches, I want to thank everyone who has visited The Graphic Mac - and wish you all a safe and joyous holiday. I hope you all get everything from Santa that you had on your wish list!</p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/happy-holidays-graphic-mac#comments Site News Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:48:25 -0700 James 1827 at http://thegraphicmac.com Free Christmas images from Smashing Mag https://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-christmas-images-smashing-mag <div style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/files/res_christmas-images-free.jpg" alt="res_christmas-images-free.jpg" border="0" width="460" /></div> <p><em>Smashing Magazine</em> is offering a handful of free Christmas theme images for download. You can grab them <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/20/free-christmas-stock-photos/">here</a>.</p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-christmas-images-smashing-mag#comments Resources Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:36:51 -0700 James 1826 at http://thegraphicmac.com Stop InDesign from converting graphic frames to text frames https://www.thegraphicmac.com/stop-indesign-converting-graphic-frames-text-frames <p>A feature I love about InDesign is the ability to click any graphic frame with the text tool and begin typing in it immediately. However, not everyone likes their graphic frames converted to a text frame automatically.</p> <div style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/files/id_text-frame-convert.jpg" alt="id_text-frame-convert.jpg" border="0" width="460" /></div> <p>For those who wish to turn the feature off, simply visit your InDesign preferences (<strong>Command + K</strong>) and select Type in the source list on the left. Then <strong>uncheck</strong> the box labeled "Type Tool Converts Frames to Text Frames."</p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/stop-indesign-converting-graphic-frames-text-frames#comments InDesign Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:33:14 -0700 James 1823 at http://thegraphicmac.com Free Font: Junction https://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-font-junction <div style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/files/res_junction-font.jpg" alt="res_junction-font.jpg" width="460"/></div> <p><em>The League of Movable Type</em> has released <a href="http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/1-junction" alt="Junction font">Junction</a>, a beautiful sans serif typeface with an old-style serif look to it. Junction is an OpenType font with upper and lower case letters, punctuation and numbers; and is free to use for personal and commercial projects.</p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/free-font-junction#comments Resources Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:24:57 -0700 James 1820 at http://thegraphicmac.com Extended volume control for Leopard (10.5) users https://www.thegraphicmac.com/extended-volume-control-leopard-105-users <p><img src="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/files/aps_PTHVolume.png" alt="aps_PTHVolume.png" width="128" height="128" align="right" style="margin-top:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:8px; margin-left:10px; border:3px #ffffff solid;"/>If you're a Mac OS X user who hasn't upgraded to Snow Leopard yet, but you want more control over the volume and sound output sources, <em>PTH Consulting</em> has a great little app that offers the same functionality as Apple's built-in volume control menubar widget found in Mac OS x 10.6.</p> <p><a href="http://pth.com/products/pthvolume/" alt="PTHVolume">PTHVolume 2</a> is a menubar application that not only allows you to adjust the volume of your Mac, but offers you the ability to switch the sound output sources without making a tiresome trip to the OS X System Preferences.</p> <p><img src="https://www.thegraphicmac.com/files/aps_PTHVolume_main.jpg" alt="aps_PTHVolume_main.jpg" width="100" height="132" align="left" style="margin-top:0px; margin-right:10px; margin-bottom:8px; margin-left:0px; border:3px #ffffff solid;"/>PTHVolume (free) is particularly useful for Mac OS X users who, like me, have a nice set of external speakers set up on their Mac, but also like to use headphones at night or when anyone around you isn't particularly interested in listening to your personal taste in music.</p> <p>As you can see in the screenshot at the left, you can adjust the volume for each source individually; something you cannot do with Apple's built-in widget in Snow Leopard. Up until Snow Leopard, I was using this utility for a long time with no stability issues at all. It works perfectly.</p> https://www.thegraphicmac.com/extended-volume-control-leopard-105-users#comments Mac Apps Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:03:57 -0700 James 1821 at http://thegraphicmac.com