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Books are an enormous aid to me … I even read the software manuals packed with new software IF they send any … Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design [Standard] {PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat} did not come with any printed manuals [manuals are for sale at Adobe] … it came with an entire DVD though with movies for the various programs – it is quite helpful, though sometimes for me … I need to read it in print and watch how they are doing it.

Playing with the program is a good thing to do as well. These particular programs are powerful but complex and have steep learning curves. I haven’t used either PhotoShop or Illustrator for the last 3 or 4 versions so they have changed them a lot … I’ve never used InDesign before so that is going a bit slowly.

I am building my template grids and basic stuff … character styles, paragraph styles, creating a library with repeating elements, headers and footers …. the preset text variables work great but I am not getting my text variables to work – I need the chapter name in the header and though I followed the directions {I think}, that variable is not updating from the first use of the heading. I will be working on this more next week though I also have other new projects to work on … never a dull moment … always lots to do and a short time to do it in.

I’ve also been playing my PSP Final Fantasy Tactics game a bit too for a change of pace … about an hour or so every couple days or so. The old saying that all work and no play makes ya a dull person is quite true! {I updated my post about that with my reactions to the game.}

Posted under Computers / Electronics, Games / Gaming

The joys of puppies and electrical cords. My daughter rescued a couple puppies and not only is she working on trying to find them a home, potty train but also to continue working as a Realtor. She has a Dell laptop – no desktop … and one of the puppies bit the cord yesterday. She called me to ask if she could buy replacement cords (yes – I told her a couple places to try – Best Buy locally had the best price) her husband was out of town fishing in a fishing tournament with his Dad. She didn’t have time to go get a new cord – she had houses to show so I was at her house puppy and grandson watching while she worked and she tried plugging her old one in a few hours later and it started working again so unless it quits working, she won’t have to buy a new one – that will save her a hundred bucks in her Texas puppy escapades.

She is busy puppy proofing her home today to safeguard the puppies (plugged in electrical cords are EXTREMELY dangerous to pets – young puppies and kittens in particular!) and her electrical cords. Replacement plug in cords are a marvel of technology – I remember when you needed an electrician that knew how to replace a cord if you were unwilling to discard an appliance due to puppy cord chewing.

Posted under Computers / Electronics