#27214
Cleaning Up Text Pasted from the Web
The ease of copying and pasting text from Web sites and email greatly simplifies many tasks in Word, but problems often arise in making the pasted text conform to the style of the document into which it is pasted. One of the most common chores is getting rid of excess line breaks, which cause the text to wrap short of the right margin. There are several ways to work around this problem.
Barnhill, Suzanne and Dave Rado. Word MVP Site, The (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Software>Microsoft Word
#26317
Cleaning Your Web Pages with HTML Tidy
A detailed article on using the HTML Tidy utility to clear up problems in an HTML file.
Nesbitt, Scott. InformIT (2004). Articles>Web Design>HTML>Software
#21808
If you're stuck in the rut of the default settings that Microsoft applies to its software, you're missing out: Here's a guide to customizing Windows systems to strip away annoying 'features' and enhance usability.
Garfinkel, Simson L. Technology Review (2004). Articles>Software>Operating Systems>Microsoft Windows
#18365
Chances are you have watched your best intentions evaporate under pressure, to find yourself tweaking PowerPoint slides in the desperate hours or minutes before your presentation, scrambling to make time for a quick rehearsal and hoping against hope that you'll be able to pull off a miracle. Indeed, if good intentions paid dividends, plenty of presenters would have tidy sums to add to their retirement nest eggs. Procrastination being the force of nature it is, however, no matter how much lead time presenters give themselves and no matter how many resources are at their disposal, more often than not, the presentation-development process devolves from noble ambitions to utter chaos.
Zielinski, Dave. Presentations (2002). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#19539
Clustering and Dependencies in Free/Open Source Software Development: Methodology and Tools 
This paper addresses the problem of measurement of non-monetary economic activity, specifically in the area of free/open source software [1] communities. It describes the problems associated with research on these communities in the absence of measurable monetary transactions, and suggests possible alternatives. A class of techniques using software source code as factual documentation of economic activity is described and a methodology for the extraction, interpretation and analysis of empirical data from software source code is detailed, with the outline of algorithms for identifying collaborative authorship and determining the identity of coherent economic actors in developer communities. Finally, conclusions are drawn from the application of these techniques to a base of software.
Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab. First Monday (2003). Articles>Software>Open Source>Community
#27375
This site is provided as a community service to everyone interested in looking for a means to manage web site content. Here you can discuss, rate, and compare the various systems available on the market today.
CMS Matrix. Resources>Content Management>Software>Assessment
#14306
Collaborative Virtual Workspace
CVW is a collaboration software environment that provides a 'virtual building' where teams can communicate, collaborate, and share information, regardless of their geographic location. CVW takes virtual meetings one step further and enables virtual co-location through persistent virtual rooms, each incorporating people, information, and tools appropriate to a task, operation, or service.
SourceForge (2001). Resources>Software>Collaboration>Open Source
#25183
Color Corrections with Hue/Saturation
Hue/Saturation dialog uses HSB (hue-saturation-brightness) model of the color presentation. The slider Hue shifts color position on the rainbow-colored bar at the bottom of the dialog, Saturation can increase/decrease color intensity, while Lightness changes its brightness
Doubrovski, Andrei. Photoshop 911 (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#18334
Establishing color control on the desktop can prove to be a frustrating task. And when you're dealing with color-critical customers or just plain want decent color, that's not the best situation. This PDF by Scott Olswold and Rick Dumont explains the fundamentals behind color management and then applies this discussion in terms of PageMaker.
Olswold, Scott. Makingpages.org (2002). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
#20510
See the same colors in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, thanks to the Adobe Color Engine.
Adobe (2003). Design>Document Design>Software>Color
#25186
Color Photo from Black and White
This reader wants to make a color photo from a black and white. Tough question.
Photoshop 911 (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#28523
Coloring Old Black and White Drawings
Step 1. Clean up any blemishes or distracting marks in the illustration. Make it as perfect a B & W illustration as you can. Make sure the contrast, sharpness and clarity are uniform throughout. Step 2. You will have sharply clear demarcations of tone which are easy and you will have areas where the tones between parts are quite similar and therefore more difficult. Start by using the Keep-Color brush to preserve everything you do not wish to color. Carefully outline each element with your chosen color being sure there are no unwanted gaps. Where there is no demarcation between tones, you should outline each color as precisely as you can. Also, the original may have lines separating the sleeve from the jacket for example. Cover that line with the Keep-Color brush and put a line of your chosen color closely beside each side of the line. Step 3. Press the run button (green arrow) and be amazed when your B & W illustration pops into color just as you ordered. Press the green check mark , the AKVIS window closes and the changes are applied to your original graphic. Save your new image immediately."
Sisson, Gordon. AKVIS (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#25188
Laying color over a map is easier than you think and it doesn't require brushes.
Photoshop 911 (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#21893
In Acrobat 4, you open one PDF file. Then in the 'document' menu, choose 'insert file.' You’ll have to do this four times to bring your five documents together.
Harris, Steve. PDFzone (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#20907
A USENET newsgroup for discussion among users of Adobe FrameMaker.
#27130
Comparing Apples and Oranges to CMS Software
As ridiculous as that may sound many are getting away with doing it. There are many comparisons of open source CMS software that are popping up that are total garbage. The reviewers are comparing CMS systems that are in 5 to 8 different categories and have 4 different sets of requirements. No wonder they are confused and can't make a choice.
Hiveminds (2006). Articles>Content Management>Software
#30997
Comparing Open Source CMSes: Joomla, Drupal and Plone
Open source content management systems can make creating and managing your website a lot easier - and there's no licensing fee involved. But which should you use? We look carefully at Joomla, Drupal, and Plone to compare their strengths and weaknesses.
Bonfield, Brett and Laura Quinn. IdealWare (2007). Articles>Content Management>Software
#26105
Comparison of Ways to do Things using Microsoft Word and OOoWriter
Experienced users of Microsoft Word may take awhile to discover how to do common tasks in OOWriter, because some of the menus and the terminology are a bit different; in a few cases no direct equivalent method is available. This series of pages summarizes my research and experiments with OOoWriter 1.1 on Windows ME. You may find some differences if you're using another operating system or version of OpenOffice.
OpenOffice.org (2004). Articles>Word Processing>Software>OpenOffice
#26296
Compendium of Translation Software
A directory of commercial machine translation systems and computer-aided translation support tools.
John Hutchins (2007). Resources>Software>Localization>Machine Translation
#19449
Compound Mediation in Software Development: Using Genre Ecologies to Study Textual Artifacts
Traditionally, technical communicators have seen the texts that they produce -- manuals, references, instructions -- as 'bridging' or mediating between a worker and her tool. But field studies of workers indicate that the mediational relationship is much more complicated: Workers often draw simultaneously upon many different textual artifacts to mediate their work, including not only the official genres produced by technical communicators manuals but also ad hoc notes, comments, and improvisational drawings produced by the workers themselves. In this chapter, I theorize these instances of compound mediatiation by drawing on activity theory and genre theory. I describe an analytical framework, that of genre ecologies, that can be used to systematically investigate compound mediation within and across groups of workers. Unlike other analytical frameworks that have been used in studies of technology (such as distributed cognition's functional systems and contextual design's work models), the genre ecology framework highlights the interpretive and cultural-historical aspects of compound mediation that are so important in understanding the use of textual artifacts. The analytical framework is illustrated by an observational study of how 22 software developers in a global corporation used various textual artifacts to mediate their software development work.
Spinuzzi, Clay. WAC Clearinghouse (2002). Design>Collaboration>Software
#28062
You can use InDesign's compound paths and transparency features to create a recessed text compartment in an image.
Cole, Tim. Adobe Evangelists (2006). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#32044
Conditional-CSS allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers.
#23084
The default layout of the Pages pane displays a single column of small thumbnail pictures of the pages. The default is fine for most kinds of work when you have a document consisting of several pages. However, when working with a very large document, you might want to make the thumbnails smaller and increase the number of thumbnail columns to see more at once. If you have to be able to see the content of the thumbnails, you'll want to increase their size.
Baker, Donna L. PlanetPDF (2001). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#25214
Consistent Web Design with Dreamweaver Templates
Templates are a fantastic time-saving tool. They allow you to create pages that share the same design but contain different content. If you modify a template document, you immediately update the design of all pages that were created from that template.
Fletcher, Mark. Adobe (2004). Design>Web Design>Software>Dreamweaver
#26365
This paper outlines the requirements for console accessibility in Microsoft Windows XP.
Microsoft (2001). Design>Accessibility>Software
