I am new in Expression Blend3. Now I got a game created in it and asked me to edit the interface. I successfully changed the font and colour. But somethings are inserted as "Path" as it's showing in Properties. I want to replace the current ones with new one. Can I make a file in PSD (or png, jpeg etc) and replace it with current path image? How it can be possible? Thanks in advance.
You can edit a Path by selecting that Path in the layers tab and editing the properties in the properties tab.
As for Photoshop, there's Import from Photoshop and Import from Illustrator in Blend 3, these is a really neat update for Blend 3 as it manages the layers from a PSD so that you have your layers within Blend.
Hope that helps!
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I have a PowerPoint template. When this template was passed off It included some special fonts that I needed to remove because it was throwing warnings when users opened them up.
When I use the "replace fonts" feature it does not remove the font. I deal a lot with the XML properties of these templates because some of the content is generated dynamically when a report is run. I can still see in the slides the font is present
<a:buFont typeface="Poppins"/> the other is <a:buFont typeface="Noto Sans Symbols"/>
Which both appear to be bullet list fonts? There are no lists in the view though...
Removing it from the XML itself is not an option because when I update the template again it will override that and given that doesn't happen often I will have forgotten all about this. I need to fix this in the template so I can then export it out.
I have edited all the text I can see to either Ariel or Calibri but this Poppins font is still in there and I have no idea how to get it out.
Specifics are
Powerpoint version is 16.36
The program is actually Powerpoint for Mac (if that matters)
If anyone solved a similar issue and can give me some direction it would be much appreciated.
The buFont tag means that font is being used for a bullet rather than actual text. Probably a text level somewhere uses a custom bullet specced with this font. Each content or text placeholder can have up to 9 text levels, you may hove to create 9 levels using Home>Indent More to find the right one.
Start with the Slide Master (View>Slide Master>the larger thumbnail at the top). Then check each placeholder on each Layout (smaller thumbnails below the Master). Finally, check each multilevel placeholder on each slide, in case this was added with local formatting.
My go-to technique is to unzip the presentation into the XML files and do a find and replace on them. That's the quickest way to replace fonts, which can be tucked away in all kinds of obscure places in a presentation. On a Mac, this takes a bit of preparation to avoid problems caused by the OS. If you regularly create PowerPoint files, it may be worth it to set this up. Here's my article on this: OOXML Hacking: Editing in macOS. Look for the part about using a USB or network drive that is set to not create hidden .DS_Store files. Then use a text editor like BBEdit to do multi-file find and replace operations on the font name.
I have PowerPoint 16.39 on my MacBook Pro. Try to click on PowerPoint in the upper left. Then Preferences, then the Save icon. At the bottom you'll have Font Embedding. If you un-check this option, it should not save fonts to the template anymore.
I'm using Visual Paradigm to draw my use-cases diagrams.
For nicer presentation, I want my all my use-cases to have the same shape. Instead of resizing them manually, I want to use the format copier to achieve this.
I followed the steps as explained here : https://www.visual-paradigm.com/support/documents/vpuserguide/1283/33/26921_formatcopier.html
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work.
Tested method:
Left-Click on the shape I want to copy format.
Left-Click on the "Format Copier" button in the menubar.
Left-Click on the use-case I want to apply copied format.
(Here's a short clip showing the manipulation : https://i.gyazo.com/41462b8cc0b4114be8c6ebe490fadab3.mp4)
It doesn't change anything and simply select the new shape I clicked without reformatting anything.
Is there another way to do this ? Or am I doing something wrong ?
The format copier is specific for copy the "styles and formatting" information, which are the fonts, foreground and background styles. For the size you can select multiple shapes on diagram then mouse over your selection to bring up the resource icons for setting the size of multiple elements at once.
With Photoshop I have multiple web banners at different sizes that contain the same image. Is there a way to change the image on one psd file so that it will automatically change on all the other psd files?
I'm using Creative Cloud
Any help will be really appreciated
Thanks
Create the banner in the biggest size
Right click the layer and choose Convert to smart object
Create a new document with next banner measurements. Go back to the already created banner and use the move tool (v) and drag the layer/layers in to the new document.
If you now doubleclick your smart object (doesnt matter in which document) you will open a new document. If you make any changes there it will be changed in both banners.
You can choose more than one layer to become a smart object together. When you double click the smart object you will find all your layers separate but in the banner document it will only show as one file.
This is what the symbol on a smart layer looks like
One option is to use linked smart objects.
If you have photoshop CC you can follow this for instruction on how you'd do it.
(Sorry for the link only answer but it's a video and will make more sense then listing the steps)
if you use Photoshop CC 2014 or 2015 you can place images as linked files, same way as InDesign or HTML docs. Adobe gives now two choices Place Embeded or Place Linked.
Basically, I'd like to resize or resample a .png image (in order to reduce its file size) and yet retain it's transparency.
Anybody got an idea how best to go about this?
Thanks.
You can use paint.net, it is a free tool. Although it is pretty basic, it does the job.
Go to Image > Resize
Stumbled upon this thread and found the following site that does exactly what is requested: https://onlinepngtools.com/resize-png
What graphics program are you using?
Photoshop does this by simply going thru IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE and resizing. Transparency is not affected.
I'm sure Paint Shop Pro does the same
I know this is an old question, but the answer that worked for me was to use Inkscape.
Start Inkscape (free on Inkscape.org).
File -> Import... (Ctrl+I) the PNG file you want to resize (defaults on import dialog are ok).
With the image you just imported selected, select File -> Export PNG image... (Shift+Ctrl+E)
In the Export PNG Image tool pane, click the Export As... button to set the output filename and location.
In this same tool pane, set the image size using width/height or pixels.
In this same tool pane, click the Export button to create the output file.
This worked for me, hope it helps someone else.
Providing the image you have created / have been working on is transparent in the first place, using the "Resize" or "Resample" tools in any major image editing package (e.g. PhotoShop, PaintShop Pro and so on) should not affect (or lose) the transparency at all.
I use PaintShop Pro (X6, 64 Bit) myself and typically find that the "PNG Optimizer" option offers more options along these lines (than the default "Save As > .png" route).
Hope that this helps (specific to PaintShop Pro Users) in relation to the source question.
While I was waiting for the downloads of other image editing softwares, I tried Microsoft Power Point and succeeded in preserving the transparency.
Drag the image inside any slide, crop or resize, then save as a new picture as .png.
You can drag the image back in ppt to confirm the transparency is maintained
The complete Autodesk Sketchbook is now out for free including all the previous premium features such as resizing an image.
You do it as you would in paint by clicking on Image > Image Size... and then you can save as a .png without losing transparency.
Image size can be reduced by reducing number of colors and there are online tools to do this .
Try these..Hope they solve your problem
https://tinypng.com/
http://pngcrush.com/ and
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/ --It provides more output images with different number of colors. However, smoothness will be effected, take care.
We are trying to use XMPie to dynamically bring in pdf files and center them within a frame. However, in a manner similar to Photoshop the files are being imported by Bounding box and not allowing us to set any other parameters. We can get it to work on an individual level by importing the file but InDesign nor XMPie will remember these settings. Any help would be appreciated.
We need these to import by Media Box and center & we are using InDesign CS5.5.
Thanks.
What you need to do is to delete everything outside of the visible pdf page size and then place it. I use step and repeat to the same page size by quite imposing in acrobat.