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› August 29, 2002

Adobe utilities for Jaguar

  • Reported by Nate

Two little workarounds specifically for Jaguar and Photoshop 7 are available from Adobe. A keyboard shortcut fix which disables Jaguar's command plus tilde (app window switcher) so that the default photoshop shortcuts for these keys work again: "selecting the image composite in the Channels palette or selecting the master channel in the Levels and Curves dialog boxes". The other utility is labled Ignore EXIF Color Space plug-in, according to the introduction on Adobe's site some digital cameras (which ones?) send erronious EXIF data, specifiying that an image has an sRGB colorspace, when it may have another. As the name implies, this plug-in forces photoshop to pop open a dialog box in which you can choose the appropriate color profile. Links via MacNN.

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1. August 29, 2002 08:48 AM

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Nate Posted…

I forgot to mention my take on these little tools:
You could say that I feel quite comfortable with Adobe photoshop, I’ve been using it off and on for eleven years (although for limited applications). I don’t think I’ve ever used the keyboard shortcuts that this utility is supposed to re-enable, so the fact that Adobe has gone to the trouble to make this utility humbles me.
The color space plug-in is fantastic, however I wish that there were more information for diagnosing wether or not I need it before I willingly add another dialog box to my routine.
Note: these aren’t complaints, thank you Adobe for bothering to provide updates and fixes like this.

2. August 29, 2002 08:57 AM

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Nate Posted…

oof, one day I’ll add a spell checker to this comment entry box (and to the Moveable Type entry box). I’ve been interested in the wearable computing stuff that goes on here in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, I hope someday soon they will start making spell-checker sunglasses, wouldn’t that be helpfull? As tech support folks say, it’s a classic case of PEBKAC.

3. August 29, 2002 10:32 AM

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James Posted…

Nate, I’ve had a heck of a time finding a good spell check for web interfaces. What did you have in mind?

4. August 29, 2002 10:39 AM

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evan Posted…

Didn’t Paul Sowden (idontsmoke.co.uk) build one at one point?

Here it is, though perhaps not quite what you fellows are looking for.

5. August 29, 2002 11:17 AM

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Nate Posted…

I have not found a free of advertising open source spell checker, but also haven’t yet went looking very far. Paul’s spell checking system is great, it uses the built-in pspell functions of php I think. If I knew what I was doing I’d adapt the source code to apply spell checking functions in a reg-ex — off-focus way, sort of like how the entity replacement that gazingus wrote works. For those who haven’t commented: it replaces specific characters with entity numbers in this comment box when the focus is removed, super handy. Hey maybe even adding a red dashed underline to indicate words that need fixin? Easy for me to say.