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Dagatal 2012

Nú er árið 2012 alveg að fara að skella á. Mar­gir eru að leita að íslen­sku dagatali eða almanaki til þess að geta notað á iCloud, mökkum, iPad, Google Cal­en­dar og fleira.

Hérna er í það minnsta dagatal sem hægt er að tengja inn makka– og iPad / iPhone megin. Og eins er krækja fyrir vikunúmerin hér.

Þeir sem nú þegar eru tengdir þessu í áskrift þurfa að tengja aftur því iCloud notar aðra slóð að áskriftum.

Þetta kemur yfir­leitt ekki rétt með íslen­skum stö­fum inn í Google Cal­en­dar, en fyrir þá sem nota það er hægt að hala niður skránni fyrir 2012 hér og fyrir vikunúmerin hér. Þegar skráin er komin niður er farið inn í Google Cal­en­dar og í Add Calendar>Import

Ég uppfæri þes­sar skrár árlega þan­nig að þeir sem nota ics skrárnar þurfa að sækja nýjar árlega, en þeir sem nota iCal áskriftina þurfa ekki að hugsa neitt meira um það. Meiri upplýsin­gar um þetta er að finna í öðrum færslum (leita bara að Dagatal).

Ég læt að gamni fyl­gja með umsögn ánægðs notanda sem birtist á Twitter:

Vona að þetta gag­nist mör­gum öðrum.

Draw a Braun watch in Illustrator

At the minimalismo.com site, I came across an arti­cle show­ing re-issued line of Braun watches from the sev­en­ties, designed by Dieter Rams and Diet­rich Lubs. At the same time I was try­ing to solve a long time issue I have been deal­ing with in Illus­tra­tor, where I was try­ing to find a for­mula to use with Illus­tra­tors Trans­form Effect. I used a por­tion of this draw­ing to explain that issue solv­ing. So I when I was show­ing this prob­lem to oth­ers I kept get­ting ques­tions about the draw­ing itself and in the end I decided to make a tuto­r­ial for every­one to play with.

There are sev­eral ways one could make a vec­tor draw­ing of this watch but the way I am show­ing here aims at mak­ing some major ele­ments of the draw­ing reusable. This may seem to make it more com­pli­cated but I am hop­ing that this will open some­ones eyes for meth­ods they might not have been using until now.

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Cal­cu­late mul­ti­ple objects in a cir­cle in Illustrator

When you are draw­ing or design­ing in Illus­tra­tor you prob­a­bly at one time or another need to put mul­ti­ple objects in a cir­cle. This is basi­cally very easy by using the rotated tool, click some­where you want the cen­ter of rota­tion to be and drag the object while you hold the mouse. Repeat this process over and over or sim­ply do Object > Trans­form > Trans­form Again or even Com­mand + D.

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Mak­ing seam­less pat­terns in Illustrator

Mak­ing a pat­tern in Illus­tra­tor can be as sim­ple as drag­ging any object or objects to the Swatch panel and you have got a pat­tern so to speak. But that is not what is called a seam­less pat­tern where the pat­tern repeats itself in all directions.

To make a seam­less pat­tern in Illus­tra­tor one needs to make the base pat­tern with in a square of any size. Con­tinue reading…

Con­tact Sheets in PDF in Bridge replace the older InDe­sign plug-in

Bridge CS3 has a very nice fea­ture that makes it easy to make con­tact sheets of pic­tures directly to InDe­sign. This fea­ture was removed as of Bridge CS4 and is sorely missed by many.

If you are still get­ting pissed try­ing to find this fea­ture under Tools in Bridge, you should know that there are at least two great options you have.

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Illus­tra­tor Key­board Short­cuts for For­eign Languages

One of the very best ways to make work­ing on a com­puter effi­cient is to use key­board short­cuts. You know, Cmd + C to copy and Cmd + V to paste. I am see­ing peo­ple who have used com­put­ers for over fif­teen years still using the mouse to do these com­mands from the menus. Con­tinue reading…

Dagatal 2011

Mér fannst rét­tast að skjóta inn hérna smá pistli um dagatal eða almanak fyrir 2011 því það eru svo mar­gir sem lenda inni á font.is þegar þeir slá þessu inn í leit.

Í stuttu máli þá er almanökin, sem eru gerð með iCal í huga uppfærð fyrir 2011 og ein fjögur ár fram í tímann. Munið bara að stilla á að Refresh All sé vikulega svo uppfærslur og hugsan­le­gar breytin­gar skili sér inn. Þeir sem eru nú þegar áskrifendur að þessu þurfa ekki að ná sér í þetta aftur. Con­tinue reading…

Grid Sys­tems : Cal­cu­late grids for lay­outs in InDe­sign with the help of the Easy Grid Calculator

One of the tools I have used while cal­cu­lat­ing a grid for a lay­out was an Excel file I had used to exper­i­ment with dif­fer­ent kinds of cal­cu­la­tion meth­ods. A col­lec­tion of over a dozen dif­fer­ent cal­cu­la­tors for find­ing out dif­fer­ent ele­ments of the grid. I finally glued the dif­fer­ent parts together and placed online as the Easy Grid Cal­cu­la­tor, free for every­one to use (dona­tions wel­comed of course). The Easy Grid Cal­cu­la­tor should save you a lot of time con­sum­ing cal­cu­la­tions and allow more time exper­i­ment­ing. Now it is time to dive into what this cal­cu­la­tor is all about.

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Love rela­tion­ship between Illus­tra­tor and Font­Lab bro­ken with CS5

In the arti­cle Using Illus­tra­tor to draw fonts for import­ing into Font­Lab, which I wrote sev­eral years ago, I describe how nice it is to use Illus­tra­tor and Font­Lab together. This is espe­cially nice for those who have made sketches for a font in Illus­tra­tor and need to move it into Font­Lab. For oth­ers it’s help­ful to be able to move one or more glyphs from Font­Lab for easy fix­ing and then paste it back to the exact position.

This beau­ti­ful rela­tion­ship has come to an end in Illus­tra­tor CS5. Con­tinue reading…

Cus­tomize Quick­Look for fonts

Quick­Look, the abil­ity to see a quick pre­view of files and fold­ers sim­ply by select­ing and then press­ing the Space bar has been avail­able for some time now.

This is a great time saver and gives access to infor­ma­tion that in many cases you would oth­er­wise have to install spe­cific soft­ware to get. Quick­Look can view was num­ber of for­mats but it is pos­si­ble to extent its use by adding plug-ins to it. Most of them are free. Some soft­ware devel­op­ers offer plug-ins for Quick­Look for their soft­ware if Quick­Look does not pre­view files made by their software.

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