Moving around the document

Is it possible to see the area off screen to the left and top of the slide?
When you zoom out the slide fits in the top left corner hiding everything left and above? Which makes things difficult when you want something to come on from the left or above in terms of positioning?

There isn't any way to see that part of the work area, unfortunately.

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Moving Around the Timeline

Hi,
Just a quick question about moving around the timeline. I'm using the up and down arrow keys to jump between cuts, but for some reason I can jump back beween cuts, but when clips are stepped up it doesn't seem to let me jump forward to the next edit.(I'm on the FCP keyboard config)
Also, to jump forward the begining, or back to the end I'm supposed to use the home/end key. does anyone know what this is on a MacBook Pro keyboard?
Thx

I'm using the up and down arrow keys to jump between cuts, but for some reason I can jump back beween cuts, but when clips are stepped up it doesn't seem to let me jump forward to the next edit.
I assume you're referring to when you have more than one track with clips on them. In that case, you need to be mindful of which tracks are targeted; that controls which tracks are subject to the Next/Previous Edit commands.
For example:
Any track that isn't targeted will be ignored by the Next/Previous Edit commands. Just click the header "button" to enable or disable a track. Track targeting affects many other operations in Premiere Pro--for example, adding edits or applying transitions. Check out this Help document page for some more info: Targeting tracks
Not sure about the MBP keyboard question, but a Google search for such turned up this: Home and End Keys on the Macbook Pro

IPad mini keeps clicking when open and green bars highlight and keep moving around the screen

MY iPad mini when open keeps clicking and a green bar keeps moving around the screen highlighting things, how do I stop it?

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Switch Control and turn this OFF.

HHow to create a keyline around the document perimeter

Hey guys,
I am trying to create a keyline around the document instead of using the crop mark. I would like to automate this task for each documents for any size I create. Does somebody tried to set up a applescript for that?
I found a bunch of script about how to create a stroke for text frame but I don't know how to create a black stroke in the size of my artboard.... Help me please!
Thanks

Is this you asking?
var doc = app.activeDocument, pages = doc.pages,
width = doc.documentPreferences.pageWidth, height = doc.documentPreferences.pageHeight,
oldRO = doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin;
doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.PAGE_ORIGIN;
for(var i=pages.length-1;i>=0;i--)
        var txfm = pages[i].textFrames.add();
        txfm.strokeWeight = 1;
        txfm.strokeType = "Solid";
        txfm.geometricBounds = [0,0,height,width];
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Chinna

Iweb background stretches when objects are moved around the page

Hello, I am creating a simple site in iWeb and I cannot get my background image to be consistent through all of my pages. What I mean is the position of the image varies slightly through the pages. In my home page (and all of my other pages)the background is set to "Image Fill" and "Scale to Fill", and the page sizes are all the same at 700px wide by 480px high. I have the nav bar and page heading/title positioned exactly the same on all pages also.
I notice that when I move around text boxes that are in a page the background stretches or shrinks depending on the position of the box, and am assuming that this has something to do with it, but like I said before, the navigation and header "text boxes" are all positioned the same. Is there any way to turn off this scaling of the background when moving objects around the page? Or does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this image and make it consistent through all of my pages? Thanks for your help.

When you set as image as a page background and set it to scale for fill, when you move text downward, extending the length of the page, the image size will change no matter what fill option is used, fit, fill stretch or tile. Using the original size will keep the image exactly the same in all instances but if the page is lengthened beyond the images height you'll get the browser's background to show in the page. But, if you size the image you're using to be taller than any of your pages it will be fixed in all your pages. NOTE: You can use this method only on White and Black blog layouts. However it the blog length gets long it will extend beyond the image height. So set up the image and blog accordingly.
Try using the image for the browser background and set the page background to none. That will keep the image the same for all layouts. If you have a blog you can change the theme to White or Black, depending on the font color needed, and can use the image for browser background method. The image will need to be large enough to fill the browser's window and will be locked at the left edge. That is if the browser window is widened the image will not be centered but set at the left side of the window.

Moving around the canvas in Preview

Without a trackpad, is there an easy way to navigate around a large zoomed in document while in Preview? (using scroll bars is not easy)
In most Adobe apps, if I hold down the spacebar, I get a hand tool that allows me to pan around an image. But I don't know of any keyboard shortcut or tool inside of Preview. (There used to be a hand tool in Snow Leopard's Preview, if I remember correctly)

Hold down option and space.

HT1766 how to find the icon which can be moved around the screen with "siri, favorites,home device"?

I'd like tohave the moving icon which contains siri,favorites,home and ddevice, you can move it around on the ipad screen. It's a small round one,but becomes square when it is bigger. so where to find it and how to install it?

Try Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch
~Lyssa

Tips for moving around the timeline

Trying to get the hang of this Premiere thing and use as many keyboard shortcuts as possible. I've skimmed through the online help and picked up some useful ones (like - + \ for zooming)
Is there any way to scroll vertically besides the scroll bars? The hand tool only wants to scroll horizontally.
Also, if I'm zoomed in, how do I scroll down the timeline? Page Up/Down only gets me to the next clip.
Any shortcuts to twirl open a track?
Lastly, is there any sort of gap detector? Trying to hunt down 1 frame gaps is a pain.

Colin, but what do you think about consistency between applications within a suite?
Well, I agree that's important, but you need to consider that they're still different applications with different purposes and different modalities.
After Effects is temporally-based, but it's also--and perhaps more so--spatially-based. What I mean is that, while you are concerned with timing in AE (naturally--it's for animating), you're also focusing largely on positioning elements in space. In AE, everything resides on its own layer, even if parts of a comp are separated by time.
In Premiere Pro, the focus is different. Yes, of course, you're positioning things spatially, particularly since PPro has gained more and more compositing capabilities. But ultimately, you're primarily concerned with positioning elements in time more than in space. When I'm working in an NLE--PPro or otherwise--I'm working with full-frame video 95%+ of the time, and I'm not moving clips around in a frame. However, I am moving clips around in time--before this one, after that one, etc. Therefore, PPro and all other NLEs are more "horizontally-oriented" if you consider time a horizontal plane as depicted by the time ruler.
So, no--I do not think that moving vertically in a Premiere Pro sequence/Timeline panel is so important that it should be the default action. I understand people want this--I will not argue that--but this either needs to be a) a secondary function, or b) we need to be able to customize scroll wheel actions to accommodate individual users. Either is fine with me, so long as the current behavior is not changed.

Acrobat-related error message in Word when moving around the ribbon

Win 7 x64
Acrobat X, all latest updates installed
Word 2010
Acrobat/Word add-in is installed
Recently, started getting the error Custom UI Runtime Error in Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM Addin/an error occurred while calling the callback "GetImage"
Error comes up in Word whenever I switch between tabs in the Word Ribbon. Happens even when a new, blank document is open.
Does not affect functionality as far as I can tell, and the error is easily dismissed, but it still pops up whenever I interact with the ribbon.
Ran a repair on both Word and Acrobat, did not help.
Any thoughts?

Hello,
I would like to report that I have the exact same problem/error. All updates installed, no errors in outlook or excel.
I'm running vista, office 2007, Acrobat Standard X
I had a demoversion of Acrobat XI installed before I installed X. My thought was, that that might have something to do with the error. During demotime with XI that error didn't appear.
I'm using the same workaround for now, but I actually normally would like to know if my addins produce errors.
Are there any other suggetions?
Thank You
Jens

ICal events are moving around the calender

I tried to move an event from one date to another tonight, and after that iCal started flashing that event back and forward between the original date to the new one right in front of my eyes, and another event has been replicated and moved to another date.
I have tried deleting the shifting events, and even deleted calenders that the 2 events are under, but they keep reappearing. I have also tried refreshing the com.apple.ical.plist, and have restarted the machine several times.
Could this be a virus? I'm too nervous to sync my iphone just in case.
We have Leopard with all the latest updates (OS X 10.5.8) with iCal 3.0.8

Worked it out - I was using a custom date format to give me day and date in the menu bar - reverting to one of the standard built in 'British' works - but then I lose my day in the menu bar....

Why does my banner keep on moving around the site?

i have a small domain registration and hosting business for people who dont have the time or know how to do it. the banner keeps on changing position in the browser. It should be in the centre of the 2nd part, but sometimes it isn't (Maybe about 40% of the time!!) Please see if you can find whats wrong with it? Thank you http://uk-domains.co.cc

I've only had a quick look, but the concept of centring doesn't fit too well with absolute positioning, which you seem to have mostly used. Anyone using different text sizes can cause a layout like that to come to bits fairly easily. If no-one comes back I'll take a closer look later.

Motifs in illustrator CC moving around the artboard of their own accord! Help!

I'm designing some motifs in Illustrator CC but every few minutes the design moves either left or right, entirely of its own accord. I'm using a PC, touch pad only and this is sometimes happening when I'm not touching the computer at all. Any help would b appreciated. Thank you.

I'm designing some motifs in Illustrator CC but every few minutes the design moves either left or right, entirely of its own accord. I'm using a PC, touch pad only and this is sometimes happening when I'm not touching the computer at all. Any help would b appreciated. Thank you.

Moving around the inspector window

I am able to bring up the Inspector Window via my keyboard. Does anyone know how to move about the functions within the Inspector Window with the keyboard and not the trackpad? It would save me time and my keystrokes would be more precise. Thank-you

Wade,
Thanks a lot... thats exactly what I was looking for.
Scott,
Thanks for the Tab hint.
--- Andrae

How can I search and replace the order items appear in the document?

Here is my script. I am trying to replace instances of a text pattern (Lot ^9^9^9^9^9) with an auto incremented number Lot 1, Lot 2, Lot 3, etc... I believe this script produces unexpected results becuase the search result is ordered by document construction. The first item in myfounditems is the last item added to the document (which is on the last pages of the document), the second item in myfounditems is the next to last item that was added to the document (which was moved to a middle page in the document). The net result is that instead of having the first item on the first page being Lot 1) and the item directly below it being Lot 2), my document is a hodgepodge of Lot numbers is a seeminlgly random order. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
--Clear the find/change preferences.
          set find text preferences to nothing
          set change text preferences to nothing
--Search the document for the string "lot".
          set find what of find text preferences to "Lot ^9^9^9^9^9)"
#set change to of change text preferences to "Lot " & lotnum & ")"
--Set the find options.
          set case sensitive of find change text options to false
          set include footnotes of find change text options to false
          set include hidden layers of find change text options to false
          set include locked layers for find of find change text options to false
          set include locked stories for find of find change text options to false
          set include master pages of find change text options to false
          set whole word of find change text options to false
          tell active document
                    set lotnum to 1
                    set myFoundItems to find text
                    repeat with foundItem in myFoundItems
                              set contents of object reference of foundItem to "Lot " & lotnum & ")"
                              set lotnum to lotnum + 1
                    end repeat
          end tell
end tell
display dialog ("Numbered " & (count myFoundItems) & " lots in this document. Next starting lot number is " & lotnum & ".")

You noticed the first one yourself: the Found item list seems to randomly jump around the document -- I believe you are correct in your observation it may be due to the object construction order. That tells me, by the way, something about your lot numbers that tou didn't mention: your text is not one continuous long threaded story, but it's all or partially in disconnected etxt frames. The Found list does return everything inside a single story in the correct order, but it goes over each separate story in the order they were constructed.
The only solution is to gather all of your lot numbers, *re-sort* them according to the page number they appear on (and some sort of Worst Case Scenario is when you might have more than one lot number frame per page; in that case you also need to sort by textframe, top to bottom -- yet even worse is if you also may have these textframes side by side!).
Only then you have a reliable counting order.
This isn't too bad. We can just extend the method I offered for sorting top-to-bottom/left-to-right in Re: Working around the frame selection order issue in CS 4 and make it also include page numbers:
function byPageYX(a,b) {
    var
        aP = a.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.index,
        bP = b.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.index,
        aY = a.baseline[0],
        bY = b.baseline[0],
        aX = a.horizontalOffset[1],
        bX = b.horizontalOffset[1],
        dP = aP-bP,
        dy = aY-bY,
        dx = aX-bX;
    return dP?dP:(dy?dy:dx);
myResults.sort(byPageYX);
Or something like that.
As for actually implementing the above I cannot be of any help with Applescript.
Once we're dealing with sorting I think you're much better off in Javascript anyhow.

Drawing directly in the document window

Can anybody provide sample code showing the basics of drawing directly in the document window? I'm thinking of something along the lines of the measure tool (pardon the pun).
It looks like I'm supposed to use either the Annotator Suite or the Document View Suite to "invalidate" a rectangle in the document, followed by doing the actual drawing with the ADMDrawer Suite. But the documentation in this area is pretty sparse (for example GetDocumentViewInvalidRect and SetDocumentViewInvalidRect refer to a "fudged" invalid rect without explaining what that is) and I don't see anything in the Sample Code folder that explains this feature.
Are the little text annotations ("path" "anchor") that pop up when using Smart Guides done using this method?
Thanks,
John

(Sound of crickets chirping...)
Boy, this forum is awfully dead in comparison to the InDesign SDK forum. Is no one writing Illustrator plug-ins anymore?
But hey, I'll keep posting, if only for my own amusement, about my saga of writing a plug-in.
I figured out some of the annotation stuff, but I'm still puzzled by some things.
I started by simply trying to create a tool which would carry a 100x100 box around with it when moved on the screen -- no clicking or dragging yet -- much as the symbol sprayer, for example, has a nice circle (albeit of varying size) around it. I created the tool and added it as an annotator. When it receives a kSelectorAITrackToolCursor message, it simply captures the cursor location in a global and sets the PlatformCursor. When the tool receives a kCallerAIAnnotation message, I have this code:
extern AIErr toolAnnotate( AIAnnotatorMessage *message ) {
    AIErr error = kNoErr;
    error = sView->ArtworkPointToViewPoint( message->view, &g->cursorPoint, &g->cursorPointScreen );
    g->annoBoundsScreen.top = g->cursorPointScreen.v - 50;
    g->annoBoundsScreen.bottom = g->cursorPointScreen.v + 50;
    g->annoBoundsScreen.left = g->cursorPointScreen.h - 50;
    g->annoBoundsScreen.right = g->cursorPointScreen.h + 50;
    ADMDrawerRef dr = sADMDrawer->Create(message->port, &g->annoBoundsScreen, kADMPaletteFont);
    ASRect myRect;
    myRect.top = 0;
    myRect.bottom = 100;
    myRect.left = 0;
    myRect.right = 100;
    sADMDrawer->SetDrawMode( dr, kADMXORMode );
    sADMDrawer->SetADMColor( dr, kADMBlackColor );
    sADMDrawer->DrawRect( dr, &myRect );
    sADMDrawer->Destroy( dr );
    sAnnotator->InvalAnnotationRect ( message->view, &g->annoBoundsScreen );
This (should) convert the cursor location (in artwork coordinates) to screen coordinates, set the annotation boundaries based on this location, create the drawer reference, and draw the 100x100 rectangle within this reference. Finally, it invalidates this rectangle as per the Annotation suite documentation.
I fired up the tool in Illy 10 and saw a single box created down at the 0, 0 point on the page. No box followed the cursor. Hmm. I added an sADMBasic->Beep() to the annotation code and realized what was happening -- my tool was getting an annotation message when first selected, but none when it was merely moved around the screen.
After some futzing around I discovered that if I added a call to sView->SetDocumentViewInvalidDocumentRect in the TrackToolCursor code, I got an annotate message every time the mouse was moved! I captured the previous cursor position and invalidated the rectangle 50 points on all sides from it. and tried again. Success -- partially.
At this point, the cursor could be moved around with the box following it. It suffers, however, from the following bugs:
1) The SetDocumentViewInvalidDocumentRect is in artwork coordinates and so only works at 100% or greater. If I zoom out, my little box leaves trails all over the screen. In addition, if I zoom in, the cursor stutters noticeably -- I assume because Illustrator is forcing a redraw on large portions of the document. I think I can fix both these bugs by recalculating the SetDocumentViewInvalidDocumentRect into screen coordinates. However I note that the circle of the symbol sprayer can be made huge -- as large as the screen -- and it still moves smoothly. So maybe calling sView->SetDocumentViewInvalidDocumentRect is not the way to force annotations. But I haven't been able to discover another way.
2) When the mouse moves into a palette, the square remains "hung up" at the last position where the cursor was in the document window. I think I can fix this by utilizing the Suspend and Resume notifiers and doing one last InvalAnnotationRect when I get the Suspend notification.
3) For fun I tried clicking and dragging. Bad news. If I do this, thereafter the entire Illustrator window only redraws iself in the small rectangle that was set when I created the drawer port. By chance I found that if I use another tool that annotates such as the pencil *before* I use my tool, then everything is fine (although of course the box doesn't follow the cursor around anymore because my toolMouseDrag code is empty). How is using a previous tool "fixing" my code? I don't understand this one at all.
Anyway, I suppose I could fork over a wad of cash and join the ADN and purchase a support case -- but hey, I'm just a hobbyist messing around at this point and facing some rather crappy documentation. Any tips will be much appreciated.
John

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