Sharing project fonts, colors, templates across different design vendors

Hi - I am responsible for rebranding a client and curious about supporting the work of different design agencies to work with a new visual system we have developed.
Share Adobe Templates (Mostly Indd)
Share Corporate Fonts (Available from Typekit/Adobe)
Share Color swatches
Share between different agencies (not a single agency)
Obviously they would all need to upgrade to the cloud. But they would not be purchased under the same account. (Although that could be one solution).
And links or tips would be appreciated.
- Axle

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Material for a single project spread across different locations

Dear Friends
my client is executinig trun key projects. One single project may be spread across different geographical locations. Say Project name is "PRJ001".
PRJ001 will be executed in Bombay, Hyderabad, Chennai.
There are 2 scenarios for procuring materail:
1. Since my these places are quite far away, I might procure material from a venodr near to these locations.
2. I might give PO to one single vendor to dispatch material to these different locations for project execution.
In the both the cases, how to handle material?
What will be best option? Should I create a storage location (my client stores material @ site as these projects run for years)?
I'm procurial material as Project Stock (Q).
Say Bomaby location needs 500 no. of material, Hyderabad location needs 700 no. of material, Chennai location needs 300 no. of material.
Now how do I ensure that the right material with right quantity is reaching respective project site?
In some cases, project runs in remote location. Where there won't be any connectivity/ access to system. In such cases, if the site engineer enters GR/ IR & activity confirmation in excel sheet & later on sends an e-mail with this excel sheet to the office. How can we upload it to the system so that it updates the required fields in the system?
Please give your suggestions.
I appreciate your support/suggestion .
Thanks

Hi Amaresh,
I think your Option no. 01 holds good for your requirement. You can define the corresponding Project sites in Chennai, Mumbai and other places as Storage locations. Better define Seperate storage locations for different site locations.
I think having a delivery schedule with the specific requirement quantities and the storage location should resolve your issue of handling different quantities for the same material. This you can discuss & sort it out with your MM consultant.
Hope this gives some idea.
Regards,
L.Balachandar

Is it possible to replicate groups in different designs?

I am trying to create a circuit layout template for a set of components which needs to be replicated across a lot of designs. This could be considered similar to the functionality of the 'Group replica place' and 'Copy route' functions but applied across different designs.
I have tried manually copying layouts to a new project but as soon as they are copied they do not get recognized because they are not included in the netlist. Additionally if I try to back annotate from a copied design to Multisim in order to force a netlist creation I get: 'The layout part XX has no corresponding schematic component. Select a component from the database.' and if I try to assign a component from the schematic database I get: 'There are no possible partner objects to select.'
Is there any simple way I can preserve a layout of a subcircuit and inserting it into to a different layout?

Hi,
I think the best way is to copy the schematic part that you need towards your new schematic.
But you should do this first before adding other parts to the new schematic.
this way you'll be able to keep all the refdes the same.
before taking that schematic to Ultiboard, copy the desired layout and components (and vi'as, copper areas etc) to your new layout,
then import your new netlist.
I think that should work (I've done this before on small designs.)
The only thing to check are the copper area's that are linked to specific nets, they might need to be reassigned...
Good luck!

Different font colors in landscape not possible - SERIOUSLY??

Hi Ive just been checking my portrait versions of a textbook and wow... there seems NO way to have different font colors in portrait and landscape??
Thats totally insane. I'll explain why...
IN landscape you can (and should) have full bleed photos and text on top which needs to be an approrpiate colour to stand out against the background image. You can even be a good boy and create a new style to keep things tidy. So far so good.
THEN you go into Portrait edit mode and find the text (now white) has vanished on the *COMPULSORY* (lets not forget) white background for the portrait mode. SO OK , you create a new style for that body text set it to black and carry on right? Nope. It forces the same style on the same text back in landscape which then is black <sigh> and so your're screwed again...
Conclusion? We must ONLY ever use black text EVER in Landscape and Portrait? If I'm right we have a major design inconsistency - and add to that a further inconsistency that the section templates CAN be edited in Landscape mode but 'though shalt not edit the section pages in Portrait' uhmmm.. okayyy.. why?
I'm sure I have this wrong. *Please* tell me I have this wrong.... or let me have a workaround.
P.S. has anyone else found about a dozen bugs in iBA 1.1?
P.P.S. I'm aware I can disable portrait - Dont want to thanks ;-) . Its half the books viewing options.

I hav become a familar rapoteur on these bugs (sorry design inconsistencies) on the report page - is there a list (official or unofficial) where we can see which bugs others have reported to save us pulling our hair out for hours?
I will say that for years I reported loads of bugs for Final Cut 7 etc (as Apple is short of a few bucks and needs free debugging) - and look what happened to FCP
"Final Cut-Toyz-R-Us-Pro"
Anyway, that sounds like a mini-rant. Thanks KT. Your help is legendary here

OSB 10.3.1 Sharing projects across OSB Configutrations

Hello,
I am trying to maximise code resuse by creating projects that are shared across different OSB configurations. Examples of such projects include those that have resources such as WSDLs and Schemas or XQuerys. I tried to do this using the following steps:
1. I created a workspace
2. I created an OSB configuration (Ocfg1) in that workspace
3. I created a project (Common) that I wanted to share in that OSB Configuration
The first challenge is right here. A project seems to be tied to a configuration. However, if you inspect the project contents there is no reference to the OSB configuration that it is contained within. The association is defined in a file in the OSB configuration project.
4. I created a second OSB Configuration project (Ocfg2) and edited the file in this configuration project (as mentioned above) to add a reference to the shared project (Common).
This second OSB configuration did not show that the shared project was part of it even after refreshes of the view. After restarting Workshop, I found that the shared project was now in the second OSB Configuration project (Ocfg2), but was deleted from the first (Ocfg1).
Thus within a workspace in Workshop, an OSB project can only be added to a single OSB Configuration project it seems. I could therefore create two workspaces, but then I would need to copy the shared project which is exactly what I wanted to avoid.
This appears to be a severe restriction of Workshop for OSB 10R3.1. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Adil.

I know this thread is a little old, but the same issue still applies in OEPE 11.1.1.7 and OSB 11.1.1.5. The workaround I implemented was:
1) Put all of my OSB projects in a folder (for easy version-controlling)
CommonArtifacts
MyProject1
MyProject2
2) Create an OSB Configuration Project for each Project. So now that folder looks like:
CommonArtifacts
MyProject1
MyProject2
OSB Configuration - MyProject1
OSB Configuration - MyProject2
3) Create 2 workspaces in OEPE
workspace_MyProject1
workspace_MyProject2
4) Switch to workspace_MyProject1
Import Eclipse Projects:
- CommonArtifacts
- MyProject1
- OSB Configuration - MyProject1
5) Drag CommonArtifacts and MyProject1 into the OSBConfguration - MyProject1 (while in OSB Perspective)
6) Switch to workspace_MyProject2
Repeat the import & drag steps
The caveat to this is that you can only work on 1 "MyProject#" at a time and you need to switch between Eclipse/OEPE workspaces to go back and forth. But the underlying assets within those projects are still in a single location on the file system.
Cheers,
Michael

How to make the font color of Tabs in LinkBar different

I'm using LinkBar with ViewStack. I want to make font color of one of the tabs different from rest of the tabs. Is it possible?
I checked the LinkBar's API and found that the color related attributes are for the all Tabs. There is no way to just set
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I'm using LinkBar with ViewStack. I want to make font color of one of the tabs different from rest of the tabs. Is it possible?
I checked the LinkBar's API and found that the color related attributes are for the all Tabs. There is no way to just set
the colors for only one specific Tab. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Can I change different background and font color on each records?

Hi,
I had a Data_Block which contains some records, I had a field name 'currency' which contains value such as (HKD, JPY, CNY, CND, USD etc..)
Let there there are 5 Records contain in that Data_Block and I wanted to change the background and font color depend on the Currency value.
I were using Set_Item_Property and change the Visual_Attributes that I had define. Well I guess that doesn't work since uisng the Set_Item_Property
it will actually getting the last value and use that last value and changed to all the same color to that.
I wonder is there a way to do that in Oracle you can change the field different color?
Thanks
David Willis

Thanks You so much.
Actually I were trying to look for that function at the User Manual but I couldn't find it because I remembered I had seem it some where.
I guess I am looking at the Form4.5 user manual instead of the Oracle 9i Forms Developer.
Thanks
David

Different font colors in the same text area.

i need to have a text area where i can setText with different colors.
eg red if an error message, rest to be black.
the only way to set text color i know is using setforegound color which will do the only documents, but i need to set font color per string.
how?

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Sharing across different subnets

I have successfully connected a remote PC to my WRV54G using QuickVPN. That remote PC can ping computers across the VPN and those computers can likewise ping the remote PC. I have even successfully connected with Remote Desktop from that remote PC and controlled a computer across the VPN.
I can not, however, access shared resources on the computers across the VPN from the remote PC. (For the sake of discussion, assume that no firewalls exist in my scenario.) The remote PC has a local IP address of 192.168.1.4 and the computers behind the VPN have a local subnet of 10.109.220.0. I attempted to use the "run" command in windows and typed "//10.109.220.100/" from the remote PC to open the shared resources on the computer with that address. This did not work; I only received an error message. I didn't expect to be able to "see" computers across the VPN since the subnets are different, but I did expect to be able to access shared resources if I knew the IP addresses beforehand.
Can anyone help me?

Is the remote computer in the same Workgroup as the local computer? It might help if they are.

How do I replace font colors across the whole document?

So I know how to change a certain font across the whole document.
I can replace let's say, Times New Roman with Arial throughout the whole document.
However, what if I want to replace a font color?
For example, I want to change the black 0,0,0,0 with black 40,30,30,100 across the whole document, instead of searching one by one and replacing the existing color.
I'm using CS5 on PC

As Peter says, it is better to do with paragraph styles. The above shows where.
In general, you should be using p. styles with little or not local formatting (depends on use). And for local formatting that is repetitive, character styles should be used.
Take care, Mike

How can I type in a different font color in existing document without the color changing back to black?

I am editting a document and want to type in red. However, the font color keeps changing back to black once I am done with the section, or when I scroll down.
I do not want to use "comment" function.
Could anyone tell me how to set a font color without changing?
Thank you

When you place the cursor in a block of text, it adopts the style attributes of the surrounding text; most of the time, for most users, this is the desired behavior.
It sounds like you want to use change tracking, which displays your additions to the text in a contrasting color, until you choose to accept (or reject) the changes. It might be worth looking into that.
If, as I read your question, you want to be able to place the cursor into various places in the text and type text that is really styled in a different color, I can think of two options that might help a little with that.
You can set a Character Style for the alternate color, and apply that after inserting the cursor, before typing. If you want, the Character Style can be assigned a keyboard shortcut.
You could also copy a single character with the desired font color to the clipboard and then after inserting the cursor, Paste and Delete (⌘V,⌫), which will allow you to continue to type in your preferred color. Of course, this only works if you don't need the clipboard for anything else.

How to make menu-item of current page appear in a different font color?

Hi,
My menu-bar works just fine. Hovering the links I get the text to take display the desired color. Now I want the menu-item of the selected page to show a third color.
With live-code enabled in Dreamweaver CS6, I can see the following code being generated by the Dynamic menu:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/CatalystScripts/Java_DynMenusSelectedCSS.js"></script><div id="cat_549633_divs"><ul id="nav_549633"><li class="selected"><a href="/home.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="/leistungen.html">Leistungen</a></li><li><a href="/uhrenservice.html">Uhrenservice</a></li><li><a href="/versteigerungen.html">Versteigerungen</a></li><li><a href="/diamanten.html">Diamanten</a></li><li><a href="/ueber_uns.html">Über uns</a></li><li><a href="/kontakt.html">Kontakt</a></li></ul></div><script type="text/javascript">catSetSelectedCSSItem('nav_549633');</script>
The class .selected is being created in the first list-item (home) as this is the current page.
And here is my CSS:
#nav_549633 {
          float: right;
          list-style-type: none;
          padding-top: 5px;
#nav_549633 li {
          float: left;
          text-align: left;
#nav_549633 li a {
          color:white;
          text-decoration: none;
          margin: 0 27px 0 0;
          font-size: 13px;
          text-transform: uppercase;
#nav_549633 li a:hover {
          color: yellow;
.selected {
          color: green;
The font color green does not appear. It is still white.
In order to see if the class is "working" I tried some other attributes, that DO work!
.selected {
color: green;
padding: 20px
background-color: blue;
In this case, the item appears as a blue box with 20px-padding, just as expected - but the font-color is still white.
Can anyone help me?
Regards,
Herman

Hi Mario,
Here's the link to my site:
http://grootaartseuronics.businesscatalyst.com/index.html
I have found a solution myself for 2 of the 3 questions i had:
I have deleted/changed this div: #nav_1371057 li li
And created a few new ones:
#nav_1371057 li li a, #nav_1371057 li li a:visited (To control the link en visited link colors in the sub-menu other than the root-menu)
#nav_1371057 li li a:hover (to control the hover in the sub-menu other than the root-menu if nessesary)
#nav_1371057 li li.selected a (to control the selected link and let the link change color or bolder like in my case)
Here are the CSS styles I used:
#nav_1371057 li li.selected a { /*Dit veranderd de dikte (bold) van de geselecteerde link in het submenu, dus de pagina waar je bent*/
font-weight:bolder;
#nav_1371057 li li a, #nav_1371057 li li a:visited{
background: #006;
color:#ffffff;
#nav_1371057 li li a:hover{
background: #999;
color:#ffffff;
Only thing i can't figure out is how I can change/control the color of the arrow which is black now. And i want to make it blue.
Thanks,
Frank

Why does my email template appear differently in various email programs?

I have created a CSS-style based email template using Dreamweaver CS6. The template looks great within Dreamweaver, on Internet Explorer and in Outlook 2003. However, when viewed in Outlook 2010, Hotmail and Gmail, the template is distorted. If I set my containers using pixel size, why would it be different when viewed in other email programs?
Here is my code:
<style type="text/css">
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width: 795px;
height: 995px;
border: medium solid #008478;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
margin: 0 auto;
.prodboxleft {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
background-color: #76c6be;
width: 370px;
float: left;
height: 164px;
border: medium dashed #008478;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-left: 12px;
.prodboxright {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
background-color: #76c6be;
width: 370px;
float: right;
height: 164px;
border: medium dashed #008478;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-right: 12px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
.clearing {
clear:both;
display:block;
visibility:hidden;
.pageborder .prodboxleft img {
padding: 8px;
.pageborder .prodboxright a img {
padding: 8px;
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If email marketing is new to you, the below links are a good starting point for how to go about getting a good-looking and consistent design.
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http://24ways.org/2009/rock-solid-html-emails/
http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
The boilerplate is good for reference but in my opinion is overkill for most email campaigns. It does a good job of highlighting why they do certain things though.
Rik

Shared Project Workflow Problem: Hitting a Wall with Markers

Hi there,
Apologies in advance for the long note. We're using Adobe CC to edit and finish commercials and are having a significant issue regarding shared project workflow. First, some context:
We often edit projects remotely. When this happens, assistants and other editors who remain in LA will have access to the media on our SAN while the editor and assistant traveling out of town will have their own copy of the media. I know Adobe Anywhere would solve any issue relating to two identical sets of media in use in different cities, but we're a small shop and the hardware and software expense don't make sense for us at this time. Please do not respond to anything mentioned from here on by stating we should just get Adobe Anywhere. Thanks.
What will regularly happen is that the remote editor and assistant will need work done on the project here in LA while they're in session with the clients. Sometimes this work involves marking up clips with comment markers so the editor can more easily locate a specific moment. Here's where the problem arises.
Unlike FCP and Avid, Premiere handles markers within the clip's metadata. So, if I have two separate projects linking to separate but identical instances of media, one of those media instances gets updated with new markers, there is currently no way to get those markers to the other project without also shuttling the new marked-up media. This is not possible when a remote editor needs dailies marked up in a couple hours and is working across the country or abroad.
But let's assume for the sake of argument that it is possible and we apply this workflow. Let's also assume that in the time it takes the local assistant to mark up the clips for the remote editor, the editor has added a couple markers of his own, which is reasonable and happens all the time. Now when the editor links to the newly marked up clips he's received via shipment, he'll wipe out all the markers he's made on his own since giving the order to mark up the footage. That is a significant inconvenience, especially with clients in the room asking stuff like "can we look at the take where the guy says 'good' instead of 'great'?"
So what happens if we just have repeating sets of media, so that every time the clips markers get updated, the editor actually imports those clips, even though the picture and audio data in those clips is completely redundant to what's already in the project. The issues with this are, as I can see it, 1) increasing the amount complexity within the project so that you'd have to scan many bins of dailies to look for a single marker, 2) increasing by orders of magnitude the amount of storage space needed, 3) even if problems 1 and 2 are handled, if you have to go to finish with multiple versions of a cut, and those versions reference separate instances of the same clip from different bins, Premiere's dupe frame detection will not work and you'll need to spend a lot of extra time locating duplicate clips manually before sending your EDL or XML off to final color grading.
At this point, I think it's necessary to interject something: we're talking about markers here. Why is this such a problem? FCP and Avid have no such issues simply by making markers - even clip markers - part of the project metadata. From what I understand, Adobe has chosen to do things differently because of dynamic link, so that After Effects and Prelude, for example, could add markers to a clip and those markers would ripple across all instances of that clip in the different applications. It's a great feature which we take advantage of here from time to time.
So what's the solution?
My workaround in CS6, which does not solve the issue of needing to merge clip markers so that an editor's markers and an assistant's markers can be applied to a single piece of media, was to turn off "write XMP ID to Files on Import." This would generate an XMP sidecar file which could be easily passed along with a project file to the remote editor, who could then overwrite his local XMP sidecars with the new ones containing the new marker info.
However, in Premiere CC that is no longer possible. It appears that if Premiere CC can access the XMP ID on a file, it will not generate a sidecar regardless of what you have set in your media preferences. We use ProRes Proxy as our dailies format (again, please no comments on this, it is not up for debate at this time) and Premiere can get to the XMP ID within the files and will not, no matter what it seems, generate an XMP sidecar.
We could change the company workflow to use DNxHD 36 instead of ProRes Proxy, which would give us XMP sidecars, but that would not solve the issue of needing to merge marker lists between projects non-destructively.
The best solution I can think of would be to have a script or some kind or built-in feature which would allow for the batch export, import and merging of marker lists. This way Adobe could keep its current clip-metadata-based marker workflow while giving professional users needing more flexible marker behavior the ability to have assistants non-destructively modify clip markers without necessitating the creation of extra media or project complexity.
I would really love some input on this and ideas from the pro community out there who has experience with shared project workflows - especially projects being shared remotely. There's not a lot of info out there about this and it would be great to hear what others are doing.
Thanks a million for sticking with this, if you've made it this far.
Best,
Jon

Thanks Jim,
I understand that Adobe Anywhere solves this, but there should be this fairly basic functionality (which exists in Avid and FCP) in a non-enterprise edition of the software. I have submitted a couple different feature requests about this, going back to CS5, so hopefully enough people make similar requests for a fix to be implemented. Adobe Anywhere is really not a solution for our small shop as currently configured/priced, especially when we can have editors working remotely with very affordable USB 3 drives. The only hangup is the markers, which just isn't worth a 5 figure fix. As such it's hard to consider the problem solved for either us or any small shop or post crew.
Best,
Jon

Templates look different in FCE HD than in LT

I'm starting to use templates in LT in a project I'm working on to jazz it up a little.
I use 2 LT stock templates, modify the the background colors, adjust some font sizes, add a drop shadow here & there, do a little extrusion on some of the LT fonts, and it looks great when I save and render it in LT.
I play back the LT render file in LT and it looks just like I want it.
After I import the render file into FCE HD (3.0), place it on the time line, render it, and then finally get to see what it looks like, some of the font colors are wrong and there appears to be some aliasing happening on the fonts themselves making the whole thing look second rate - not sharp and crisp like it was in LT.
Is it a no no to extrude fonts?
I also get aliasing on the stock non-animated fonts when I change their color. In one case from black to a dark green . In this case I also put a .5 px stroke around the font to help with contrast against the background.
Could the .5 px stroke be aliasing?
The dark green also comnes out looking grungy and frazzeled.
Any help would be appreciated. This has happend in several templates now.
Ken

I have never tried importing the .ifr file from LT because I want to see what it looks like before it goes to FCE.< </div>
You get used to estimating timing and anticipating your results with experience.
Tom said that basically it doesn't play well in the time line because it gets compressed by a factor of 5 when it goes to DV AND that even though I'm using a 19" Apple Studio Display, that the display is not showing it like it would play from a DVD to a TV. < </div>
Tom Wolsky knows all this stuff inside and out.
And interlacing gets in the way or something like that, and yeah I'm so newbee my wings are still tired just getting to this hive.< </div>
We were all new at this at one time or another. Welcome tot he family.
But this brings up another question. Since exporting the sequence to a QT self-contained movie and burning it on a DVD means that it gets even further compressed into mpeg, how is that the LT scenes actually display much better on a TV (which is way larger) than in the canvas? Is that where the interlacing thing comes in? < </div>
Umm, no.
I have never really understood why video has 2 images in one frame when film gets buy just fine with one. Can you point me in the right direction to learn about that?< </div>
Different universes of time. But when film gets transferred to vidoe, those single frames get interlaced and interleaved with a process known as 3-2 Pulldown. That will give you a headache because there are many different types of pulldown.
Anyhow, why buy a video monitor if it's all going to sort itself out in the bake and shake process going to DVD? < </div>
That's a stylistic question you will answer for yourself in a few months.
And if one really should have a "video monitor" are there any decent ones that aren't megabucks? My understanding is that it's going to look different on the TV any how, correct? < </div>
It's not that easy, TV and video are different, too.
So does this mean that when we create in LiveType, we are creating a NON-Interlaced image that looks so sharp & clear on the non-interalced computer screen? And that the interlacing gets put in during the rendering process in FCE? And that interlacing makes the LiveTyp image look like it's got ants in its pants (fuzzy)on the computer screen? < </div>
There's an option in your prject settings to use NONE, LOWER or UPPER fileds for your movie. Set it to LOWER. If you use NONE< you will get a progressive render.
<div class="jive-quote">Do I have it or do I have to go back to school?< </div>
It might help but we do that every day around here. Don't sweat the small stuff but, now that you have some fundamental grounding in video basics, you could benefit dramatically from reading the LT manual and doing the tutorials one more time. They'll make some sense this time around.
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