Recently I’ve had to do a lot of PDF work, editing a resume I downloaded from LinkedIn, signing tax forms digitally and editing a friend’s portfolio. One thing that keeps coming up is ordering and editing objects like blocks of text or images. If you try to use your cursor to move this stuff around […]
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I have a love hate relationship with Adobe PDF documents. They can be very convenient, small on size and secure but they are also tough to edit. On a fairly regular basis I am sent non disclosure agreements, rent notices, tax forms and other secure professional or legal files that are saved in .pdf format […]
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PDF’s are great aren’t they? The formatting is always nice, they do great on the web and have lots of protection options. The only hard part is editing them! Trying to change the text on a pre-created PDF, like the ones you can download of your profile on LinkedIn or ones that might require a […]
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WordPress does a great job facilitating interaction and feedback on blogs and websites. Most themes have built in comment fields for both posts and pages. If your theme doesn’t, here’s a quick tutorial on how to add them yourself. But just because you can enable comments doesn’t mean that you should. Sometimes disabling comments and […]
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WordPress 3.1 saw a few changes in the way that certain menus and options are displayed in posts and pages. Former versions of WordPress simply included an excerpt field below the title and body areas of posts and pages by default but in 3.1 it disappeared! Excerpts aren’t something everyone needs or uses but for […]
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WordPress 3.1 saw a change in the way that custom fields are displayed in posts and pages. Former versions of WordPress simply included this field below the title and body areas of posts and pages by default but with 3.1 they disappeared! At first I was concerned that the new version of WordPress simply didn’t […]
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I’ve been working on a WordPress site recently that started at one URL and then needed to be changed. Let’s pretend the site currently lives at oldurl.com and now it’s going to become newurl.com. The hosting and database will all remain the same, I’m just changing which URL is associated with the website. For old […]
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