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Copying Assets To Other Sites

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Here’s an older article from the previous incarnation of the Ten Ton website that a few readers have been looking for. Enjoy!

If you have content in one site that you’d like to use in another site that you’ve defined in Dreamweaver, you could certainly copy your files to the second site’s local root folder on your hard drive. However, there’s a much easier way to do this is directly from the Assets panel itself.

Here’s how to copy assets to other sites:

  1. In the Asset panel, open the category that contains your asset, then select it.
  2. From the Asset panel’s Option menu, choose Copy to Site, then select the site you’d like to copy the asset to in the sub-menu.

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25 Supa-Killah Acrobat Secrets, Part Three!

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Alrighty, welcome to the third and final part of our look at 25 cool Acrobat features. Hopefully you enjoyed the first two parts. This time around, you’ll find out about adjusting page numbering, using Acrobat’s commenting tools, security, and if ya make it all the way to the end, ya might find yourself a wee Acrobat bonus! So put down the phone and check it out!

Secret #17: Mark It Up With Watermarks!

Acrobat's watermarksDid ya know you could stamp good ‘ol fashioned watermarks right across the pages in your PDFs? Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of co-workers like FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY, DO NOT COPY, or my personal favorite, (more…)

25 Supa-Killah Acrobat Secrets, Part Two!

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Welcome to Part 2 of our look at 25 cool Acrobat features. I hope you enjoyed the first part, and I’m sure you’re gonna love this installment, too. Here you’ll find out about some cool navigation tricks, how to manage mulitple PDF’s, and how to use audio and video in Acrobat. And for all you traditional print designers, I’m gonna finish off with two must-know Acrobat commands that’ll make your pre-press life a breeze. So let’s get to it!

Secret #9: Articles: Navigatin’ Complex Documents With Ease!

Acrobat's Article toolArticles—you know in newspapers it’ll say “story continued on A15,” or something like that, right? Then you have to flip until you get to the right page. Well, articles in Acrobat’ll let you simply click to jump to continue reading—it’s yet another way to nagivate through a PDF, and (more…)

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