Tutorial

No thanks to Adobe, even after numerous complaints going all the way back to Creative Suite 1, if you have a bad font on your system, you may have issues saving as an .ai in Illustrator. You’ll get the dreaded “an unknown error has occured”. If you disable PDF compatibility, it will save, but that’s not good enough! You may also have a problem in Photoshop, where whenever you try and type on the canvas, it says an unknown error has occured in the font rendering engine or something to that effect....

Recently we had to do some work in Arabic for a client of ours. We had never used Arabic in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator before. So when the client asked “you can do Arabic” the response was “oh yeah of course” without giving it a second thought. Windows supports Arabic, so in turn Adobe will right? Wrong. Adobe does not support Right to left languages like Hebrew or Arabic. Instead you must purchase the separate “Middle Eastern” version of Creative Suite, Photoshop or Illustrator....

Ever wanted to install a new theme to your TRAC installation? Often we’ll want our development environments to look a little different from every other trac site on the Internet. We’d never tried to change the theme before, so decided to write a small tutorial on how it’s done for our archiving purposes, and for anyone else that wants to change their TRAC theme. We’re using Ubuntu Linux, and this tutorial assume you’ve already installed TRAC on a global basis to your development server....

We recently had to setup Apache, Subversion and Trac all within a virtual hosting environment for one of our Clients to be able to develop easily and effictively among team members. They wanted to use multiple domain names for separate projects. Made sense to us, so we started looking for instructions on setting this up. We wanted to setup LigHTTPD, however it’s not nearly as easy because of no svn-dav module available, so we stuck with Apache 2 for now....

One of our clients recently had a question about his system using FreePBX 2.5.1 and Asterisk 1.4 regarding using specific lines to reach staff. He runs a support queue for his company. During the day he has a regular IVR with Call queues enabled to handle customer calls and direct them to the appropriate staff member to deal with customer inquiries etc. After hours the menu functions the same way, however there are less staff to answer the phones so mainly the emergency extension is the only one being monitored, for – well, emergencies!...