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Web fonts for non-Roman languages

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:11:51 GMT

The Add Web Fonts dialog in Muse makes it easy for me to find fonts for English and other languages that use the Roman writing system. I need to find fonts for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Thai, and possibly other systems too.

Is there a way to search for such fonts, and to preview fonts in the language in which they will be used?

Output as H.264 - blurry | default folder

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:47:15 GMT

I am an occasional user of Premiere CS4 on Mac OS 10.6.8, with no in-depth knowledge of the technical aspects of video export. In the past, I have used the default settings with one difference (see below) to achieve good results. In my current project, which uses exactly the same workflow as previous ones, I encounter 2 difficulties:

The output is blurry
AME insists on using the same folder for saving the output files as for the previous project. I have over 500 files to save, and I don't want to have to select the right folder manually each time.

Here's a screenshot comparing the source and the output, and showing the settings:

http://dev.lexogram.com/forum/h264Export.jpg

The only change from the standard H.264 format is the dimensions: 320 x 240 pixels. This has not caused blurriness in previous projects.

To avoid black lines around the output, I need to choose 360 x 245 pixels as the source area (or a similar ratio). Why is that? Does this give a clue as to what the problem is?

Many thanks in advance for insights into how to solve these two problems.

James

Soundbooth CS3: Audio driver fails to load on MacBook

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:22:21 GMT

On both my MacBooks (white and one-piece aluminium), I get the following alert when I launch Soundbooth CS3:

The audio driver has either failed to load or the device is no longer
connected. Please re-load the driver or connect the device and try again.
[ OK ]

I am also unable to record any sound. If I click OK in the above alert, then click on the red record button at the bottom of the window, I get a dialog which allows me to choose input:

* System Default Input
* Built-in input
* Built-in microphone

Regardless of which of these I select, the red record button has no effect.

I do not have this problem on an older iMac.

A search for the key words in the alert on Adobe's support system comes up blank.

Has anyone else encountered this, and has anyone been able to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Overhauling the Documentation for Director

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:31:58 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Please excuse this cross-post. You can also find it on the Direct-L mailing list and on the Director Online Forum. I will post a summary of answers to each of these places.

Rajnish Bharti, Product Manager for Director and Shockwave, asked me last week for my input on how best to overhaul the documentation for Director. In particular, he asked me to give him an idea of what the Table of Contents should look like.

You can find my first draft of the Table of Contents here:

http://www.openspark.com/adobe/Director_Documentation_01.zip

While preparing this, I contacted a number of Director teachers and trainers, talked to some newcomers to Director, consulted dozens of Director books (mostly from the Macromedia days) and pored over the various reincarnations of Director's own help.

Examples
Lots of real-life examples that you can copy and paste and
know that they will work
Images
Clear and concise screen shots that capture the essence of
a concept at a glance
Fast and Powerful Searching
Beginners don't know which menu item or scripting term they
are looking for. The search engine should help users to home
in from a layman's expression to the appropriate documentation
article. Articles should be intelligently cross-referenced.

I have suggested dividing the documentation into three sections:

1. Director Step by Step

A series of short hands-on tutorials which introduce all the
commonly-used features of Director in the context of simple
movies. Beginners can start here.

This section imagines that you have never used Director or
studied its documentation before. You select a project that
is similar to the one you are planning, and the documentation
shows you how to achieve your goal using Director.

Hyperlinks lead you to more in-depth entries in the Feature
Guide on how a feature works, or to the appropriate entry in
the Scripting Dictionary.

2. Feature Guide

This section will give detailed explanations of each feature,
category by category. It will be divided into three main
chapters:

The Workspace
Working with the various windows and menus

The Raw Materials
Understanding sprites, members, the various media types
and data types

The Process
Designing your project, animating sprites, using scripts

and publishing your work.

This section will give you a categorized view of what Director
does. It imagines that you start with a "How do I..." type of
question, and guides you to the appropriate part of the
User Interface or the correct scripting terms to use.

It will contain links both to the Step by Step tutorials and
to the entries in the Lingo Dictionary.

3. Alphabetical Scripting Dictionary

I have abandoned the idea of having the Dictionary divided
into categories. I believe it is much easier to find an
entry without having to wonder whether it is a keyword, a
method or an operator. If you don't know what entry you
should be looking for, the Feature Guide will help you. If
you do know the word you are looking for, then you only
need to know the alphabet.

Each entry in the Scripting Dictionary should link back to
the articles in the Feature Guide which refer to it, and to
each of the tutorials in the Step by Step section which use
the term.

I also suggest (Section 4) implementing a much more powerful Search engine than the D11.5 browser-based help currently features, but that is not really a part of the Table of Contents.

The document that I have posted at...

http://www.openspark.com/adobe/Director_Documentation_01.zip

... is by no means definitive, but it is at a point where I am ready to share it, to check if my general approach is acceptable.

I have not gone into much greater detail in some areas than in others, so past the 4th level, you may find certain areas are still vague. You may have better ideas for the Step by Step tutorial movies than the ones I have included.

Red text indicates new content.

I welcome feedback from all members on the community, both in terms of the content and the structure.

Once we have a comprehensive list of all the topics to cover and a consensus on the structure, then we will have to work out the most cost-effective way of generating the actual content.

Let me know what you think,

James