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Unformatting text

Mark MacKinnon — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:36:37 +0000

Update : CleanText.org – The goal is to take formatted text and render it in a way so that when it’s rendered with a nice variable-width font, it will to look very clean and properly formatted.

Often times, when copying text from an editor like Word or a Webpage, to Dreamweaver, you also copy a lot of formatting. This can often times be a nuisance, so it becomes necessary to “unformat” the text.

If it’s only a few words, a sentence, copy the content and paste to the URL bar to unformat, select anew and paste to Dreamweaver.

If you’re dealing with a lot more content, paste the text to your favorite email client and changer the format of the message to “text” or un-select “HTML”. Select anew, the content has now lost all formatting.

Flash to be available on iPhone

Mark MacKinnon — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:14:52 +0000

Adobe has revealed that Apple and Adobe are collaborating on making Flash available on the iPhone. The technical hurdles are still quite steep, and although this will not be the full version of Flash, it will certainly not be the Flash Lite. Sources: News Google

Need to rebuild a file-list in Dreamweaver ?

Mark MacKinnon — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:31:24 +0000

So you have hundreds of files in a directory and you want to build an index page with links to each one? If you’ve ever built such a page with Dreamweaver, then you know how time consuming this can be.

A simple trick is to open the directory with FireFox – providing browsing is authorized and there is no index/home file. If you’re using relative links, you can also open the local version of the directory on your hard drive.

Copy the content from the page and paste to an empty Dreamweaver page, you should now have a table based list of links. With a bit of search and replacing, you can turn the table to a list in little time.

We’ve tried this in the Windows Environment with success using Firefox and Dreamweaver 8.

The Mac OS has proven a little harder. Firefox nor Safari provide the proper interface to obtain an HTML copy of the viewed directory. This where Internet Explorer 5.2 for mac comes in handy – this is why keeping old software is always a good idea (given the fact you cannot download it anymore from Microsoft – If you deleted your old copy, try here) !
To open the directory you want to view, start by opening an image or html file in the desired directory. Remove the file name from the URL and you should get a directory listing. View source, copy, and paste in code-view in Dreamweaver : you now have an HTML table with the relative links to all the files in that directory.

Our Dreamweaver Wish List

Mark MacKinnon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:51:31 +0000

One of the functions that Adobe Dreamweaver is seriously lacking is a batch file re-naming tool that also fixes broken links. We have had several projects where hundreds of files with .html or .htm extensions had to be converted to .php, .asp, .shtml. As always, we use a file re-naming tool to do the grunt work in the OS, and then use Dreamweaver to search and replace all link extensions. This is not foolproof, can be tedious and downright nasty if your files contain external links.

So here’s hoping the next version of Adobe Dreamweaver has a batch file re-naming tool!