[FM Discuss] Effective Use of Adobe Software

[Julian Oliver]

..on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:40:18AM -0800, xtine wrote:
> Ha, most definitely true about the code.
>
> There must be a way to fake the header info - maybe just open the files 
> after the fact in Photoshop (or wherever), make some kind of minor change 
> and save it? Do they actually record key strokes or just the fact that 
> the thing was at one point opened in an Adobe program and some change was 
> made?

using an editor that can edit binary files it would be easy to fake it the
header, yep. eg: 

	vim -b /path/to/a/binary/file

watermarking is a different thing though!

chars,

julian

>
>
> On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Julian Oliver wrote:
>
>> ..on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:08:21AM -0800, xtine wrote:
>>> Hi Karl,
>>>
>>> Thanks for writing good things about Digital Foundations. I wish we
>>> wrote it ten years ago, too, ha.
>>>
>>> I'm just wondering, how would Adobe know if you created the work with
>>> over 50% of the Adobe tools?
>>
>> for any images, movies and PDF's they can look for water-marks and  
>> information
>> in the header of the files. with a website they can simply look at the 
>> HTML and
>> see that it's awful, bloated, buggy and doesn't pass the W3C standard 
>> ;)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> julian
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Alchemy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> I just wanted to firstly give a general *pat on the back* to the FM
>>>> team.
>>>> Been following the goings on and everyone is doing really well  
>>>> lately.
>>>> The Digital Foundations book looks great, wish it was around 10  
>>>> years
>>>> ago...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reminded me of this competition I saw Adobe running: http://adaaentry.com/prizes.php
>>>>
>>>> The fine print reads:
>>>> " you need to prepare digital files of work created primarily (over
>>>> 50%) with Adobe tools "
>>>>
>>>> This is quite an amusing FAQ from the site:
>>>> 21. I used non-Adobe web design software for my entry in the  
>>>> Browser-
>>>> Based Design category, but I used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
>>>> software for my images. Is this OK?
>>>> No. This is not an effective use of Adobe software for this contest.
>>>> Your website should be created with Adobe Dreamweaver® or Adobe  
>>>> Flash
>>>> with auxiliary use of Photoshop and Illustrator to qualify as an  
>>>> entry
>>>> in this category.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like coding things by hand won't cut it!
>>>> Here's for more EFFECTIVE uses of Adobe tools!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Keep up the good work.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>> Karl D.D. Willis
>>>>
>>>> Alchemy
>>>> An open drawing project
>>>> http://al.chemy.org
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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