Outlining Text in Adobe Acrobat X (or Higher)

Thanks to Best Font Forward for this tutorial: Outlining Text in Adobe Acrobat X (or Higher) This article describes how to outline text in Adobe Acrobat X. An older article has information about outlining text in Acrobat versions 7, 8, and 9. 16 April 2013: It looks like Adobe broke this feature with an update to Acrobat. Fortunately, a trick that worked in prior versions still works, but it adds a couple of small steps to the procedure....

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A warning about videogames and your kids

I originally researched and wrote this article on the dangers of videogames and online gaming / social media for my child's school to distribute. I was concerned about some of the language and behaviour I was seeing as a result of gaming (online and offline), and social media use at such young ages. I've never allowed my son to use social media, and from the moment I became aware of the bullying and abuse that was happening he has been banned from online play indefinitely.  Unfortunately, the school wouldn't distribute this document as it...

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Getting Illustrator vectors in to Mac Powerpoint and keeping them editable

UPDATED 31/07/17 for Office Mac 2016.  Original method from Kerry Clark in this article. How to Get Illustrator Vectors Into Mac PowerPoint I always run into this problem. Someone wants a map or design in Microsoft PowerPoint®. But it has to be editable. No problem if I build it in PowerPoint. But, I don't work that way. It's way harder than it needs to be. I prefer to work in a program that's built for vector-based image building. Go ahead and build your file in Illustrator. Export your art as an EMF (enhanced metafile). If you...

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