Archive for the 'Adobe' Category

Apr 09 2008

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier vulnerability

Published by Lord TCT under Adobe, Security

Adobe has issued a security advisory dated 8th of April 2008 for Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and all versions below. The security flaw could allow remote code execution on compromised systems.

This vulnerability affects Adobe Flash Players on ALL platforms. Users are reminded to update the affected software immediately by visiting Adobe’s website.

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Mar 27 2008

PS Tips #1 - Neutral Density Filter

Published by Lord TCT under Photoshop

Photography enthusiast should know that Neutral Density (ND) photographic filters are expensive and limits creativity. But luckily, there is always your digital darkroom - Adobe Photoshop.

Neutral Density filter is normally used to increase contrast of outdoor photography by reducing light transmission to the camera lens. One of the more commonly used ND filter is the graduated ND filter, whereby the light blocking characteristic of the filter decreases vertically.

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Mar 20 2008

Illustrator CS3 Crashes when saving

Published by Lord TCT under Adobe, Windows

Problem: Adobe Illustrator CS3 crashes whenever you try to save a document in its default format.
Cause: The print spooler service is not started.
Solution: Start the print spooler via services.msc or this command:

net start spooler

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Mar 20 2008

Acrobat 8 Professional + Office 2007 + Vista/UAC = Hell

Published by Lord TCT under Adobe, Windows

Spare your sanity. If you don want this to happen, never ever install Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on a Windows Vista system with UAC enabled and Microsoft Office 2007 installed:

No amount of reinstalling solved the problem. You could either disable UAC, which leaves a big security hole in your system because almost everything will be running with administrator level permission, or you could reinstall Windows. I ended up reinstalling Windows because this Adobe piece of wondrous shit is making me go crazy.

IMHO, Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional just suck! It’s a freaking bloatware that takes up several gigabytes of your hard disk space installing nonsense and bloated libraries. The best thing to do is to get rid of that bloated crap. Here are your options:

  1. Use Microsoft XPS - Comes installed with Windows Vista and .Net Framework 3.5
  2. Can’t live without PDF? Use the open source PDF Creator. It creates PDFs and its free!
  3. Use Foxit PDF reader - It reads PDF, its free and its only 2.2MB

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