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Noel Carboni
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April 8, 2011
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Why no underlining or font choice?

  • April 8, 2011
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In my apparent new tradition of bringing up a new problem each day, I suppose I'll ask these questions, which have been bothering me for a while...

1.  I can underline text while I'm editing.  In fact, this sentence is underlined.  Why doesn't it retain the underline after one hits [ Post Message ]?

2.  Just above where we type there are boxes for Font family and font size.  And sure enough one can change font size and face here in the editor (e.g., this sentence).  But again, it doesn't post...  Why?

I suppose I should be thankful that Bolding and italics DO work, even together.

-Noel

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    Correct answer Phillip M Jones

    PjonesCET wrote:

    . And it appears there is no one smart enough at Adobe of Jive to fix the problems. .

    that's really insulting. there's a big difference between the people who know the problems and struggle here anyway, with the limitations of this cr*p  forum, and the empty suits and bean counters who decide not to fix or change to something worthwhile.

    you just insulted every hard working, brilliant adobe employee and volunteer who only WISH they were given the opportunity to apply what they know to return this place to the vibrant community it once was. good job.

    sometimes you should maybe stop talking about one sentence before you feel like you should.


    My appologies If I stepped on some toes. But there has been one update since this Jive software came to being. And yet  almost each week a new bug has been introduced. or on or more features has been taken away. All in the name of security. How expensive is it to add Spam Seive. Or even Baracuda Firewall Security.

    Yes the Majority of software employees in the trenches are good, mean well. No one at the top  or even further down the chain, adobe cares about support. if so they would be fighting tooth and nail to get these forums fixed. Instead of sitting around wringing their hands, I can't do nothin, I can't do nothin, my hands are tied woes is me, woes, is me.

    Do you realize these forums and supprt in general has sunk to a Level lower than Intuit's? Intuit was the worst company on the planet for Mac support for their software. Adobe in my opinion now is lower.

    Someone needs to get of their backside and do something.

    If it can be done some of the volunteers with the bucks and the network space should start their own independent Support Forums., and leave this junk behind.

    Heck I can't even give a decent answer on Acroabt forum most times. the reply window takes a minimum of a minute some time two minutes or more to come up. Sometimes in trying to find the website, it times out several times. Often I have to go back mark my email notice as unread and go to other emails then come back.

    I've tried Safari, SeaMonkey, FireFox, Camino, Opera, OmniWeb, iCab, and Chrome. all with the same experience So it no browser specific.

    I just bought CS5 Web Premium, if it breaks I expect not to get any decent help from adobe should things break. At this point I couldn't rely on them to build a Dog house. If I had good sense I would leave these forums. but my wanting to people is outweighing my good sense.

    4 replies

    Tai_Lao
    Inspiring
    April 9, 2011

    Another quick test:

    Does underline work here?

    What about strike through?

    Claudio González
    Legend
    April 9, 2011

    Tai, there is a special forum for testing purposes in here:

    http://forums.adobe.com/community/general/forum_comments/testing?view=discussions

    There are some who don't like to see any testing performed in this forum...

    Tai_Lao
    Inspiring
    April 9, 2011

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    Claudio González
    Legend
    April 8, 2011

    Noel Carboni wrote:

    ...

    I suppose I should be thankful that Bolding and italics DO work, even together.

    -Noel

    Yes, you should. For as long as they are not made inactive for security reasons, while keeping them in the menu...

    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    April 8, 2011

    Noel,

    The text formatting was altered some time ago (six mos.?). The statment was that some spammers were using certain formatting options to sneak messages onto the forums. There are several posts from the time that these options were removed. Several posters did some test replies, and it seems that a few of the formatting options differed browser to browser, but basically, most options were removed.

    I'd love to see them added back, but assume that the threat still exists.

    Hunt

    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    April 8, 2011

    Thanks, Bill.

    So spammers were sneaking into the forums using what, white on white text to hide their ads?  How is that a threat? 

    And I really can't count the number of times I've been attacked through the use of underlined text. 

    So if the formatting features are removed, why not remove the formatting controls (or just gray them out)?  It just comes off as a hack job the way it is.

    -Noel