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Yeah, I'm an idiot. I can't figure out these new forums.  After going through the ugly process below, I'd like to see:- On the initial page, a way to specify that I only want to search the forum I'm already in.- On the initial page of the forum a Help button for search help. Somewhere.- Please don't make me go through the pain of refinding my chosen forum in the Where drop-down list.- Consistent use of defined terms. The search result shows me "Items". I think those are also called "Discussions".For those who want to see how stupid I really am, here's a play by play so far....Got myself to the Illustrator forum, no problem. I don't see my problem listed on the first page here. Hmmm, how do I search? Best to read the instructions. Is there a "Newbies Search Help" button somewhere?  Anywhere? Nope. Well, guess I'll forge ahead. Here's a "Search Forums" blank. I'll type "feather".  Let's see, 198 results. Cool. Here's a possibility:  "directional feather".  I'll

In the messages from one participant, I am getting a misterious horizontal scroll bar as seen here:More curiously, I see the bar in Vista/Explorer 7, but not in Mac/Firefox 2. The poster affirms not to be doing anything special, and says he is using Firefox on Vista. Anyone else? Any ideas?

As I said.... it is really klutzy looking through my emails quickly as all the threads are messed up by that stoopid serial number, SURELY those programmers can come up with something better.....really!

Is there a way to correct this?  As the threads get deeper, they get narrower and narrower.  And there's a huge right margin that's a big waste of space.

And I have notifications turned off in my preferences. Since it's my main work email address that it's getting sent to, my coworkers are starting to get annoyed. Any suggestions? I would lke to turn it off and never get another email notification ever again. Barring that, only notifications about threads that I've posted in would be minimally acceptable.

When I initially composed and posted the FAQ for the Photoshop/Mac section at the following link...http://forums.adobe.com/thread/421402?tstart=0...I coded it to include the full size version of the following image, with the direct link just below it for the benefit of those pesky text-only participants (😞I coded it to display the full-size (492pxW) image because the Jive image-shrinking routine was doing some bizarre distortion to the reduced version...where parts of the image looked smeared, as though a wet sponge had been dragged across a watercolor marker drawing. NOT the whole image, only parts of it! Never saw anything like it before.But now, I see that the image doesn't appear at all, and the link to the image doesn't work, either. I'd be happy to edit it so it works, but I 'm curious about why it worked properly for a day or two, and now it doesn't?

The Spam topic hasn't received any messages for several days, which I find unusual. Could we perhaps take this as a sign of the popularity of the new forums? Just a thought.

Hi,I am using adobe live cycle.I tried to convert one editable pdf file to tiff file. It was giving me an exception which seems i cant convert editable pdf file to tiff file. So first i converted editable pdf to non editable pdf and then converted the non editable pdf to tiff file. Then it is working fine. but while converting editable pdf to non editable pdf,barcode has been erased so in tiff also i am not getting the barcode. Please give me solution for this. It is a bit urgent.The exception stack is below[Long, long content removed by forum host, please repost in the proper forum. Thank you.]Thanks,Amit

whenever i use tbird to quote a posting, that reply always turns up blank in the forums. big time bug (well that and the fact that you can't thread email at all & oh yeah, no NTTP).see last reply from me (PaulH) in this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1906245#1906245

Sure wish I could create a poll for this, but anyway...Doesn't matter whether I have the customizing scripts enabled or not...GreaseMonkey and/or the Stylish add-on enabled or disabled. I turn AdBlock off or leave it on. Browser cache cleared, or loaded up with common AdobeForums elements.Connecting with a robust Comcast cable connection, usually testing at about 6100 kbps for download speeds.Most thread index pages take on average anywhere from 28 - 34 seconds to completely load for me.A thread with no replies maybe 10 - 12 seconds.Is anyone getting significantly faster speeds on similar connections?

I am curious as to how this goofy "answer for points" thing works and would like to experience it from the viewpoint of the original poster.The first person to reply to this "question" will be awarded the maximum number of points at my disposal.I don't check in here that frequently, so please be patient for your points. I'll come through.

Trying to navigate through Adobe forums is painful.  It is very slow and half the time the pages won't load the first time.  I'm sure we have a reliable and fast internet connection at work.

I'm using a different computer and I'm seeing this in Safari:Also, I couldn't make a new post - the message box was very narrow and not accessible. Is it just old-browser-itis or has anyone else seen this layout? The 'currently being moderated' appears by every post. Weird.(2nd edit for typos - don't like this toy keyboard either )

If I visit this forum on the web and select a discussion to read, the 'Previous' link takes me to the next one and the 'Next' link takes me to the previous one. This strikes me as illogical - or is there something I don't understand?Noel

Go to a sub-forum and then to a discussion, click on the Discussions link at the top of the window, click on the name of the parent forum, and you get a page like this: http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat?view=discussions when you should get a page like this: http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat

I realise attachments are being automatically scanned for viruses - but this is getting silly. I've just been looking at a question in the InDesign forum, and there are attachments there that have been queued for 10 hours. When someone requests a screenshot, so they can make sensible suggestions, this just stop the process dead. Can this be given a speed boost?

Clearly the Paint B****t Tool should be renamed to somthing less offensive. Any consensus for Paint Container Tool or Paint Pail Tool?Sigh.At first it was amusing, then annoying, but now just plain insane. Please, someone, remove b_u_c_k_e_t from the naughty list.

The new forums' rich-text editor hogs the CPU when using IE 8 on Vista.  The following causes it to consume 40% of a dual-core 1.8 GHz CPU (80% of a single processor):1. Reboot and open a new IE 8 window.2. Go to a forum and open 5 messages in tabs.3. Click on the first message tab.4. Reply to the message.5. Click the mouse on the editor's text box (where you type the body of a reply).6. Click on the other 4 message tabs in turn.7. Click back on the tab with the message reply being edited.If I open a new IE 8 window and repeat with another forum, about 80% of my CPU is being used.This doesn't happen with Firefox on the same machine or IE 7 on another XP machine.It's not reasonable to say "use Firefox", because most users of many products (e.g. Photoshop Elements) are on IE, and Windows auto-update is gradually upgrading users to IE 8 over the next couple of months.

Check out my post here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1896972#1896972You will see a bunch of extra plus signs (before "appliedFont"). Those plus signs were not there in the email which I sent. Here's the original text copied from my sent mail (into the web interface).You really shouldn't upload fonts for general download...Your problem is that you are missing a lot of extra equal signs.For example:if (app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.appliedFont = "Rotis Semi Sans\t45 Light")should be:if (app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.appliedFont == "Rotis Semi Sans\t45 Light")Also, I'm not sure that you are always going to get a string. It might be a font object. If that's the case you are going to need:if (app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.appliedFont == app.fonts.item("Rotis Semi Sans\t45 Light")(Or something like that...)BTW,It'll be much quicker if you get a reference to your doc and font and work from there:var doc = app.activeDocument;...var font = doc.paragraphStyles.appliedFont;....A

b What we have lost: b 1) Direct actual loss of functionality: b In the forum lists: The ability to see which threads have new posts (and how many) since the last visit: obtained by the use of flags, numbers, different colour. With it, you can immediately see and enter the threads that have grown, and the threads that you have visited. Without it, you are groping in the dark, wasting a lot of time. b In the threads: The feature of going to the last read post to continue: default. With it, you can just enter and continue reading. Without it you are groping in the dark, wasting a lot of time. The ability to open all posts without changing to a special view: obtained by pressing the Show All Messages button. With it, you can scroll easily back and forth throughout the continuous thread Without it, you have to go back and forth between pages, breaking up the continuity, unless you change to a special view (Print preview) that is lost as soon as you post. The ability to archive a who

Dear John,Referring to complaints, pleas, and the losses mentioned here:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/294108?decorator=print&displayFullThread=true,1) Is it possible for Adobe to make the Jive people change the forum structure/options?2) Has it been or will it be tried?

The forum-search query "icc profiles ilford paper", with the forum "Photoshop Elements" selected, does not find the following message:http://forums.adobe.com/message/1520276#1520276Re: ICC ProfilesI just purchased some ILFORD paper and I downloaded and installed the ICC profile into Windows Vista without any problems. My question is when I open my printer properties and select a paper profile my ILFORD ICC profile is not showing. I have a Canon Pro9000 printer. However, this Google query does: icc profiles ilford paper photoshop elements site:forums.adobe.com Sigh, in general I'm finding it faster and more reliable to use Google to search not only Adobe forums, but the knowledge base and the rest of the Adobe site as well. Also, the message above is definitely indexed by the forum search engine, since you can retrieve it using the following query: subject:"icc profiles" ilford paper Of course, at the time I was searching, I didn't know which keywords were in the subject and which

I know this was probably posted before, but the more posts the more likely it may be that an Adobe official takes notice of the problems.Problem 1: A "Search this forum"-button is mandatory to be able to use the forums. Currently, each search provides search results from all forums. Using the Options-button to narrow the search results down each time is much too slow (see also problem 2) and the selection field is badly sorted. Hasn´t anybody tested this function before migrating?Problem 2: The new forum is even slower than the old one was. Developers probably have multicore systems and bandwith enough, but for users who are restricted to use dedicated Internet gate computers (and who have less bandwidth) like us it takes at least 30 Seconds for each Adobe page to display and to be clickable. When I type, the letters appear several seconds delayed. Reduce the layout and Flash, increase the usability.

It looks like those irritating codes at the end of the subject line are goingto stay. There are a couple of things about them that make them even moreirritating, but they could - I should have thought - easily be put right.(1) The first part looks like six randomly generated ascii characterssignifying the date. If that is the case, then five digits would do untilOctober 2173, just by counting days since 1 January 1900 (today is 39919, forexample). This would mean that parts of a thread sorted by subject would stayin the right date order even though the thread spanned more than one day. Theydon't at the moment, unless the random code happens to sort alphanumericallyin the right order.(2) It looks as if the last four characters increment as posts are recorded.The problem here is that they increment according to the ascii sort order,which cannot be specified for any mail client that I know of. The sort orderis , whereas 'normal' sorting would put A and a before B andb, and so on. Again,

...at least, I haven't seen anyone else refer to this, but it's possible I've missed it. And that is...Every once in a while I've noticed that I'll log-in, or return to the forums from elsewhere (another domain) and see that I'm logged in to the forums, but at the very top left of the page I'll see that I'm NOT logged in to my Adobe account. I can't discern any pattern in how or when or under what conditions this will occur. It could be that it's happening while the system is being tweaked on the back-end; of course there's noway for me to know when that situation is occuring.Anybody else notice that? Anybody figure out a pattern for it?