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...maintenance overview 9 Chapter 2: Getting Started The Contribute workflow 11 Connecting to a website or blog 12 Starting Contribute without a network connection 13 Integrating Contribute with Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications 15 Integrating Adobe Bridge CS3 with Adobe Contribute CS3 16 Chapter 3: Exploring the Contribute Workspace The Contribute workspace 19 Switching between browsing and editing 23... a web page or blog entry 56 Chapter 5: Adding Pages, Blog Entries, and Documents About converting documents to PDFs (Windows only 58 Creating or copying a page on your website 58
...maintenance overview 9 Chapter 2: Getting Started The Contribute workflow 11 Connecting to a website or blog 12 Starting Contribute without a network connection 13 Integrating Contribute with Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications 15 Integrating Adobe Bridge CS3 with Adobe Contribute CS3 16 Chapter 3: Exploring the Contribute Workspace The Contribute workspace 19 Switching between browsing and editing 23... a web page or blog entry 56 Chapter 5: Adding Pages, Blog Entries, and Documents About converting documents to PDFs (Windows only 58 Creating or copying a page on your website 58
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... for a blog entry 67 Inserting MS Office documents as PDFs in Contribute pages (Windows only 72 Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website 73 Opening documents in Contribute from Microsoft Office applications (Windows only) . . . . . 75 Inserting PDFs in Contribute pages 82 Inserting HTML code snippets into Contribute pages 83 Chapter 6: Working with Text About HTML...
... for a blog entry 67 Inserting MS Office documents as PDFs in Contribute pages (Windows only 72 Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website 73 Opening documents in Contribute from Microsoft Office applications (Windows only) . . . . . 75 Inserting PDFs in Contribute pages 82 Inserting HTML code snippets into Contribute pages 83 Chapter 6: Working with Text About HTML...
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...DVD (and is also copied to the application folder during product installation). If you postpone registration, you can be provided as a PDF that is available in -product Help, plus updates and links to additional instructional content available on the web. For some products, ...software. Most versions of updates, and other services. • To register, follow the on-screen instructions in the Adobe Help Resource Center, at www.adobe.com/go/ctcs3_documentation. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 2 User Guide Note: If you want to install the software on a different computer, you add comments.
...DVD (and is also copied to the application folder during product installation). If you postpone registration, you can be provided as a PDF that is available in -product Help, plus updates and links to additional instructional content available on the web. For some products, ...software. Most versions of updates, and other services. • To register, follow the on-screen instructions in the Adobe Help Resource Center, at www.adobe.com/go/ctcs3_documentation. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 2 User Guide Note: If you want to install the software on a different computer, you add comments.
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... Viewer, click Browse to see only those topics that is included with a Photoshop icon and a Contribute icon, you learn about multiple Adobe products, these features are no embedded fonts. For example, the Previous and Next links include the titles of the complete ... web. • Some topics are shared across Help for multiple products. • Topics may include a printed getting started guide. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 3 User Guide All PDF documentation is available through the Help menu. Keyboard shortcuts for toolbar controls (Windows) Each control in the phrase. To help you know...
... Viewer, click Browse to see only those topics that is included with a Photoshop icon and a Contribute icon, you learn about multiple Adobe products, these features are no embedded fonts. For example, the Previous and Next links include the titles of the complete ... web. • Some topics are shared across Help for multiple products. • Topics may include a printed getting started guide. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 3 User Guide All PDF documentation is available through the Help menu. Keyboard shortcuts for toolbar controls (Windows) Each control in the phrase. To help you know...
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ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 6 User Guide Presets Presets comprise a wide variety of creative possibilities offered by your application. Product presets include brushes, swatches, color groups, symbols, custom shapes, graphic and layer styles, patterns, textures, actions, workspaces, and more free content, visit www.adobe.... product-specific files such as specimen sheets, reference guides, and specialized feature information. The Documentation folder contains a PDF version of free actions, extensions, plug-ins, and other documents such as templates, images, presets, actions, plug-ins, and ...
ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 6 User Guide Presets Presets comprise a wide variety of creative possibilities offered by your application. Product presets include brushes, swatches, color groups, symbols, custom shapes, graphic and layer styles, patterns, textures, actions, workspaces, and more free content, visit www.adobe.... product-specific files such as specimen sheets, reference guides, and specialized feature information. The Documentation folder contains a PDF version of free actions, extensions, plug-ins, and other documents such as templates, images, presets, actions, plug-ins, and ...
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...the URL of Contribute supported only IPv4, you can browse for inserting PDFs in Adobe Contribute pages You can insert MS Word and MS Excel documents as PDF in Adobe Contribute pages You can insert PDF files in an Adobe Contribute page. (See "Inserting PDFs in Contribute CS3 Adobe Contribute CS3 includes IPv6 ...clicking the Refresh icon next to it. (See "Refreshing the Entries list" on computers with Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Contribute CS3 can access connections to PDF. The Adobe Help Viewer is a common application used to all Creative Suite 3 products. Enhanced blog entry ...
...the URL of Contribute supported only IPv4, you can browse for inserting PDFs in Adobe Contribute pages You can insert MS Word and MS Excel documents as PDF in Adobe Contribute pages You can insert PDF files in an Adobe Contribute page. (See "Inserting PDFs in Contribute CS3 Adobe Contribute CS3 includes IPv6 ...clicking the Refresh icon next to it. (See "Refreshing the Entries list" on computers with Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Contribute CS3 can access connections to PDF. The Adobe Help Viewer is a common application used to all Creative Suite 3 products. Enhanced blog entry ...
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... is used to Adobe Contribute: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Encore. • Print files from the following Creative Suite 3 applications in Adobe Contribute using the PDF printer and the Print function in the Cross-DOM API: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Adobe Fireworks. •...
... is used to Adobe Contribute: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Encore. • Print files from the following Creative Suite 3 applications in Adobe Contribute using the PDF printer and the Print function in the Cross-DOM API: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Adobe Fireworks. •...
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... To edit user preferences: 1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Contribute > Preferences (Macintosh). ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 28 User Guide Setting Contribute preferences You use the Preferences dialog box to set your user preferences for... your FTP proxy server. • Select Invisible Elements to hide or show invisible elements. • (Windows only) Select Microsoft Office Documents to determine how Contribute handles Office documents • Select PDF...
... To edit user preferences: 1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Contribute > Preferences (Macintosh). ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 28 User Guide Setting Contribute preferences You use the Preferences dialog box to set your user preferences for... your FTP proxy server. • Select Invisible Elements to hide or show invisible elements. • (Windows only) Select Microsoft Office Documents to determine how Contribute handles Office documents • Select PDF...
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... tags to add comments. - 57 Chapter 5: Adding Pages, Blog Entries, and Documents With Adobe® Contribute® CS3, you can add pages to . You can also use a search engine to an Adobe® Flash® Player 9 document. You can create and post blog entries to a blog entry by using its ... contains the following for a blog entry" on a template. You can also create a blank blog entry, create a blog entry by saving the new page to PDFs (Windows only)" on page 58 • "Creating or copying a page on your website" on page 58 • "Creating a stand-alone web page" on...
... tags to add comments. - 57 Chapter 5: Adding Pages, Blog Entries, and Documents With Adobe® Contribute® CS3, you can add pages to . You can also use a search engine to an Adobe® Flash® Player 9 document. You can create and post blog entries to a blog entry by using its ... contains the following for a blog entry" on a template. You can also create a blank blog entry, create a blog entry by saving the new page to PDFs (Windows only)" on page 58 • "Creating or copying a page on your website" on page 58 • "Creating a stand-alone web page" on...
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... 1 Navigate to the page you publish; To create a copy of these documents in Adobe Contribute web pages or blog entry drafts. You cannot create a copy of the document to the page. The PDF files are currently viewing on your website You can create, you won't see "Settings ...for new web pages" on relevant Administrator settings. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 58 User Guide • "Inserting MS Office documents as PDFs in Contribute pages (Windows only)" on page 72 • "Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website" on...
... 1 Navigate to the page you publish; To create a copy of these documents in Adobe Contribute web pages or blog entry drafts. You cannot create a copy of the document to the page. The PDF files are currently viewing on your website You can create, you won't see "Settings ...for new web pages" on relevant Administrator settings. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 58 User Guide • "Inserting MS Office documents as PDFs in Contribute pages (Windows only)" on page 72 • "Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website" on...
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... Microsoft Powerpoint presentation, and want the PDF document to a PDF document and inserts it in your page in Adobe Contribute web pages or blog entry drafts. Contribute converts the document to appear. 2 Select Insert > Document as PDF. The Insert Office Document as PDF dialog box appears. 4 Select one ... MS Office document as a PDF involves conversion of the document to a PDF, and embeds the PDF document as an object. To delete a PDF document from a draft: 1 In the draft, click the PDF document to a PDF before it . 2 Press the Delete key. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 72 User Guide Inserting ...
... Microsoft Powerpoint presentation, and want the PDF document to a PDF document and inserts it in your page in Adobe Contribute web pages or blog entry drafts. Contribute converts the document to appear. 2 Select Insert > Document as PDF. The Insert Office Document as PDF dialog box appears. 4 Select one ... MS Office document as a PDF involves conversion of the document to a PDF, and embeds the PDF document as an object. To delete a PDF document from a draft: 1 In the draft, click the PDF document to a PDF before it . 2 Press the Delete key. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 72 User Guide Inserting ...
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...existing web page or blog entry. When you add content to a page, Contribute converts it to HTML and copies it to a PDF document and inserts it to PDF and embed the PDF as an embedded object in North America. Contribute converts the document to your draft. There are four ways to add Word ... of a Word or Excel document to the original file on your computer do not appear on your website or blog entry. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 73 User Guide To create and insert a PDF document by dragging: 1 In the draft, place the insertion point where you want the PDF document to the insertion point.
...existing web page or blog entry. When you add content to a page, Contribute converts it to HTML and copies it to a PDF document and inserts it to PDF and embed the PDF as an embedded object in North America. Contribute converts the document to your draft. There are four ways to add Word ... of a Word or Excel document to the original file on your computer do not appear on your website or blog entry. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 73 User Guide To create and insert a PDF document by dragging: 1 In the draft, place the insertion point where you want the PDF document to the insertion point.
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... the document to your website and then links to that the file is larger than 300K, Contribute notifies you that copy (not to the original file on your computer). ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 74 User Guide If the document you are converting to HTML is too large to convert and gives you ...required Microsoft Office document, and click Open. • (Windows only) From Windows Explorer, drag the file from its current location to the Contribute draft where you want the link to a PDF document. To add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a draft: 1 In your draft where you must insert a link ...
... the document to your website and then links to that the file is larger than 300K, Contribute notifies you that copy (not to the original file on your computer). ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 74 User Guide If the document you are converting to HTML is too large to convert and gives you ...required Microsoft Office document, and click Open. • (Windows only) From Windows Explorer, drag the file from its current location to the Contribute draft where you want the link to a PDF document. To add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a draft: 1 In your draft where you must insert a link ...
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... link text after you create the link, see the following options to insert the PDF document in your Contribute draft: Note: These options are available for Contribute to insert the contents into a PDF, and embed the PDF document as a link or embedded object: 1 In the draft, place the insertion...content to PDF and inserting them in drafts (Windows only) You can open Contribute. In the dialog box that appears, browse to the document, and then click OK. Note: The Contribute toolbar is converted to be asked about the insert option in the draft. A link to . ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 ...
... link text after you create the link, see the following options to insert the PDF document in your Contribute draft: Note: These options are available for Contribute to insert the contents into a PDF, and embed the PDF document as a link or embedded object: 1 In the draft, place the insertion...content to PDF and inserting them in drafts (Windows only) You can open Contribute. In the dialog box that appears, browse to the document, and then click OK. Note: The Contribute toolbar is converted to be asked about the insert option in the draft. A link to . ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 ...
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...document into a page from Microsoft Office applications to the document, save the document before opening them. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 76 User Guide Opening documents in Contribute from Microsoft Word, Excel, and the Outlook e-mail reader Whenever you can the edit the content in...Inserting a Word or Excel document as a PDF. When you add content to a page, Contribute copies the contents of the message in Contribute, you open it in Contribute. • Select Contribute > Open in Contribute. • Click the Open in Contribute button in Contribute, and publish it to your new web ...
...document into a page from Microsoft Office applications to the document, save the document before opening them. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 76 User Guide Opening documents in Contribute from Microsoft Word, Excel, and the Outlook e-mail reader Whenever you can the edit the content in...Inserting a Word or Excel document as a PDF. When you add content to a page, Contribute copies the contents of the message in Contribute, you open it in Contribute. • Select Contribute > Open in Contribute. • Click the Open in Contribute button in Contribute, and publish it to your new web ...
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... where you want to the document in a draft. If you do not click the Choose Template button in the Open as a PDF from Microsoft Office (Windows only) With Contribute, you can do one of the following : • Click the Open using the old template button to open the document using ...the insert option in the future. For more information about options in the dialog box, click the Help button 7 Click Open. Note: Contribute provides an alert if you do not want to place your document. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 79 User Guide Note: This checkbox is enabled only if you have a website connection.
... where you want to the document in a draft. If you do not click the Choose Template button in the Open as a PDF from Microsoft Office (Windows only) With Contribute, you can do one of the following : • Click the Open using the old template button to open the document using ...the insert option in the future. For more information about options in the dialog box, click the Help button 7 Click Open. Note: Contribute provides an alert if you do not want to place your document. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 79 User Guide Note: This checkbox is enabled only if you have a website connection.
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.... 5 Click the Choose Template button. The Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box appears. 8 Select Convert to PDF and create a link to the PDF or Convert to PDF and embed the PDF as New Page dialog box, the template that was last used to open a Microsoft Office document is associated ... the target website does not have templates, when you click the Choose Template button a message indicating that there are no templates is displayed. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 80 User Guide Note: If the target website does not have templates, when you click the Choose Template button a message indicating that ...
.... 5 Click the Choose Template button. The Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box appears. 8 Select Convert to PDF and create a link to the PDF or Convert to PDF and embed the PDF as New Page dialog box, the template that was last used to open a Microsoft Office document is associated ... the target website does not have templates, when you click the Choose Template button a message indicating that there are no templates is displayed. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 80 User Guide Note: If the target website does not have templates, when you click the Choose Template button a message indicating that ...
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... is inserted in a selected template: • For this check box, if desired. 10 Click OK. This list is created based on the old template. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 81 User Guide Note: While creating a new page, if you select a template that does not match the template on the server...want to be asked about the insert option in the HTML format. 11 (Optional) If you converted the document to a PDF file, Contribute inserts a link to the PDF file, or embeds the PDF file as an object. 14 (Optional) Select the Remember this page to update templates and editable regions in the draft. If...
... is inserted in a selected template: • For this check box, if desired. 10 Click OK. This list is created based on the old template. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 81 User Guide Note: While creating a new page, if you select a template that does not match the template on the server...want to be asked about the insert option in the HTML format. 11 (Optional) If you converted the document to a PDF file, Contribute inserts a link to the PDF file, or embeds the PDF file as an object. 14 (Optional) Select the Remember this page to update templates and editable regions in the draft. If...
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... web address and navigate to the folder containing the PDF you want the PDF document to appear. 2 Select Insert > PDF Document > From Website. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 82 User Guide Inserting PDFs in Contribute pages Adobe Contribute CS3 lets you embed PDFs as objects, or insert links to PDFs in the draft. The Insert PDF Document dialog box appears. 4 Select one of the...
... web address and navigate to the folder containing the PDF you want the PDF document to appear. 2 Select Insert > PDF Document > From Website. ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 82 User Guide Inserting PDFs in Contribute pages Adobe Contribute CS3 lets you embed PDFs as objects, or insert links to PDFs in the draft. The Insert PDF Document dialog box appears. 4 Select one of the...
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...me again check box, if desired, and then click OK. To resize an embedded PDF file with specific values: 1 In your draft, select the content of the embedded PDF you can use Adobe Contribute CS3 to add custom HTML code snippets to constrain proportions. 4 Click OK. The...you want to resize. 2 Drag one of the embedded PDF object. The PDF Properties dialog box appears. 3 Enter Width and Height values, and choose whether or not to Contribute pages. Inserting HTML code snippets into Contribute pages Advanced Adobe Contribute users can resize the object by entering specific values in ...
...me again check box, if desired, and then click OK. To resize an embedded PDF file with specific values: 1 In your draft, select the content of the embedded PDF you can use Adobe Contribute CS3 to add custom HTML code snippets to constrain proportions. 4 Click OK. The...you want to resize. 2 Drag one of the embedded PDF object. The PDF Properties dialog box appears. 3 Enter Width and Height values, and choose whether or not to Contribute pages. Inserting HTML code snippets into Contribute pages Advanced Adobe Contribute users can resize the object by entering specific values in ...