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Every designer receives text that needs cleaning up, whether it’s from a client or from an email or website. Here are two handy, time-tested solutions:

Apimac’s Clean Text 6.5 ($25) does three handy things:

• It strips formatting from text you copy to your Mac’s Clipboard, so that the copied text takes on the formatting of the text you’re pasting it into.
• It cleans up the extra gunk (extra spaces, tabs, returns, >s, indents, etc.) from email and Web pages.
• It can optionally convert “dumb” text to “smart” text and vice-versa — straight quotes to curly quotes, ALL CAPS to lowercase or Word Case, three dots to an ellipsis, multiple spaces to a Tab, Windows to Mac encoding, ligature conversion, etc.

MacLab’s Text Cleaner 3 ($89), is similar, but it has a unique feature: it fixes text directly inside a QuarkXPress or InDesign document — without losing the text’s formatting. However, Text Cleaner does not strip text formatting on the Clipboard like Clean Text does.

Acrobat 8/9 and Snow Leopard

Wed, Sep 23, 2009Bug, Quark

When upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, be aware that the “Adobe PDF” printer option in the Print dialog box will no longer work. You can select it, but no PDF will be generated. While there is no fix for Acrobat 8, Adobe has a fix for Acrobat 9 in the form of the Acrobat 9.1.3 updater.

The updater adds a new “PDF Workflow” entry, which creates a new item named “Save As Adobe PDF” in the “PDF” menu-like button thing (!) in the lower left corner of the Print dialog. By selecting “Save As Adobe PDF” from this PDF menu, the Apple-based PDF will be converted into an Adobe-based PDF using your chosen Acrobat Job Options.

via Acrobat 8/9 and Snow Leopard | Planet Quark.

Blood Energy Drink Surprisingly Not Comprised of Bottled Twilight Fangirl Angst

By Jack Loftus, 3:00 PM on Sun Sep 27 2009, 12,678 views

This vampire shit has gone too far. I mean really, can we just drop the act and start drinking real human blood already?

via Blood Energy Drink Surprisingly Not Comprised of Bottled Twilight Fangirl Angst – Energy Drinks – Gizmodo.

DIECAST: New Dates Announced – Sep. 27, 2009

Boston metalcore band DIECAST has scheduled the following dates:

Oct. 02 – Gil's – Virginia Beach, VA

Oct. 03 – Jesters Pub – Fayetteville, NC

Oct. 24 – Palladium – Worcester, MA (Halloween Bash)

Nov. 07 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD

Nov. 20 – Jerky's – Providence, RI

via BLABBERMOUTH.NET – DIECAST: New Dates Announced .