So my new scanner arrived yesterday. And I naturally had to see if it's true that Photoshop would refuse to open a scan of a $20 bill. It did refuse! Kind of impressive and a little annoying. This is the error message received:
"This application does not support the unauthorized copying of banknote images..."
It goes on to direct users to the rulesforuse.org website where the rules for use are in fact given. They are quite restrictive and include size of original specs.
So I returned to Photoshop and changed the target size to 50% of the original bill. Sure enough, Photoshop opens the image. Kind of slick. But still a little annoying.
As a work around, I was pleased to see I could scan and open a 1200 res image in Fireworks. But how long will that last since Adobe has purchased Macromedia?
There are many discussions and tips and tricks out there. Here is one such link to Freedom to Tinker.
11.23.2005
11.14.2005
WebCT Anchor
Some of the simplest web page activities become rather tricky when put in the WebCT environment. Like the anchored link -- the link that jumps down or up to a particular spot on your web page. Here is a little trick I recently found to create an anchored link on your WebCT homepage. Say you want to link from a button (e.g. Office Hours) at the top of the homepage to a position at the bottom of the homepage. And say you have three sections on your homepage: an upper textblock, a tool area, and a lower textblock. Your lower textblock contains your office hours preceded by the following anchor name:
In a normal webpage you would simply include the following anchor link code to jump down to a position in the same page:
But in WebCT we have all kinds of javascript going on that needs dealing with. So the simple anchor tag needs to be replaced with the following slightly more complex code:
This seems to work well in Campus Edition 4.1. Not sure about 6.0. Cross that bridge when we come to it.
<a name="officehours">In a normal webpage you would simply include the following anchor link code to jump down to a position in the same page:
<a href="#officehours">Office Hours</a>But in WebCT we have all kinds of javascript going on that needs dealing with. So the simple anchor tag needs to be replaced with the following slightly more complex code:
<a href="javascript:void(self.location='#officehours')">Office Hours</a>This seems to work well in Campus Edition 4.1. Not sure about 6.0. Cross that bridge when we come to it.
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