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Adress in XFDF the field name is listed following field name and the value is contained in a separate element. Thus, it wouldnt work for XML but thats OK, its still a great utility for workign with Acro. Forms. The fact that your utility allows the user to select an existing Excel doc is a huge advantage over the Acrobat process in that Acrobat basically generates the Excel doc for you, and the user is stuck with appending data through some other means i. That being said, appending to the top of the list isnt a huge problem. When most people think of Adobe, they either think of Photoshop or Acrobat Reader. But the company has a plethora of other useful software packages that most people. Yes Adobe Acrobat DC version 12 has been announced See whats new different in this release ProStandardReader, plus what the Document Cloud is. While its relatively easy to write an Action to resize a series of images in Photoshop, its easier still to get Photoshop to do all the work for you. Photoshop. Adobe Marketing Cloud gives you the most complete set of digital marketing solutions so you can deliver customers personal experiences across all marketing channels. Im just used to seeing data append at the bottom since thats how Excel does it when you Map Fields working with XML data. But like you mentioned, your utility includes filters to sort the data, so its basically the same slice of pie at the end of the day. P. S. I think it would be a great thing to includepackage the PDF form you used to generate the XFDF and format the config file. That way users can visually see the field names and placement within the actual form, all of which could help them follow the structure of the config file a lot better. Just a suggestion. In fact, I d appreciate it if would email me a blank verison of the PDF file so that I could follow along,  Ill private message you my email address if you dont mind. A Few Tips For UI Designers Smashing Magazine. Ive been a long time Photoshop and Illustrator user. Both programs are really useful and powerful, and theyll remain a key part of any digital artists or designers toolset, including mine. However, for all user interface, web and icon design workflows, I recently converted to Sketch. Here is why. While Photoshop is awesome at what it does, defining what it is might not be so easy anymore. I remember watching a storyboarding tutorial by Massive Blacks El Coro unfortunately, it doesnt seem to be available for sale anymore. In it, he says that 1. Adobe had no idea that digital artists were using Photoshop to digitally paint pictures So, it had to catch up with its own user base by adding more you guessed it painting features. I feel that the same kind of thing happened a bit later with Photoshop and user interface design. It was the only robust graphics tool that people knew or had access to some years ago, so they started using it for UI design, as well as for illustration and photo editing. Photoshop is still widely used as a tool for UI design, even if Sketch has taken the lead. Poll source smashingmag. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Lite Touch Lighting more. Then, as a result, Adobe started adding more and more features targeted at interface designers, even though the program was initially intended and designed for a completely different purpose. Switching To Illustrator The Annoyances. From Photoshop to Illustrator. Because using Photoshop for user interface design is, in my view, a needlessly painful experience and I am not alone in this view, I first tried switching to Illustrator. Illustrator made things much better for me for a few reasons Dealing with a lot of artboards is easier I can select any object on any layer or any artboard with a single click, without ever having to hunt down layer names in the Layers panel also, exporting assets in the latest Creative Cloud versions has been greatly improved and so on. Illustrators vector nature has a lot of advantages for designing icons and scalable interfaces, and using it I find it much easier and quicker to draw, modify and expand shapes. It can export my assets to SVG, and it gives me control over the SVG output code. Illustrator also feels more appropriate for this type of work because the paradigm of working with vector graphics is very similar to working with web technologies containers, CSS styles, document structure, vector fonts. After all, web browsers are essentially vector rendering engines. Problems With Illustrator. However, I hit some silly problems every now and again. For example, previewing a design on a mobile device there is simply no software that allows me to do this directly. Photoshop has Device Preview, but its for i. OS only, and there is no such tool for Illustrator. So, I had to use a third party tool named The Preview. And every time I wanted to device preview a screen, I had to copy my Illustrator artboard into Photoshop, scale it up I always work in mdpi, and my devices are xhdpi or xxhdpi, and then run The Preview on my device which sometimes refused to work and which doesnt support scrolling. Also, even with the addition of CC libraries and with Illustrators dynamic symbols feature, some tasks remained kind of annoying or tedious, like using a large set of icons. In Illustrator, there is no simple and straightforward way to quickly add a premade icon and to quickly override its size or color without creating a bunch of duplicates. Is your pattern library up to date today Alla Kholmatova has just finished a fully fledged book on Design Systems and how to get them right. With common traps, gotchas and the lessons she learned. Hardcover, e. Book. Just sayin. Table of Contents . Specifying My Files. Specifying my files was a problem for me, too. It is, of course, my job to provide developers with a well specified design. This helps to prevent questions such as What is the distance between this element and that element and What font size is this text objectPhotoshop has a whole bunch of specification tools, but Ive never used them. There arent that many for Illustrator, and all have their drawbacks. Arguably, the most feature full is Specctr, but I had technical difficulties running it also, it has no dp as a measuring unit. So, I ended up using a slightly modified version of the Illustrator Specify script to measure the sizes of and distances between objects for design specifications. However, as great as that script is, specifying my designs with it was still rather tedious and time consuming. My Deal Breaker. While these problems are arguably annoying and slow down my work, they arent things that I couldnt get used to and overcome. However, the two Android projects Im currently working on are a file manager and an email client which means that a lot of my high fidelity mockups are full of lists, avatars, file icons, file sizes and other types of data. To further complicate the situation, both projects come with a light and a dark UI theme. Also, a lot of my designs need to be tailored to both phones and tablets in both landscape and portrait modes. This means a lot of copying and pasting, symbol editing, typing, selecting and deselecting, and so on. Illustrators Dynamic Symbols. Admittedly, Illustrators symbols and libraries features can be handy and save me some manual labor. But they can be quite limited for example, one cant have multiple iterations of the same symbol or of the same library graphic. For me, this meant that I couldnt use the same symbol say, an icon or a button in both my dark and light theme mockups because I couldnt change its color without modifying the symbol graphic itself. The same goes for the library feature. Problems With Data Driven Design in Illustrator. Now, the most efficient way for me to avoid having to copy and paste is to have all text entries see Subject, From, Content Preview and Time in the example below as variables and to dynamically load predefined strings of data for each entry. These are the four strings of data for my email apps Inbox mockup. This is, in fact, possible in Illustrator. I could create my spreadsheet with data, import it in Illustrator with the help of a plugin and be ready with one huge caveat, however There can be only one variable entry per iteration of the file This makes the feature perfect for something like a business card project, where youd want to keep the design the same and only change some text such as the name and phone number. When you export the final PDF files, youd simply iterate a hundred times through a spreadsheet of data to get a hundred different names and phone numbers. This would produce a hundred nice, corporate business cards for a hundred happy employees. However, this behavior renders Illustrators data features pretty much useless to me, because I need to populate a lot of of text entries simultaneously, each with a different string, on multiple artboards, and so on. A Potential Creative Cloud Solution If you must stay in the Adobe Creative Cloud realm, or if switching to a Mac is not an option, there still might be a solution. Adobes new tool, Adobe XD, handles working with dynamic data fairly well. However, because its a new tool, it can feel limited in other ways. Also, Adobe XDs Windows version currently lags behind the Mac one. The Solution Switching To Mac And Sketch.