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Jan 21, 2025 | 
hayandforage.com | Mike Rankin
Proper care and nutrition for the human infant or bovine calf is often pontificated upon as a critical step toward the optimum development of the young adult or cow. In other words, the future is only as bright as the health and performance of a population’s young. It’s difficult to argue with that mantra. After years of research, this same line of thinking can easily be transferred to the alfalfa field.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
hoards.com | Mike Rankin
A feed and forage outlook for the year aheadPresented by Mike Rankin, Hay & Forage Grower and Mike Hutjens, University of IllinoisSponsored by QLFVIDEOThe ramifications of a challenging crop year included delayed corn planting and lower forage quality for both alfalfa and corn silage. Crop acreage shifted, reflecting anticipated market prices. Higher milk prices will affect many decisions farmers need to make going into 2025.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
creativepro.com | Mike Rankin
Home / Events / Editor’s Picks for The Design + AI Summit 2024
In the 30 years I’ve been working in graphic design and production, nothing has been so earth-shaking as the coming of Generative AI.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
creativepro.com | Mike Rankin
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While it’s much more common for Photoshop files to be placed into InDesign layouts, occasionally you may need to do the opposite, and open InDesign layouts as layered Photoshop files.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
creativepro.com | Mike Rankin
Home / PDF / How to Make Scrolling the Default for Page Display in Adobe Acrobat When you’re viewing a multi-page PDF in Adobe Acrobat, by default the view will snap from one page to the next instead of scrolling smoothly. That’s not a problem when you’re viewing the entire page, but if you’re zoomed in at all it’s very hard to navigate through the document. If you don’t go incredibly slow and careful, you’ll jump to the next/previous page and skip over content.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
creativepro.com | Mike Rankin
Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French. @2024 CreativePro Network. All Rights Reserved. Design by: Lotus Child | Site by: Larry Jacob Internet Marketing Close dialog Session expiredPlease log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
creativepro.com | Mike Rankin
Home / Layout / Scripts to Resize Pages to Content in InDesign is now part of CreativePro.com! Did you ever need to match the size of a page in InDesign to a text frame (or other content) on that page? There are a couple scripts that can speed up the process for you. One is by Michel Allio. It’s called Resize Page on Text Frame and it does exactly that, for all pages in a document. You don’t have to select anything before running the script.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
creativepro.com | Mike Rankin
CreativePro’s third annual Design + Marketing Summit takes place online November 18-19. There’s no better opportunity to learn essential design and production techniques for social media, email, print, and more to boost your marketing success. I can’t wait to check it out from start to finish, but here are four highlights that I’m especially excited about.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
creativepro.com | Mike Rankin
Join us at the 5th annual Design + Accessibility Summit, the essential HOW-TO event for design professionals who need to master accessibility, coming to a device near you October 8–11, 2024. It’s no secret that accessibility is a hot topic. In fact, ensuring your documents are accessible is not just a good idea: it’s the law.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
hayandforage.com | Mike Rankin
Pasture managers have a different-looking toolbox than most farmers. Somewhere deep in the corner of those toolboxes, buried under the grasses and legumes, are the brassicas. Although they are not as commonly used as many foundational perennials, annual brassicas can provide a fast, high-quality forage source in just about any type of grazing system.
