Danyl’s Blog

Math in Illustrator

If you use Adobe Illustrator a lot this might be handy for you. You can do multiplication, division, addtion and subtraction within the app:

As the screenshot shows above, I have a 10mm box and I want to increase its width by 2. So in the ‘Width’ field I simply type in ‘10mm * 2’ and voila. Granted this is not that usefull for a simple operation like this however, if you find yourself often using decimals (e.g. the golden ratio) this is a time saver.

Tab multiple lines at the same time in Coda

Quick tip for people who use Coda for development and like their code to look clean and organized. Have you ever pasted in a snippet of code with tab spacing that’s out of sync with its surroundings?

Those <ul> and <li> tags are way to far to the right. Previously, I would have wasted so much time aligning them one-by-one. Then, by accident, I discovered that you can adjust the tab spacing of multiple lines at the same time.

Simply select the line that you wish to align and hold down Command + ] to tab them over to the right and Command + [ to tab them over to the left. You’ll end up with nicely formatted code: