Adobe

Acrobat

Enable keyboard shortcuts

• <C-k> opens preferences

Flash

• F8 to convert to symbol
• <C-U> opens up preferences
• o for oval tool
• <C-3> zooms until you can see all the symbols
• <C-1> zooms to 100%
• <C-2> zooms and focus on the stage
• <C-l> shows the Library pane
• <C-F3> shows the Properties pane
• <C-S-F12> opens up Publish Settings
• <A-S-F12> to publish

Timeline

• F4 shows/hides the current panel
• <C-A-t> shows the timeline
• F5 inserts frames
• <C-F5> deletes frames
• F6 converts to keyframe
• <S-F6> converts to regular frame
• F7 inserts blank keyframe

Flash JavaScript

• Bring up the command history panel with F-10
• Save a command (as .jsfl).
• Commands are saved here: %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash CS6\en_US\Configuration\Commands
• To print to the console, use fl.trace('insert text here'). This only takes one argument, unfortunately.

Loading up arbitrary files with Flfile (from xjsfl.com:

var pathToFile = "file:///c|Users/Eddie/Documents/scrap/textfile.txt" 
var myFile = FLfile.read(pathToFile);
if (myFile) {
    fl.trace(myFile)
} else {
    fl.trace('file not loaded');

Illustrator

• L for drawing an ellipse
• K to live paint a selection of lines
• H for hand tool (moving around the art board)
• V for selection tool
• E for free transform tool (rotate, skew etc.)
• <C-S-F11> to show symbols
• <C-S-F9> to show the pathfinder. Use the divide tool to create more objects
• Alt + Drag to duplicate an object

Photoshop

• Panning - use the hand tool for this - either hold down Space or press h

• Zooming - either Ctrl + -/+, or Alt + MouseScroll

• Undoing - seems that Ctrl+Z toggles between undo and redo. To go backwards and forwards, use:

  • Step forward: Shift+Ctrl+Z
  • Step backward: Alt+Ctrl+Z

Pixel Drawing

• Use the brush tool, by setting the size to 1.
• Use the pencil tool - can show this in the flyout menu of the brush tool. Either that, or toggle it with Shift+B.
• To fill in large swathes of the pixels, use the paint bucket tool with the tolerance set to zero, and with the anti-aliasing disabled.