Re: Publisher files on a Mac?

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Phil
I have used the View option on MacLink Plus to copy and paste the 
text. Of course format and graphics are lost. When such items are 
required as well I'm afraid I visit my son who is on the darkside and 
use his MS Publisher.

Merv

At 6:49 PM +0800 10/6/03, Phillip McGree wrote:

Hiya,

Anyone know of any ways of opening up a Microsoft Publisher file on a Mac?

I've been forwarded such a file with the request of converting it to 
a word file.



Regards,
Phil




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Re: OSX book.

[Trevor Lee]

> On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Lloyd White wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone suggest a book on OSX ?
> > Am currently using OS9.2.1 and need some advice. Or there may 
> > be a website that does that.

There has just been a review done on Slashdot about 'Mac OS X Hints' 
by O'Reilly:

http://tinyurl.com/dy8e

Regards

Trevor Lee
Highway 1 Internet Solutions

Re: Word and invisible garbage

[John Winters]

I don't know if this will help,

but I seem to remember that if the (default) "Fast Save" option is used in
any version of Word, the file size will bloat because all your changes are
just tacked onto the end of the file with instructions to put this bit here
so to speak. This would account for the multiple copies of the same text
plus miscellaneous rubbish within the file. As I recall, the cure was to
turn off the fast save option, then save as a new file which would force
Word to resolve the mess into one coherent (and rather more compact) file.

HTH
John

on 9/6/03 11:50 AM, Rob Phillips at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> I have experienced this problem. With a slow modem, you don't want
> to upload lots of rubbish.
> 
> What I used to do was save the doc as RTF, then resave it in Word
> format. This cleaned it up.
> 
> Recently, however, I found the cause of the problem. The save
> preferences dialog in Office X explains it.
> 
> The default is to have the 'allow fast saves' option. This is what
> keeps extra copies of versions of the doc within the doc. If you
> change the option to 'always create a backup', the crap gets deleted.
> 
> Try it.
> 
> Rob
> 
>> Here's a challenging question - I think.
>> 
>> 
>> I am using MS Word 2001 for the Macintosh. I receive all manner of
>> Word docs from all over Australia and NZ, normally without problem.
>> 
>> 
>> Recently I have been writing a couple of largish business
>> plans/agreements with two colleagues. In one case - the agreement, I
>> was setting up a TOC and tidying it up. Saved it and noticed that it
>> was 1500K - way too big for a 28 pp document. Opened it up in
>> BBEditLite and found an absolute mass of garbage, two repetitions
>> of the text complete with all the track changes that had been made
>> over some months.
>> 
>> No matter what I did (except to save as a Text file and then do all
>> the style re-setting over), no re-saves would reduce the size nor
>> get rid of the garbage.
>> 
>> Sent it to one colleague who uses a late version of Word on a PC.
>> Got it back, still contains some remnants of garbage but now down to
>> 132K.
>> 
>> Is there something the are missing? Failing to do? Is one of my
>> colleagues' machine doing a corruption? Is this symptomatic of
>> conflicts between older versions of Word and crossing PC-MAC
>> platforms?
>> 
>> Bill
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Re: inside knowledge please

[Martin Hill]

At 7:38 PM +0800 10/6/03, Edward wrote:

Does anyone know of any plans by Apple that will significantly change
the current line up of G4 towers? I don't want to buy now and find that
in August or September Apple has released an equivalent machine for
less dollars or the same dollars will buy more machine.


Well Edward, you need to take all the rumours with a serious grain of 
salt - rampant rumours of a fast G5 in the lead-ups to previous 
Macworlds over the last 12 months or more all came to naught for 
example.


However, considering the reports of end-of-lifing of current G4 
desktops and the many reports of IBM's new PowerPC 970 being 
tailor-made for Apple (with Altivec built-in etc) really mean it is 
probably prudent to wait till after Apple's WWDC to see if any of the 
rumours are true. See below for a report from one of the many rumour 
sites. Remember - this is still rumour so caveat empor!


As we're only talking a few weeks, I would wait. Here's hoping.

-Mart

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http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=114

Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC

By: Kasper Jade
06.10.03

Panther, the next generation of Apple's modern-day Mac OS X operating 
system, won't be the only thing turning heads three weeks from now in 
San Francisco. The computer maker, which will not be attending the 
Macworld "Creative Pro" conference in July, will use its annual 
developers conference to showcase this summer's product offerings, 
sources tell AppleInsider.


Traditionally, Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is 
scheduled during the month of May. However, in March of this year, 
the company announced that it had rescheduled its 2003 Worldwide 
Developers Conference for late June, in order to provide developers 
with a more complete preview release of "Panther." What the press 
release did not say is that this first developer release of Panther 
would be demonstrated by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, on the company's new 
line of Power Mac G5 desktop computers.


The new Power Mac G5s will sport a completely new motherboard design 
utilizing DDR 400 RAM as well as AGP 8x graphics, FireWire 800 
(FireWire 2), and USB 2.0, sources said. "In the box" connectivity 
among the news systems is based on Hypertransport -- a universal 
chip-to-chip interconnect developed by AMD and partners -- which 
provides 64-bit addressing and will replace Apple's multilevel bus 
architecture found in current systems. This royalty-free technology 
sports a low manufacturing cost and is capable of transferring data 
at up to 12.8 Gigabytes per second.


The new Power Macs will be powered by IBM's 64 bit PPC 970 processor, 
otherwise known to Apple Marketing as the the "G5." Initial offerings 
of the Power Mac G5 are said to boast 1.4 to 1.8GHz, single core PPC 
970 processors, with the possibility of a dual 1.8GHz chips shortly 
thereafter.


To accommodate the new motherboard architecture, Apple has developed 
a modified Power Mac G5 enclosure, which is said to be more square 
and compact than the current Power Mac G4's deep, rectangular 
form-factor. It lacks the 4 curved handles found on current units, 
but sports a single USB and a single FireWire 800 port on the front 
of the casing, with additional ports in the rear.


According to sources, Apple plans to make the Power Mac G5 available 
to the public following their introduction on June 23rd. These 
initial units will ship with Mac OS 10.2, and hence, will not be 
optimized for the 64 bit PPC 970 processor. Consumers who purchase 
these Power Mac G5s will receive a coupon for a free copy of Mac OS 
10.3 (Panther), which will ship in September and will be optimized 
for the new 64 bit processor.

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inside knowledge please

[Edward]

Hello

I have a G4 400 which I purchased when they first came out. Its been a 
great machine but I now wish to move up to a 1.25 MHz duelie and plan 
on doing that by 30 June - great trade in offers at Desktop 
Applications :-)


Does anyone know of any plans by Apple that will significantly change 
the current line up of G4 towers? I don't want to buy now and find that 
in August or September Apple has released an equivalent machine for 
less dollars or the same dollars will buy more machine.


Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Best wishes
edward 

Publisher files on a Mac?

[Phillip McGree]

Hiya,

Anyone know of any ways of opening up a Microsoft Publisher file on a Mac?

I've been forwarded such a file with the request of converting it to a word 
file.


Regards,
Phil




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Internet Chess

[Rick Armstrong]

My daughter is trying to play Chess over the Internet without much success.
Does anyone know a Mac friendly site for OS8.6 on a G4. 

no news is good news for Apple? Re: CD Baby on iTunes Music Store

[Mark Secker]

Interesting reading (from West Australian article today, p39 "Apple's
core is aired" by ScuttleBytes)
http://www.gnutellanews.com/article/6830



Ah Apple, the only company that prefers no news to good news...

Apart from the issue of self published artists not being invited (hey 
that's what co-op labels are for my fellow musical friends) then this 
actually comes through as pretty positive stuff to get out and about 
to both the purchasing public and the grass roots of the music 
industry


if I were an independent label I could only wish I was grossing this 
much per song using "old fashion" CD & vinal.



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CommPost: It's a longie!

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If you'd like to order just reply by email. Remember this is a special
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Two other specials (there are some others in the FireWire section
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All specials are for current stock only, so it's first in, first
served. If they haven't all disappeared already all specials expire
Saturday 14 June. 


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Many mail list readers have asked about connecting the same FireWire

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http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/


This runs on your Windows Me, 98, 95, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP machine with
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We've had several readers ask for an explanation of FireWire 800 and
its uses so here's a brief primer with some links to further, useful
reading. 


The latest Macs (and soon PC's) feature one of the fastest peripheral
standards ever developed - FireWire 800 (800Mbps - megabits per second)
or officially IEEE 1394b. The immediate use for this high speed bus is
in transferring large data files and for working with video and audio
production. 


It doubles the speed of the original FireWire standard (IEEE 1394 or
now FireWire 400) and the cable length can go out as far as 4.5 metres
with bog standard FW 800 cables  in further releases of FireWire
this will increase to 100 metres (sustaining 3200Mbps using glass fibre
cables) . and here's the tip. While initially this high-speed data
bus is going to be embraced by studio professionals for video and audio
work, the mainstream use of FireWire will likely come in the form of
very wide/high speed networks or non-traditional data connections . 


"IEEE 1394b's [FireWire 800's] road to success will probably not reach
its end soon. Despite the attempts of the USB Special Interest Group to
downplay Firewire's importance as being only a niche technology suited
for home-use and video-editing professionals, IEEE 1394b is far more
than a home network technology. Industries that need flexible and
powerful connection technology are very interested in IEEE 1394b.
Airplanes will be equipped with it, the automotive industry has already
shown an interest, and more and more computers will be equipped with a
1394b port." (http://it-enquirer.com/storage/ieee1394b.html) 


Unlike the Intel attempts at high-speed data buses, the FireWire
standard allows for full compatibility for all FireWire versions and
products on the FireWire bus. Put simply, If you have a Mac or PC with
FireWire 800 you can connect this directly to your computer and then
daisy-chain several (that's actually a total of 63) existing FireWire
(400) devices to this FireWire 800 hard drive and all peripherals will
operate at their maximum throughput. As many people have discovered
connecting a USB 1.0/1.1 peripheral onto a bus running USB 2.0 slows
every device connected to USB 1.1 speeds. 


Also FireWire allows individual devices to "talk" directly to each
other whereas with USB all communication is arbitrated by the CPU,
robbing both processing power and bandwidth. 


For all Intel's attempts to present USB 2.0 as an answer to FireWire,
basically USB 2.0 is never going to play on the same court as FireWire.
Already you can simultaneously connect one FireWire video camera to two
FireWire enabled computers, so expect to see FireWire becoming a
networking standard more than our traditional idea of a way to connect
peripherals. In the future, we'll think of peripherals (such as
external hard drives) as just being network devices  just like
other computers, video cameras, T

FW: OSX book.

[J Philippe Chaperon]

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Lloyd White wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a book on OSX ?
> Am currently using OS9.2.1 and need some advice. Or there may be a
> website
> that does that.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lloyd
>

Boffins in Hay Street and Angus & Robertson in Murray Street both have
great selections of MacOS X startup books. Rellim are also worth a look.

-- 
Peter Hinchliffe




Hi WAMUGgers,

In fact last week-end I saw 2 good books at a special price at Angus &
Robertson (city). Admittedly they covered OS X 10.1 (or .2), and not Jaguar.
But a good way to get solid information on the OS. Price, if I remember
well, were $20, and $40.

Regards,


Philippe C.

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CD Baby on iTunes Music Store

[Reg Whitely]

Interesting reading (from West Australian article today, p39 "Apple's 
core is aired" by ScuttleBytes)

http://www.gnutellanews.com/article/6830

Reg

Re: OSX book.

[Peter Sealy]

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Lloyd White wrote:


Can anyone suggest a book on OSX ?
Am currently using OS9.2.1 and need some advice. Or there may be a 
website

that does that.


I can recommend The Little Mac OS X Book by Robin Williams. But I don't 
know how updated it is. My version is for OS X 10.1. If it has been 
updated for Jaguar then it would be very good IMO.
There is heaps of info and advice on the web: email lists and web sites 
with guides and tutorials. Rather than clutter this list up with all of 
the references I have, let me know if you would like some and I will be 
happy to point you in the directions I have.

Cheers
.

Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA