Re: printing on a small Ethernet with 8.6 and 9.2
Tom If your printer is connected using localtalk (the twisted pair cable out of the printer port) then you simply need to download laser writer bridge from the Apple web site and install and configure on the G3. Tafter rebooting the G3, the iMacs should see the printer in the Chooser. Obviously the G3 will have to be switched on for this to work. If your printer is connected in some other way I'm afraid I can't think of a solution. No - it's a parallel connection into a USB at the computer endperhaps i should advertise for a copy of 9.X OS and install that on the G3... T Tom Lewis, in beautiful Jervis Bay, NSW, Oz
Limitations on Converting to PDF in OS X?
I've been turning text and other documents (e.g. web pages) into PDFs on my iBook for portability reasons (I'm a Mac user working in a cold Windoze world) and have noticed that the 'Save as PDF' feature in OS X can't handle more than about 50 pages of text. In the case of, say, a 186 page plain text document what you see when you open up the resulting PDF version is a perfect PDF copy of the original up to page 51 -- with the last two lines or so of text garbled -- and then just blank pages for the last 135 pages or so. Has anyone else seen this? Is this a bug, or could it be a deliberate limitation on Apple's part so as not to cut into Adobe's commercial product sales? Any solutions? I'm running 10.3.2, 640Mb RAM. R.K.
2.5 HDD
Hiya I have been using a LaCie 6GB pocket drive that has died on me. Can anyone give me prices on a new drive - the casing is fine. Reckon I am looking at a minimum of 40GB for a 2.5 drive. Many thanks Angus
RE: Limitations on Converting to PDF in OS X?
Good point. Just created two brand new PDFs from two separate 186 page and 81 page plain text documents. Opened them both up with Preview ... no problems ... I can see all the pages perfectly. Opened them up with Adobe Reader 6.0 ... it can only see first 51 pages of each and in both cases the last two lines on page 51 are garbled. Curious. Adobe Reader 6.0 opens up all other PDF documents (i.e. created by others) that are well in excess of these sizes. I've just tried it. It just can not recognise more than 51 pages in a PDF document created via the print menu in OS X ... at least on my particular setup. Any ideas? I did a clean install of everything a week or so ago. Only thing I can think of is maybe my Adobe Reader 6.0 is corrupted ... but then why will it open up other PDFs on this machine ... and why always a 51 page limitation with the last two lines of text garbled on page 51? R.K. -Original Message- From: James Devenish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2004 10:18 AM To: Kay, Richard Subject: Re: Limitations on Converting to PDF in OS X? Hi, In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:55:08AM +0800, Kay, Richard wrote: In the case of, say, a 186 page plain text document what you see when you open up the resulting PDF version is a perfect PDF copy of the original up to page 51 -- with the last two lines or so of text garbled -- and then just blank pages for the last 135 pages or so. Has anyone else seen this? I've not observed this problem. Out of curiosity: have you tried any other documents? Have you compared viewing the PDF in Preview and Adobe Acrobat Reader?
RE: Limitations on Converting to PDF in OS X?
Many thanks to Yvonne and James Devenish for playing around with my 'corrupted' files earlier this morning and for experimenting and creating their own files to test the problem. Looks like the 51 page limitation (or bug) I reported earlier arises ONLY when creating PDF files using TextEdit and reading the PDF file using either Adobe Reader 5.0 or 6.0. The 51 page limitation (or bug) does not appear to arise when creating PDF files using, for example, AppleWorks or M$Word (Office X) and reading the PDF file using either Adobe Reader 5.0 or 6.0. This appears to be another one of those curious little twists in this 10 dimensional universe of ours. I hope I've made sound inferences there ... I have consumed so much coffee this morning in preparation for tonight's webcast that I'm not sure I am thinking straight ... but I'm looking forward to an orgy of new low-cost iPods in the wee hours tomorrow morning ... maybe the release of iWrite ... wondering what GarageBand actually does ... and wonder whether I'll be able to afford to upgrade my Toyota Echo to a Hilux Ute and start saving again before Apple releases its liquid-cooled G4 iBooks ... a ... speculation ... speculation. R.K. -Original Message- From: Kay, Richard Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2004 9:55 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Limitations on Converting to PDF in OS X? I've been turning text and other documents (e.g. web pages) into PDFs on my iBook for portability reasons (I'm a Mac user working in a cold Windoze world) and have noticed that the 'Save as PDF' feature in OS X can't handle more than about 50 pages of text. SNIP Is this a bug, or could it be a deliberate limitation on Apple's part so as not to cut into Adobe's commercial product sales? SNIP
Re: Limitations on Converting to PDF in OS X? - Acrobat Reader
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:57:59PM +0800, Kay, Richard wrote: Many thanks to Yvonne and James Devenish for playing around with my 'corrupted' files earlier this morning and for experimenting and creating their own files to test the problem. Looks like the 51 page limitation (or bug) I reported earlier arises ONLY when creating PDF files using TextEdit and reading the PDF file using either Adobe Reader 5.0 or 6.0. We tried various other applications and found that it was only TextEdit that led to trouble, and the trouble was only seen with Adobe's Reader. I tried versions from 3 through 6 under a variety of operating systems and CPU architectures. All failed to display the document correctly yet emitted no diagnostic messages. On a technical level, it seems that Acrobat Reader (and no other software) silently fails to decode the 'deflated' stream contents of some pages. If I replace the inner binary stream of one page with that of another, the page displays fine (implying that the graphics environment is okay). The 51 page limitation (or bug) does not appear to arise when creating PDF files using, for example, AppleWorks or M$Word (Office X) and reading the PDF file using either Adobe Reader 5.0 or 6.0. I also found that is possible to 'refactor' TextEdit's PDFs losslessly (convert from PDF to PDF) so that Acrobat Reader can display them. (Note, though, that extracting individual pages out of the original PDF does not improve the situation.) Although I suspect a long-standing bug in Acrobat Reader's decompression code, or perhaps an intolerance to a compression error from which all other decoders can recover, I have no idea how that would be related to a 51-page phenomenon.
people should be more up to date than.....
this http://www.macgeeks.com/ ignore to 2004 date time stamp on the top right side and check out the last modified date in small print on the bottom... then flick to the reviews page were they give a run down on...VPC version 2!! (VPC is up to 6.2) and awmygawd!!! a syquest drive... do we rememberwhat syquest drives are kiddies? Yes, they were what your mommy and your daddy used to use not long after they stopped using double density floppy disks ;) was trying to remember this site http://www.applegeeks.com/ (the current home page is where , in case your wondering , the main character - a collage student - is trying think of ways to raise enough funds to buy a Mac G5) -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ present day present time
Re: (Was) Office Weirdness (Now) Extracting Old Messages
Nathalie Two resources for you to use in addition to WAMUG are the M$ newsgroups at news://msnews.microsoft.com and the Entourage Help Page at http://www.entourage.mvps.org/ Good luck Greg From: Nathalie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5 Jan 2004 14:21:57 - To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: (Was) Office Weirdness (Now) Extracting Old Messages Hello All: Just a note to say thanks for all responses and here is what worked: 1. I created another user and attempted to open the Office programs from there. They opened. Therefore it was most likely to be my Identity in office which is accessed by all office programs. 2, I deleted the identity in my profile and the programs worked. I was able to re-import my address book and calendar items as I had the foresight (gained from years of making mistakes) to back up my data before coming on this trip. However... The back up I made of my messages (my database within my identity) still doesn't work when I try to open it with Entourage (or when I try to import that file into other email clients, like Mail). I didn't realise this would be an issue. When backing up I should have saved each message as it's own file--outside of the email client, but I did not. Any ideas about how I can extract my messages from this 120 MB Database file which seems to be corrupted? If I can't do it I will have to live with the loss, but I would rather not. Nathalie -- Mrs Nathalie Collins Box A176, Australind WA 6233 AUSTRALIA Tel Fax: (+61) 8 9796 0509 Mobile: (+61) 43 989 1998 -- An unexamined life is not worth living --Socrates -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com
Re: people should be more up to date than.....
and awmygawd!!! a syquest drive... do we rememberwhat syquest drives are kiddies? Yes, they were what your mommy and your daddy used to use not long after they stopped using double density floppy disks ;) I still have a fair bit of SyQuest stuff around here... whenever I have my semi annual cleanups around here, some of it gets chucked. SyQuest stuff and floppy disks are sort of like nuclear contamination...there's a half life, and it takes thousands of years for it to vanish to an unnoticeable level. Phil -- -- Sent from the Apple PowerBook G4 of: Phillip McGree Web: http://www.phil.net.au Perth, Western Australiahttp://www.perthcomedy.com Mobile Phone: 0418 922 500 Macs for sale - new and secondhand http://www.themacshack.com.au Disclaimer: This transmission is intended for people that have functioning eyesight and literacy. If you have no eyesight, or can't read, please disregard this email. Thank you.
Re: people should be more up to date than.....
On 6/1/04 4:26 PM, Phillip McGree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SyQuest stuff and floppy disks are sort of like nuclear contamination...there's a half life, and it takes thousands of years for it to vanish to an unnoticeable level. Very good Phil, I had quit a chuckle at your comparison. Ken W
Broadband - iiNet?
Hi WAMUGers I have been away for the last 6 months and have just re-subscribed. I am considering upgrading my dial up connection to Broadband. I am looking at iiNet's Blink 512 lite. I have searched your archives and found a warning from Matthew H against iiNet. Any advice regarding Braodband/Mac/iiNet etc would be gratefully appreciated please. I have been with iiNet since they were in a garage in Hillarys and would like to stay with them if possible. Ta Rod Blitvich -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/k12/aee/bios/homepage.html http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html --- Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have.
Re: Limitations on Converting to PDF in OS X?
Curiosity got the better of me as well. Created a 166 page pdf document from a BBEdit text document. The newly created pdf document opened and displayed all pages just fine in Acrobat Reader 6 and Preview 2.1 Using OS X 10.3.2 David Watkins http://members.iinet.net.au/~davwat/
Yo-Yo
Hi, I am being given a laptop... no idea of the details other than he only has the one power supply for the two laptops and I'm not getting that. I have been told I need to get me a Yo-Yo AC Power Adapter 45W 24V Model number M5474. Can anyone help got a spare for sale or know where I can pick one up without it costing me an arm and a leg? thanks Yvonne
