Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Diana & Graham Stevens]

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet has 
been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on Friday 
that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF but 
it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival starts on 
the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is at his wits 
end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import it into In 
Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design to open it?

We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes Publisher. 
We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound hopeful) or 
Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be installed. We 
have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the Dark Side is a 
mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana

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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[wyvern]

Hi Diana,

do you have an option to save as PDF when you go to print?

Yvonne


On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF  
but it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival  
starts on the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is  
at his wits end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import  
it into In Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design  
to open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes  
Publisher. We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound  
hopeful) or Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be  
installed. We have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the  
Dark Side is a mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana

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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Robert Howells]

On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF but  
it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival starts on  
the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is at his wits  
end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import it into In  
Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design to  
open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes Publisher.  
We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound hopeful) or  
Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be installed.  
We have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the Dark Side is  
a mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana


Hi Diana ,

Well in Mac you can Print to PDF with a software " cups to PDF "
so I went searching with google with the phrase ...Print to PDF  
from Windows ...


This might help you  ... I have no idea what quality it produces , or  
whether you can print from Publisher to it





Bob

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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Reg Whitely]

You could save it a jpg on the PC then import to your Mac, open in  
Pages and save as pdf.


Reg

On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF but  
it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival starts on  
the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is at his wits  
end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import it into In  
Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design to  
open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes Publisher.  
We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound hopeful) or  
Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be installed.  
We have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the Dark Side is  
a mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana

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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Reg Whitely]

oops, in Pages, export as pdf, or for that matter open the jpg in any  
Mac image viewer software and select Print then print to pdf.


Reg

On 21/12/2008, at 6:30 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:

You could save it a jpg on the PC then import to your Mac, open in  
Pages and save as pdf.


Reg

On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF  
but it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival  
starts on the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is  
at his wits end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import  
it into In Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design  
to open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes  
Publisher. We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound  
hopeful) or Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be  
installed. We have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the  
Dark Side is a mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana

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Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Diana & Graham Stevens]

Thanks Yvonne, Bob & Reg for your suggestions.

I decided to install a PS Printer on the PC, just chose one at random 
from the list. Then I saved as a PS File, transferred to the Mac, 
opened it in Acrobat and Distiller then produced the PDF for me.


Two problems. First it is in Black & White. I presume I need to 
install a Colour PS Printer, just need to find a suitable one!


Second problem is the margins seem slightly different. This does not 
matter except the bottom of an advertisement is missing on the last 
page. I shall try to adjust it on the PC.


Thanks again and happy holidays!

Diana

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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Adrian Skehan]

I open the PPS file with Keynote and print it to PDF, the ones I have  
done always come out perfect for me.



Regards,

Adrian

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On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF but  
it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival starts on  
the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is at his wits  
end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import it into In  
Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design to  
open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes Publisher.  
We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound hopeful) or  
Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be installed.  
We have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the Dark Side is  
a mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana

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Re: DROBO - Storage Robot

[Mark Secker]

IMHO:

While the Drobo is probably the only example of how to do RAID for 
SOHO users right I , personally, would not consider it or any other 
RAID solution,  to be in any way shape or form a true "back up" 
device.


(I note that DROBO seem to go out of their way to avoid using the 
word "RAID" probably for marketing reasons due to RAIDS not always 
undeserved reputation of being ... "difficult"?
but software or hardware  implemented it perambulates and enunciates 
in the manner  of an anatidae)


Relying on recoverability via multiple redundancy of  may be great 
for keeping workflow on schedule or  close to schedule  if hardware 
(disk) failure occurs  but offers little in the way of protection 
from loss due to thing such as  malicious  damage, theft, fire, 
electrical spike/surges or just plain old dumb bad luck.
And,  unfortunately, my experience with RAID systems is that even 
experienced IT professionals will often ignore that first  disk 
failure waring (and even the second disk  failure waring in RAID 6's) 
and keep  working with the RAID in a degraded state... causing  total 
data loss in the event of any further disk failures.


and if you think you can't possibly lose multiple disks in  quick 
succession I can tell you it happens often enough to be a real risk. 
this year I had 3 drives (1 live and 2 backup disks) all fail with in 
3 days of each other.

the year before I had 2 drive fail (live and back up) the same day.

In both cases causing significant though not financially damaging data loss.

And that's just my personal experience and not even counting the 
multitude of server and user hard disks I've had to preform the last 
rights on as part of my 9-5 job.


Also though most data losses  that I've seen have been from simple 
disk failures the next most common cause, after user error (ie 
delete/format of data/drive),  has been willful/malicious deletion of 
data or damaging of drives by another party.


another of my main "objections" to the idea of a DROBO or other 
online RAID units being considered true backups is that by its nature 
data is spread across multiple disks making even off line disks 
removed from the DROBO (or RAID) and stored for backups  unreadable 
as single drive  in the event of the failure  or theft of the DROBO 
(or RAID controller) unit. and that by their nature as the computer 
access these disks via also a non direct path through the DROBO/RAID 
's proprietary controller rather than  through an industry standard 
controller (such as the disks built in ATA, SATA, etc)  data 
forensic and data recovery software when dealing with individual 
DROBO/RAID drives will have, at best, a difficult time recovering any 
usable data and most likely with SOHO grade Data recovery programs 
will not be able to recover any data at all.




I would still suggest that DROBO or no DROBO that  as a minimum you 
should possess  at least 2 media units each of sufficient size for 
backing up user data   and that these are used to create a rolling 
schedule  of  at least  one weekly (for SOHO) or at least one  every 
2 months (for purely personal systems) back up be made to a single 
unit media (disk)  and that unit stored off line and away from the 
computer (different room, or even better, different building) , the 
next scheduled backup goes on to the next media unit.   (and never 
use these units for storing anything other than backups)



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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Eugene]

Hi Diana,

you could try using this online free service www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp>


Haven't used it so can't guarantee it.

  Regards,
  Eugene


On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF  
but it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival  
starts on the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is  
at his wits end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import  
it into In Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design  
to open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes  
Publisher. We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound  
hopeful) or Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be  
installed. We have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the  
Dark Side is a mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana

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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Severin Crisp]

Another such service which I have used for Word Perfect (Windows) to  
Word (Mac) is Zamzar (www.zamzar.com/)   Fast and effective, handles  
many file types.

Severin Crisp

On 21/12/2008, at 8:23 PM, Eugene wrote:


Hi Diana,

you could try using this online free service 


Haven't used it so can't guarantee it.

 Regards,
 Eugene


On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF  
but it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival  
starts on the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is  
at his wits end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import  
it into In Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design  
to open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes  
Publisher. We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound  
hopeful) or Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be  
installed. We have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the  
Dark Side is a mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana

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Re: Anybody with surplus CD/DVD-rom from G4 Mac ?

[Charles Taylor]

Robert Howells wrote:

Hi Everybody ,

I could use a CD/DVD-Rom for the 2 grand kids G4 Digital Audio so they 
can view DVD's  !


Does anybody who has updated have one or 2 of these surplus ?


Thanks

Bob

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Hello Bob,

I have a box full of drives. You are welcome to two.

Charles Taylor

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Apple's future directions

[Paul Weaver]

There's an informative Fortune Magazine report about possible
contenders for the top job at Apple, 
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/20/after-steve-jobs-who-r
uns-apple/ 

Wishing everyone a safe Christmas,

Paul.


http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/calendar


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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 21/12/2008, at 6:06 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:

The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet  
has been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on  
Friday that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require  
a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF but  
it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival starts on  
the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is at his wits  
end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import it into In  
Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design to  
open it?




Quick answer - CutePDF (a search for CutePDF should bring it up  
quickly). You also need to download and install the accompanying  
Ghostscript application. It works well. You just print to CutePDF  
instead of the default printer.


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Re: DROBO - Storage Robot

[Ronda Brown]

Hello Mark,

Drobo does NOT use RAID.
"The Patent-Pending technology within Drobo is not RAID and was  
developed specifically to perform data management and configuration  
tasks automatically so that you don't have to. Drobo does utilise  
advanced storage concepts such as virtualization, but it is not a  
derivative of RAID."


Cheers,
Ronni

On 21/12/2008, at 8:20 PM, Mark Secker wrote:


IMHO:

While the Drobo is probably the only example of how to do RAID for  
SOHO users right I , personally, would not consider it or any other  
RAID solution,  to be in any way shape or form a true "back up"  
device.


(I note that DROBO seem to go out of their way to avoid using the  
word "RAID" probably for marketing reasons due to RAIDS not always  
undeserved reputation of being ... "difficult"?
but software or hardware  implemented it perambulates and enunciates  
in the manner  of an anatidae)


Relying on recoverability via multiple redundancy of  may be great  
for keeping workflow on schedule or  close to schedule  if hardware  
(disk) failure occurs  but offers little in the way of protection  
from loss due to thing such as  malicious  damage, theft, fire,  
electrical spike/surges or just plain old dumb bad luck.
And,  unfortunately, my experience with RAID systems is that even  
experienced IT professionals will often ignore that first  disk  
failure waring (and even the second disk  failure waring in RAID  
6's) and keep  working with the RAID in a degraded state... causing   
total data loss in the event of any further disk failures.


and if you think you can't possibly lose multiple disks in  quick  
succession I can tell you it happens often enough to be a real risk.  
this year I had 3 drives (1 live and 2 backup disks) all fail with  
in 3 days of each other.

the year before I had 2 drive fail (live and back up) the same day.

In both cases causing significant though not financially damaging  
data loss.


And that's just my personal experience and not even counting the  
multitude of server and user hard disks I've had to preform the last  
rights on as part of my 9-5 job.


Also though most data losses  that I've seen have been from simple  
disk failures the next most common cause, after user error (ie  
delete/format of data/drive),  has been willful/malicious deletion  
of data or damaging of drives by another party.


another of my main "objections" to the idea of a DROBO or other  
online RAID units being considered true backups is that by its  
nature data is spread across multiple disks making even off line  
disks removed from the DROBO (or RAID) and stored for backups   
unreadable as single drive  in the event of the failure  or theft of  
the DROBO (or RAID controller) unit. and that by their nature as the  
computer access these disks via also a non direct path through the  
DROBO/RAID 's proprietary controller rather than  through an  
industry standard controller (such as the disks built in ATA, SATA,  
etc)  data forensic and data recovery software when dealing with  
individual DROBO/RAID drives will have, at best, a difficult time  
recovering any usable data and most likely with SOHO grade Data  
recovery programs will not be able to recover any data at all.




I would still suggest that DROBO or no DROBO that  as a minimum you  
should possess  at least 2 media units each of sufficient size for  
backing up user data   and that these are used to create a rolling  
schedule  of  at least  one weekly (for SOHO) or at least one  every  
2 months (for purely personal systems) back up be made to a single  
unit media (disk)  and that unit stored off line and away from the  
computer (different room, or even better, different building) , the  
next scheduled backup goes on to the next media unit.   (and never  
use these units for storing anything other than backups)





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Re: HP Photosmart Studio

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 21/12/2008, at 10:24 AM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


Has anyone used this application.  Opinion?
Thank you
Merv

http://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/free/software/index.html
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also believe in order to see."




It will be used automatically by any HP digital device you install. As  
such, it offers no more nor less than similar products offered by  
other manufacturers - a quick and simple way to mange the digital  
images you acquire through your scanner or printer (with built-in card  
readers). I continue to use iPhoto with my digital cameras, but the  
Canon MP Navigator is fine for managing my scans without the worry of  
dumping unwanted stuff into iPhoto.


As far as it goes, Photosmart Studio works fine. It's up to you how  
much you want to commit to it.

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Re: Converting Microsoft Publisher to PDF

[Paul Kitchener]

Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:
The RSL Bowls Carnival is in WA this year and the program booklet has 
been produced in Microsoft Publisher


The printer, who has had the files since October, announced on Friday 
that they can not print from Microsoft Publisher and require a PDF.


The guy who produced the booklet attempted to export it to a PDF but 
it comes out all scrambled. He is in his 80s, the carnival starts on 
the 28th, there are only 3 days to get it done and he is at his wits 
end. We got a copy from him in the hope we could import it into In 
Design, but no go.


Does anyone know if there is a plug-in which will allow In Design to 
open it?


We can open the file on our PC because MS Office includes Publisher. 
We could save it as Unicode Text Files (doesn't sound hopeful) or 
Postscript, but this option requires a PS Printer to be installed. We 
have been Mac people since our first Fat Mac and the Dark Side is a 
mystery!


Can anyone make any suggestions about how we should proceed.

Seasons Greetings to all.

Diana



Hi Diana

PDFCreator is a free and Open Source PDF printer for Windows and works 
very nicely.


Cheers
Paul


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Re: HP Photosmart Studio

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Thanks Peter.  I think I will pass on HP Photosmart.
Merv



On 21/12/2008, at 10:24 AM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


Has anyone used this application.  Opinion?
Thank you
Merv

http://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/free/software/index.html
-- "Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we 
must also believe in order to see."




It will be used automatically by any HP digital device you install. 
As such, it offers no more nor less than similar products offered by 
other manufacturers - a quick and simple way to mange the digital 
images you acquire through your scanner or printer (with built-in 
card readers). I continue to use iPhoto with my digital cameras, but 
the Canon MP Navigator is fine for managing my scans without the 
worry of dumping unwanted stuff into iPhoto.


As far as it goes, Photosmart Studio works fine. It's up to you how 
much you want to commit to it.

--

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.





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AppleTV

[Malcolm McCallum]

Do wamug members have any views on AppleTV. My wife HATES wires - 
nearly the cause of divorce on occasions so I want to use Apple TV to  
show iPhoto,iView and Myspace etc. I am a little nervous about buying  
this time of year with January coming up. Any guidance gratefully  
received. Am aiming to buy an iTouch for 'er indoors at same time. :-)

Mac


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Re: AppleTV

[Dark1]

There's always the possibility of newer/cheaper models being released  
at Macworld Jan05 which really isn't all that far away but there isn't  
going to be anyone who can tell you with 100% certainty that what your  
after will or won't be updated at Macworld.


Ruben

Do wamug members have any views on AppleTV. My wife HATES wires - 
nearly the cause of divorce on occasions so I want to use Apple TV  
to show iPhoto,iView and Myspace etc. I am a little nervous about  
buying this time of year with January coming up. Any guidance  
gratefully received. Am aiming to buy an iTouch for 'er indoors at  
same time. :-)

Mac


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Re: AppleTV

[rkor...@iinet.net.au]

Hi Malcolm

I have had an Apple TV since it as released and love it :)

I would like more functions like a HD turner but that will come I think.  I am
not too sure about buying one right now though as it could be due for an update.

Regards

roger


On Mon Dec 22 14:03 , Malcolm McCallum  sent:

>Do wamug members have any views on AppleTV. My wife HATES wires - 
>nearly the cause of divorce on occasions so I want to use Apple TV to  
>show iPhoto,iView and Myspace etc. I am a little nervous about buying  
>this time of year with January coming up. Any guidance gratefully  
>received. Am aiming to buy an iTouch for 'er indoors at same time. :-)
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Re: Apple's future directions

[Dark1]

The information about different people who may be successors to Jobs  
is informative but the claims that Jobs will be leaving soon is just  
speculation.  There has been no indication from Apple that Jobs may be  
leaving any time soon and simply skipping a Macworld (which I believe  
is going to be the last one anyway) doesn't necessarily mean he has  
any intention of retirement.


When Jobs eventually does leave I think Apple is going to be in  
trouble.  For me it's just a question of how much trouble.


Ruben


There's an informative Fortune Magazine report about possible
contenders for the top job at Apple,
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/20/after-steve-jobs-who-r
uns-apple/

Wishing everyone a safe Christmas,

Paul.


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Re: DVI to Video adapter stopped working

[Dark1]

Thanks for the suggestion Brian.  I had already looked at the comments  
on the Australia Apple Store but following your suggestion I decided  
to look at the comments on the America Store also.  I found one  
comment that said your not supposed to hot-swap the adapter plug and  
one person had destroyed 3 new adapters before realising this.


So it looks like I'll have to get another adapter but I may as well  
wait till after Macworld since I'm planning on getting a new computer.


Ruben

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Re: Apple's future directions Apple TV

[Malcolm McCallum]

Thanks for the info everyone. Will wait until after Macworld
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On 22/12/2008, at 2:52 PM, Dark1 wrote:

The information about different people who may be successors to Jobs  
is informative but the claims that Jobs will be leaving soon is just  
speculation.  There has been no indication from Apple that Jobs may  
be leaving any time soon and simply skipping a Macworld (which I  
believe is going to be the last one anyway) doesn't necessarily mean  
he has any intention of retirement.


When Jobs eventually does leave I think Apple is going to be in  
trouble.  For me it's just a question of how much trouble.


Ruben


There's an informative Fortune Magazine report about possible
contenders for the top job at Apple,
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/20/after-steve-jobs- 
who-r

uns-apple/

Wishing everyone a safe Christmas,

Paul.


http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/calendar


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