Quark 4.11 and exporting to PDF
Hi, I have problem with using Quark to export documents to PDF. G4 768Mb OS9.2, Quark 4.11, Acrobat 5.05. It used to work fine. When the xtention is used it will fire up the distiller which will create a .PS file. Distiller then hangs - force quit, Quark frozen - force quit. Back to the finder but no .PDF file just the .PS. Restarting the G4 will cause it to freeze but after it has processed the shut down the finder I think, because rebooting does not initiate disk first aid. In the trash is a Rescued Items folder and in that a Distiller folder with the .PDF file - which is fine! I have trashed prefences, re-installed Acrobat, used a different distiller PPD file and disk warriored. Any ideas? Gordo
In time for Xmas!!
I could put this baby on LayBy for Xmas (Its only about $26,000 AUD - just as weel the dollar is strong at the moment!) http://www.go-1.com/monitors/grand_canyon/features/index.htm
Re: Re: In time for Xmas!!
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:40, Gordon Morris wrote: I could put this baby on LayBy for Xmas (Its only about $26,000 AUD - just as well the dollar is strong at the moment!) http://www.go-1.com/monitors/grand_canyon/features/index.htm Unless someone broke the url or you've been conned, all I get is world wager rubbish... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18 - E128:45'05 (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au Your right Onno an L not a One http://www.go-l.com/monitors/grand_canyon/features/index.htm Gordo
Re: Re: In time for Xmas!!
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:40, Gordon Morris wrote: I could put this baby on LayBy for Xmas (Its only about $26,000 AUD - just as well the dollar is strong at the moment!) http://www.go-1.com/monitors/grand_canyon/features/index.htm Unless someone broke the url or you've been conned, all I get is world wager rubbish... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18 - E128:45'05 (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au Your right Onno an L not a One http://www.go-l.com/monitors/grand_canyon/features/index.htm Gordo
RE: Problem using external FW CD burner?
Mark Toast lite for OS9.2 - will not work in classic Toast Titanium 5.x for OSX. There is a freeware osx/unix via versiontracker xcdroast. It needs X11 to work in ands therefore doesnt use a nice aqua gui. Gordo
RE: Re-install OSX?
-Original Message- From: Shane Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 30 April 2003 2:41 AM To: Frank Salleo; Wamug Subject: Re: Re-install OSX? No, I couldn't access the control panel because I didn¹t have a OS9 CD and the OSX CD does not allow the access. Best if I get a 9 CD for the future as well as Disk Warrior, have been advised that this also assists the system to find the actual System Folders. On 28/4/03 20:35, Frank Salleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try the startup disc control panel? I have fixed OSX 10.2.3 with the same symptoms after a classic crash. The systems were visible in startup disc when started up from a 9.2 CD. Setting the OSX system and restarting worked. Frank On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 04:01 AM, Shane Webster wrote: Hi all, An interesting situation yesterday that seemed to have no fix but to re-install OSX. Running G4 Mirrored Door, OSX.5, Classic. I needed to use a software app in Classic, so I restarted through the System Preferences. All was fine, used the app, then it stalled. Had to push the power button and turn off. Upon restart the system could not find any operating systems (Flashing question mark within folder icon). I went through System Manager and the like, troubleshooted via the Apple website, tried the lot. Repaired disk and verified everything using Disk Tools on the OSX CD. No luck. Had to re-install OSX, then the subsequent upgrades to get back to .5. I have also had to re-install several updates, patches, etc, just to get back to normal. Any ideas or something I should have tried that I have over-looked. Thanks Shane __ Frank Salleo Environmental Science Technical Supervisor Murdoch University Phone 9360 2623 Perth Fax 9310 4997 Western Australia __ I have had similar problems in getting classic/OS9 to work on a HD that didn't have OS9 HD driver's installed when it was first initialised. I copied across a working System Folder to the root. OSX start disk control panel would allow me to select the OS9 system to reboot. Here's the thing. If there are no OS9 HD drivers you will get a flashing ? On a folder. Reboot and hold the option/alt key to get to boot manager will only offer to boot to OS9. Booting from an OS9 CD won't help it can't see the HD - no HD drivers! Youcan initialize it though - pass! Booting form OSX CD just shows that everything is there and you can run utilities on the HD but when you choose reboot the CD tells you to hold down the option/alt key at reboot to pick your OS. Circular. The solution - open firmware and tell it boot from your OSX bootloader(?) Reboot hold option/alt,cmd,O,F keys - like a concert pianist. Release when the firmware opens. Type at the prompt Boot hd:,\system\library\coreservices\bootx Press enter The slashes could go the non-unix way. Your OSX capable Mac will boot into X Of course a complete rebuild is required if you want to boot into OS9 and there are no HD drivers - unless someone knows how add them as an afterthought? Gordo -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: iMac Firmware Upgrade
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 09:51 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Guys I have just wiped my brow after sweating bullets for a week after attempting to install OSX on a 2000 iMac without updating the Firmware first. (idiot) When a working iMac becomes one that turns on without boot chimes, no internal monitor and then turns itself off, I felt as sick as a parrot. No reseting the PRAM, removing the battery, holding the programmers key would fix it. Hints from Rod at Apple Mt Hawthorn set me on a tortuous path. The three necessary items - an external monitor, a HD with OS9x installed on it and another iMac. Basically I swapped the logic boards and OS9 HD into the working iMac - downloaded Firmware 2.4, installed it with everything crossed put the boards back and now everything is sweet. Thank God. Gordo Why did you need to swap the logic boards? You should just be able to boot the machine with the external monitor and run the firmware update. I mentioned the procedure on the WAMUG list earlier this year for Meg Travers, and it worked for her. Shay, That was part of the tortuous path - the damaged board in the original iMac would not boot at all. It would start then turn off with an external monitor. I could not get to OS9 to run the firmware updater. I could not get it to boot from CD, start in Target mode or open the firmware with OPT-CMD-O-F. It was stuffed and Apple was saying a replacement logic board was the way out. So I swapped boards to see if that were the case. The damaged board with an OSX HD in the second iMac would boot but only with an external monitor and the firmware has to be run on OS9.x, setting the OSX HD to boot to OS9 just stuffed it again - I suppose because changing the Start Disk changes the Boot ROM? Anyway I changed the OSX HD with a vanilla OS9 HD - ran firmware 2.4 and it got through. I don't know the exact science but I'm wearing a cheesy grin. Gordo
iMac Firmware Upgrade
Guys I have just wiped my brow after sweating bullets for a week after attempting to install OSX on a 2000 iMac without updating the Firmware first. (idiot) When a working iMac becomes one that turns on without boot chimes, no internal monitor and then turns itself off, I felt as sick as a parrot. No reseting the PRAM, removing the battery, holding the programmers key would fix it. Hints from Rod at Apple Mt Hawthorn set me on a tortuous path. The three necessary items - an external monitor, a HD with OS9x installed on it and another iMac. Basically I swapped the logic boards and OS9 HD into the working iMac - downloaded Firmware 2.4, installed it with everything crossed put the boards back and now everything is sweet. Thank God. Gordo
RE: Essential reading, although off topic
Here, here -Original Message- From: Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 January 2003 8:00 PM To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Essential reading, although off topic I thoroughly agree!! It is happening too often! Bob At 7:52 PM 23/1/03, Adrian Skehan wrote: Personally I find it offensive that this list should be used for political purposes. AS. On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 15:50 Australia/Perth, Michael Hawkins wrote: Song Sheet Sung to the tune of If you're happy and you know it -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: Watching DVDs with a data projector
-Original Message- From: Trevor Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 14 January 2003 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Watching DVDs with a data projector --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phillip Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all and hope you managed some sort of break (holiday variety) over the new years. I'm looking for advice on watching DVDs (from a DVD player, not a PC/Mac) via a projector compared to widescreen tv Hi Phil, Whilst not directly answering your query, before you commit to buying one, it may be worth renting one for a day and testing it out in the place you are intending to place one. The reason for this, is that projectors are useless in rooms with a lot of light, so this way, you know for sure what it will look like. The last thing you want to do is pay $5000+ for something you can only use at night time. I have no idea of their rate, but Hire Intelligence hire a number of different models. http://www.hireintelligence.com.au Hope its some help Regards Trevor Lee Apparently there is a difference in the globe life between data projectors and video projectors. Therefore look at the cost and rate of globe replacement - I gather that the globes can be quite expensive, about 25% of the unit's purchase price. Gordo
RE: Usb storage device
-Original Message- From: Sojourn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 January 2003 3:46 PM To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Usb storage device I have seen these little plugin storage devices that go into a usb port in computer mags. Called flash drives or something like that. Would these work to transfer files from a windows to a mac machine? Where can you buy them? You can burn cds but that time consuming and wasteful if you need to move files often. My daughter has her book on the pc in her room, but can only access the internet [one user adsl] on the mac. Yes, I guess you could network ...but ten miles of blue cable from one room to another ...and I HAVE NO CLUE HOW ..and my dodgy PC might corrupt my nice imac. -- Rosemary Horton Rosemary, These thumb drives work well on PC with Windows 2000 and XP. Windows 9x needs to have drivers installed first (of course!). You can format them as well. So if you did that (format) first on your PC and plugged it into the mac, the mac should see it as a PC disk. Drag and drop. I think I have seen Keith Palmer advertise these - but the going price is about $1/megabyte from most PC shops. Gordo
LCII power supply
Hey people, I'm looking for a PS for the above machine. The current PS is a long and rectangular with TDK badging. Willing to pay for it of course :-) Yours Gordo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: Problems sending Outlook Express to Exchange 5.5 (Mac to Windows)
If you are connected to Exchange system and using OS 9.2 or older why not use the Outlook client? http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/outlook2001/outlook2001.asp?navindex=s13d It is nearly 10Mb in size though. Gordo -Original Message- From: Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 16 December 2002 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems sending Outlook Express to Exchange 5.5 (Mac to Windows) Hoping someone can shed some light on what's going on when I send attachments from my home based iMac (using Outlook Express 5.02) to fellow employeeson the corporate network. The corporate network uses Outlook Exchange Server 5.5. I've tried various methods of sending the attachments - all at once and individually. I've also tried different attachments, eg. doc, xls, and tif files. Sending the xls file separately is the only one that seemed to work, but, if you read on, I think that has more to do with the particular content rather than the fact that it's an xls file. I might be wrong there though. I also tried sending the same multiple attachments after changing the default 'AppleDouble' encoding in Outlook Express to 'Windows (MIME/Base64)', but that didn't seem to make any difference. Another clue. I converted the Word (doc) file to an rtf, and that worked okay. At the other end, the body of the email received reads... --- The Microsoft Exchange Server received an Internet message that could not be processed. To view the original message content, open the attached message. --- The attachments that have been sent as various documents from my end have been converted and received at the other end as a message.txt attachment, which when opened appears to have the text of my original documents but in anASCII form, all formatting lost, and all lumped into one file. I came across the following article at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;270614 - PRB: Exchange Server 5.5 Rejects POP3 Messages in Base64 The information in this article applies to: € Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 € Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 € Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 This article was previously published under Q270614 SYMPTOMS If you submit a message that has a Base64 body part to Exchange versions 5.5 and earlier by using Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), and the body part contains extraneous characters after the termination sequence, you may receivethe following error message even if the extraneous characters are otherwise valid: The Microsoft Exchange Server received an Internet message that could not be processed. To view the original message content, open the attached message. message.txt CAUSE Exchange only accepts Base64 encodings that are multiples of 4 in size. Theextraneous characters cause the encoding size to not be a multiple of 4, so Exchange rejects the encoding. RESOLUTION Do not append extra characters to the end of a Base64 sequence that is submitted to Exchange. STATUS This behavior is by design. - Is there something simple that I can do at my end, or my employer can do attheir end, that avoids this problem? I'd be most grateful for any tips. Regards...Steven If you are connected to Exchange system and using OS 9.2 or older why not use the Outlook client? http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/outlook2001/outlook2001.asp?navindex=s13d It is nearly 10Mb in size though. Gordo
Re: Harvey Norman HP printer
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 04:03 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Another point no one has mentioned: It pays to check out the price of the in carts before you buy the printer. HP carts cost in the range of $70-90 each. Compare this to Epson carts at around $40-50. Admittedly, you won;t find anything anywhere comparing the capacity of the carts, but it makes me think twice about buying cheap printers if the next time around I'll need to shell out twice the money just for replacement ink carts. HP cartridges include a new print head, so if your print head is clogged up you can just replace the cartridge and you get a nice new one. Epson cartridges don't contain a new head, and thus your print head can get clogged if you don't use it regularly and then require unclogging. Hence, HP cartridges are more expensive. Have fun, Shay Further to the whole debate. Epson's are lovely while they work - send you bald when they don't (pull ya hair out). As Shay said you don't get a new print head with every cartridge and an Epson service is 80% of the purchase price. The print cartridges supplied with new HP printers are 25% full - it is taster to get you consuming. I have heard that Lexmark have had a sales campaign in the US - buy four printer cartridges and get a free printer. Printer ink wholesales for about $60-$70 per litre I was told by a mate in the printer cartridge refill game. Sending beautifully rendered PDFs electronically can save you some money can't it? Gordo
Re: 10.2 Address Book/Mail
Rod Entourage 2001 will export contacts as .vcf which can be imported into Mail. However your distribution lists won't come in, you need to recreate them. The best way I found of doing that is to drag the original contact from the group to a desktop folder (the alias in the list won't work). Then you create your group in Address Book and import the desktop folder contents to it. The only blob is that you will have duplicate entries in the All group. Gordo On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 08:13 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Folks Is there any reason to consider using Mail and Address Book from 10.2 INSTEAD of Entourage X? I don't seem to be able to import my contacts from Entourage. Ta Rod -- (o o) *===ooO-(_)-Ooo=* | Rod BLITVICH LT Coordinator Balcatta Senior High School | | Chair STAWA Electronic Communications Committee | | Amy and Sam's Dad | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stawa.asn.au | *===* | | | Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. | | | *===ooO=Ooo=* -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Gordon, Ali and Ryan Morris
10.2
iMac 400Mhz G3 320Mb 9.2.1=10.2 installed without a cough and probably faster than reading Shay's full description on his install exploits ;-) (I am a slow reader) External firewire HD worked HPDJ930C worked. Ridiculously easy! Gordo
