Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Hawkins
Thank you to all who replied so promptly. I had been tearing my hair out: print gave me extraneous material and links wand was not an accurate reproduction of the page; PDF gave the same result; Grab meant that the page wouldn't fit on an A4 page; but the winner was . Ronni. Command - Shift

Re: Epson inks

2010-03-17 Thread John Daniels
Hi all Further to my query, today I had this advice from Epson Australia: The ink cartridge marked For use in Asis/Pacific are the correct in cartridge which you should be purchasing in Australia. The ink cartridges marked For use in Taiwan are what's called Grey Imports, which have been

Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Bill Parker
And also a thankyou to Ronni from somebody who frequently needs to capture a quick shot of something but wasn't really looking. Excellent tip! Bill On 17/03/2010, at 1:55 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thank you to all who replied so promptly. I had been tearing my hair out: print gave

Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Eugene
Hi Ronni, yep that is the option in Firefox 3.6, you can place all of the elements (URLs included) in the header, footer and select left, middle or right. Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Merv Bond
Check it out Ronda. The pages that I have saved in this manner have their URL and name as a header. Merv Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Merv, A PDF will not give Michael the URL at the top. He requires the URL (Address). Michael is best to take a Screen Shot of the page in question. To take a

Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Merv, Yes, they do … BUT … what Michael required was an exact 'Live picture' of the webpage, as it is displayed. The PDF only shows a 'Print' PDF, not the exact webpage as it is viewed. I am not at liberty to explain to you why Michael required this. Cheers, Ronni On 17/03/2010, at

G3 iMac

2010-03-17 Thread Severin Crisp
My G3 iMac is now travelling on its way to a new home. Thanks for all the interest, great that there are so many good people looking to put what is otherwise scrap to very good uses. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R

Snow leopard - printer driver HP1220C

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Murray
Hi experts I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on two of our four Macs (and even paid for a family pack to do so...smug look ;-) But my A3 printer HP1220C (connected to my 24 iMac, 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) has been effectively crippled by the gutenberg drivers...it runs, but it's very

Time Capsule - one mac can't see it, three can.

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Murray
Hi experts (again) I've recently bought and installed a 2 TB time capsule. I managed to create a new network and (after a few teething issues) now all four Macs in the house are happily working off the new network. 2 Macs are on Snow Leopard, 2 are on Leopard. Three of the four macs are

Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Houghton
Also, as I mentioned, don't forget the Grab application that Apple provides in the Utilities folder - not only does it mean that an old bloke like me doesn't have to remember the various key combos for the different screenshots, it also offers a timed screen capture - not that I've had need of

Re: Time Capsule - one mac can't see it, three can.

2010-03-17 Thread Ronda Brown
On 17/03/2010, at 3:58 PM, Mike Murray wrote: Hi experts (again) I've recently bought and installed a 2 TB time capsule. I managed to create a new network and (after a few teething issues) now all four Macs in the house are happily working off the new network. 2 Macs are on Snow

Re: Time Capsule - one mac can't see it, three can.

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Murray
Thanks Ronni That's my dilemma...what's different? On the 4th mac, I've got airport utility 5.5 and it has the message Airport Utility was unable to find any Airport wireless devices...etc. Rescanning doesn't reveal anything And of course it works fine on the others. Just looking at the

Re: Time Capsule - one mac can't see it, three can.

2010-03-17 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Mike, I wouldn't think the different Airport Extreme card would be the problem here as the iMac is reaching the Time Capsule fine and connecting to the Network. In System Preferences Time Machine, have you tried clicking on Select Disk does Data on Time Capsule show? You might need to

Re: Time Capsule - one mac can't see it, three can.

2010-03-17 Thread Daniel Kerr
Trying installing the airpot software that comes with the time capsule. It will Update the software to version to a newer one which should help resolve some problems. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone in the car --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email:

Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 17/03/2010, at 4:12 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Also, as I mentioned, don't forget the Grab application that Apple provides in the Utilities folder - not only does it mean that an old bloke like me doesn't have to remember the various key combos for the different screenshots, it also

Re: Printing a webpage

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Fuller
Thanks for that wonderful information Peter. That's my new thing learned today. Cheers Mike Fuller On 18/03/2010, at 8:04 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: Grab is also part of the Preview application, and can be found under File Take Screen Shot (at least it is in Snow Leopard - the exact

Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi People, After Peter's comments about Preview, I felt perhaps some people are unaware of what a very good application Preview is. Quite some time ago Kirk McElhearn, Macworld published this article. In the original document there are a couple of images, which I have excluded due to WAMUG

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Houghton
Just to add to this one thing which has changed in the latest version (since Snow Leopard, I think) - it confused me for a while until I learnt about how the change worked (can¹t remember now where I read it): It used to be that to add/copy pages from one pdf to another (or even, as Kirk notes,

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Hawkins
Preview is problematic on my computer, because frequently a grey screen is all that is displayed when I open something in Preview. However, by using Print command in Preview the item I have opened will print. I haven't been disciplined enough to not what does and what does not behave this way -

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Hawkins
Whoops, forgot to say OS 10.6.2 MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Preview is problematic on my computer, because frequently a grey screen is all that is displayed when I open something in Preview. However, by using Print command in Preview the item I have opened will print. I haven't been

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Susan Hastings
Sounds like the innocuous name 'Preview' aught to go! This is now so much more! On 18/03/2010, at 10:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Just to add to this one thing which has changed in the latest version (since Snow Leopard, I think) - it confused me for a while until I learnt about how the

Re: Mov to Avi converter

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Griffiths
I have just completed a Powerpoint presentation for a client with a lovely video at the front and back of the presentation. The client uses PCs and can't see the video because they are Quicktime movies. I have to convert them to AVI apparently. Is there a decent converter out there that

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Secker
LOL .. While we¹re on ³preview bash² mode (though I think preview is quite a remarkable but unappreciated program)... It used to be useful and usable as a very easy/small footprint slide show program.. Now with version 4 it doesn¹t loop, plays once then stops. Also it will frequently crash on

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Michael, Something is wrong with your Preview Application. First try moving the preference file. Quit Preview, move the com.apple.preview.plist file out of /Users/username/Library/Preferences/ to the Desktop, relaunch Preview, and open an image file. If it still won't display correctly

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Mark, Preview is version 5.0.1 now in Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.2 Cheers, Ronni On 18/03/2010, at 10:59 AM, Mark Secker wrote: LOL .. While we’re on “preview bash” mode (though I think preview is quite a remarkable but unappreciated program)... It used to be useful and usable as a very

RE: Mov to Avi converter

2010-03-17 Thread Alan Smith
Chris Griffiths said Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:45 AM I have just completed a Powerpoint presentation for a client with a lovely video at the front and back of the presentation. The client uses PCs and can't see the video because they are Quicktime movies. I have to convert them to AVI

Re: Mov to Avi converter

2010-03-17 Thread Ronda Brown
On 18/03/2010, at 10:45 AM, Chris Griffiths wrote: I have just completed a Powerpoint presentation for a client with a lovely video at the front and back of the presentation. The client uses PCs and can't see the video because they are Quicktime movies. I have to convert them to AVI

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Secker
To the best of my recollection most (all?) of these same issues still occurred on my (now stolen) 10.6 configured MacBook. On 18/03/10 11:07 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Mark, Preview is version 5.0.1 now in Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.2 Cheers, Ronni

RE: Mov to Avi converter

2010-03-17 Thread Crisp, Peter
At the risk of undermining Alan's advice, Handbrake is a good freebie file convertor with multiple file type management - it works a treat on my PC - if you get forced down that road of file conversion. Regards Peter. From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au

video out of focus

2010-03-17 Thread John Daniels
Hi everyone I have had a commercial video sent to me in mpg format from USA and the pictures are out of focus. I have requested and had 2 replacement videos and both are also out of focus. I have opened them with VLC, Quicktime and iTunes, also on Power PC, Intel and on a Windows machine