Print Spooler? Now we are getting technical beyond my capacity. This is a google on print spooler: http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=%22Print%20Spooler%22 and I, for one, have no patience reading this "stuff" (sorry to label it as "stuff" but it's "stuff"). Maybe some day... . Anyhoo, as Hugh says, I looked into my system and find no reference to print spooler or printspooler ... like it doesn't exist here. Yet, just fooling around with RoughDraft, it seems to work well ... and since I already had WordWeb installed (I recommend that to the group too), the dictionary/thesaurus and spellcheck work fine; absolutely no problem. ... and now back to sleep; what am I doing up 6:30 in the morning!
First I'll repeat my follow-up QUESTION ... what's the purpose of having two different kinds of quotes: curly quotes (or smart quotes) and straight quotes? Again, on my system, it's the straight quotes that work best in GeoCities ... Harold > From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" (Clint) > Regarding "RoughDraft" you mentioned......FYI, unfortunately there's an issue > with it. For one, it won't open unless you have the Print Spooler running. > This is rather ridiculous. That service takes up a lot of memory and only > needs to be running if you are printing something. I have mine set to > "Manual" and it only comes on when I need to print something. "Manual" was > not enough for this program and you have to set it to "Automatic" so it will > be running in the background all the time. So if anyone tries it and gets > the error message when trying to execute it, you have to go into "Services" > and start the Print Spooler and put it to "Automatic". > > I installed "WordWeb" and the "Dictionary" still doesn't work. It still says > you "must install WordWeb" for the dictionary to work! "Spell check Word" > appears to be really flaky and doesn't work all the time. "Spell check from > cursor" works, but you have to move your cursor to the top of the text for > everything to be spell checked. Looks like it would be a nice replacement > for WordPad though since it does have some (limited) spell checker functions. > - -Clint > From: "David Grossman" > I tried it, based on Harold's recommendation. It does have some nifty > features for writers, such as links to useful sites and a conversion tool > from smart quotes to straight quotes. Each file is saved with up to four > "pads" for those irrelevant but important brainstorms that occur while > writing. > > Those are good ideas, and there are others. I would be happy to use it and > then export the final product to Word for printing. > > I'd also like to mention two annoying bugs. > > 1. It does not have an export feature to Word. It exports to RTF. That means > that N-dashes and M-dashes are converted to regular (shorter) dashes. Tables > are not exported properly. Editors, or those who publish to the web will not > be happy with those limitations. An export option to ANY Windows version of > Word would handle those issues. > > 2. Shortcuts are different from those in Word. Word's Control-W becomes > Rough Draft's Control-Q. Not a major problem, you say? Perhaps, but if you > have to stop and think which word processor you are using, you can lose your > train of thought. That's a major problem for a writer. > > I'd recommend it for a beginning writer whomightbeintimidatedbyWord. > However, as he becomes more proficient and wants to use Word's features, > he'll have the problems of switching to Word's shortcuts. ... David Grossman ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
