MacGroup: Corrupted fonts in Word
What happened to that user friendly environment? I guess it was nice while it lasted. Jerry Yeager wrote: Allocating memory in OS-X can be done by the user, but it is not for the faint-of-heart (smile). Jerry On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:00 AM, Tony LaFemina wrote: Allan Atherton wrote: What should I do about corrupted fonts in Word? I am using Word X under OS 10.2.1, and have noticed that Word has begun to quit rather frequently. Then today I noticed that in the pull down menu in the formatting palette, some of the fonts are gibberish, and I have to select a font 3 or 4 lines away from the one I want, in order to get the one I want. So I guess corrupted fonts are crashing the application. Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. I don't think you have corrupted fonts. I thing the program is getting bogged down. Try allocating more memory to it in 10M increments and see what happens. If it goes back to normal, you're going to have to see what useless information it's storing that's causing it to get so heavy. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Corrupted fonts in Word
I would think the OS-X approach is really a little more user friendly because it does not require the end user to guess at how much RAM the software manufacturer really intended the application to use ratehr than the bare bones minimum it need to get by with. (Sorry about ending the sentence like that!) Jerry On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 11:05 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote: What happened to that user friendly environment? I guess it was nice while it lasted. Jerry Yeager wrote: Allocating memory in OS-X can be done by the user, but it is not for the faint-of-heart (smile). Jerry On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:00 AM, Tony LaFemina wrote: Allan Atherton wrote: What should I do about corrupted fonts in Word? I am using Word X under OS 10.2.1, and have noticed that Word has begun to quit rather frequently. Then today I noticed that in the pull down menu in the formatting palette, some of the fonts are gibberish, and I have to select a font 3 or 4 lines away from the one I want, in order to get the one I want. So I guess corrupted fonts are crashing the application. Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. I don't think you have corrupted fonts. I thing the program is getting bogged down. Try allocating more memory to it in 10M increments and see what happens. If it goes back to normal, you're going to have to see what useless information it's storing that's causing it to get so heavy. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: call for research subjects
Hmm,
If you were closer to the Cincinnati area (and soon the Indianapolis
area) you could find the jack-of-all-trades type people you are
looking for in the genius bar of the Apple store. {Not that the folks at
MacTown aren't very well qualified!!}
Best wishes in this, especially at defending your definition in your
paper, as that by itself will be a tough sell.
Jerry
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 07:52 PM, Jesse Walker wrote:
(Stuff cut out).
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26
For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of
activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Corrupted fonts in Word
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 11:05 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote: What happened to that user friendly environment? I guess it was nice while it lasted. I think the point Jerry had in mind was that users of Mac OS X don't have to worry about things like micromanaging memory any more. As far as memory management goes, Mac OS X is much friendlier than its predecessors. In other ways, it's more complicated, but Apple has managed to do a good job of hiding most of the complications from ordinary users. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Corrupted fonts in Word
Allan Atherton wrote: Tony LaFemina remacs at optonline.net wrote: Allan Atherton wrote: What should I do about corrupted fonts in Word? I am using Word X under OS 10.2.1 I don't think you have corrupted fonts. I thing the program is getting bogged down. Try allocating more memory to it in 10M increments and see what happens. If it goes back to normal, you're going to have to see what useless information it's storing that's causing it to get so heavy. I have 768MB of RAM, and OSX gives each application all the memory it wants, on the fly, depending on whether the application is resting or working. So I doubt that I have a memory problem. Allan Atherton You may be right, but I'm not familiar with native OS X software. I'm still using 8.6. Pre OS X, software programs have 2 heap zones. When they collide, it don't matter if you have a zillion megs of RAM. You have to quit the program and restart it. If you want to avoid the problem, you give the program more memory. If the new software works differently, then it depends on how the programmers set up the work area in the program that determines how memory is allocated. Another thing you can look at is, compare the number of fonts to the number of lines in the Font menu. Maybe that will give you a clue to what's going on. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Corrupted fonts in Word
I don't think you have corrupted fonts. I thing the program is getting bogged down. Try allocating more memory I have 768MB of RAM, and OSX gives each application all the memory it wants, on the fly, depending on whether the application is resting or working. So I doubt that I have a memory problem. You may be right, but I'm not familiar with native OS X software. ... Another thing you can look at is, compare the number of fonts to the number of lines in the Font menu. Maybe that will give you a clue to what's going on. Memory There is no way to allocate memory in OSX unless you can work under the hood. Pogue's manual says the memory is allocated dynamically, and in the past year I have not heard of or found a way to allocate memory myself. I have a little program called Gmem that shows how much memory OSX is giving to the open programs. It is interested to see that a program that is open but doing nothing is given almost no memory. Then when you open a lot of documents, pictures, windows, etc., the program is given a lot more memory. It is really nice not to have to worry about memory, and you can run a lot more programs with a lot less memory, because each program does not lock up a fixed allocation. They just wait there, using just a little memory until you call on them to do some work. Then they get only what they need for the task, moment by moment. Fonts My problems with Word were almost certainly due to fonts, but I don't know if it was because certain fonts were corrupted or just unsupported. I could see the bad fonts in Word's WSYWIG pull down menu, because their names were distorted and illegible. Since Word X was unable to display the fonts legibly, I guess that means they were unsupported. I was able to compare the pull down menu to the contents of my four font folders (one in the OS9 System Folder and three in OSX's various Library Folders). Then by using alphabetic order, I figured out the bad fonts in the folders and trashed them. The bad fonts were all odd-balls that nobody would ever use. That cleaned up the pull down menu, and now the font that I select is the font that I get. That was only yesterday, so I can't yet say for sure that those fonts were also causing Word to quit now and then, but there are no quits so far so I am optimistic. Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: call for research subjects
Jesse, I'm far from a computer expert.that's one reason I'm so grateful for the help of those on this list. But, as a publisher, writer, editor and web-site content person, I can justly say from observation whatever you write will be well written. Good luck, Jane Blake The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
Hello every one, I am looking into buying a domain name for the LCS web site. I have ran into some trouble. It would be nice to have WWW.LCS.COM its short and sweet, but unfortunately another company owns that. The following list of names are already taken: lcs.com lcs.net ? lcs.us lcs.biz lcs.info lcs.org lcs.cc SO! I would like for everyone to submit names that would work for our group and web site, such as ... Derbycitymacs.com Lmug.com --- taken by a fitness website Louisvillecomputersociety.com --- t looong Lcsmug.com Just something that you feel would be a nice domain name for our web site. And it doesn?t have to be a .COM ***On a side note, please refrain from using the word river. No rivermacs.com, riverLCS.com. I think the area sports teams have taken those names too far, RiverFrogs, RiverBats, etc... Just kidding!almost.*** Maybe once we get a few, we could vote on the best one by email. Thanks for your help, Brian O'Neal The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
I've never quite understood if LCS is anything more than the mac user group. mug-l.org :) mug-louisville.org loumug.org loucs.org [which is untaken] Hen On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Brian O'Neal wrote: Hello every one, I am looking into buying a domain name for the LCS web site. I have ran into some trouble. It would be nice to have WWW.LCS.COM its short and sweet, but unfortunately another company owns that. The following list of names are already taken: lcs.com lcs.net ? lcs.us lcs.biz lcs.info lcs.org lcs.cc SO! I would like for everyone to submit names that would work for our group and web site, such as ... Derbycitymacs.com Lmug.com --- taken by a fitness website Louisvillecomputersociety.com --- t looong Lcsmug.com Just something that you feel would be a nice domain name for our web site. And it doesn?t have to be a .COM ***On a side note, please refrain from using the word river. No rivermacs.com, riverLCS.com. I think the area sports teams have taken those names too far, RiverFrogs, RiverBats, etc... Just kidding!almost.*** Maybe once we get a few, we could vote on the best one by email. Thanks for your help, Brian O'Neal The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
lcs.org ...vDog The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
Erm. is taken :) Loudonville Christian School since 1996 On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, vDog wrote: lcs.org ...vDog The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
Brian, I frequently visit a new website named www.stevehoffman.tv. This is the first time I have seen tv used. So, I suggest lcs.tv. David Dudine From: Brian O'Neal brimac at mac.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:58:52 -0400 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name. Hello every one, I am looking into buying a domain name for the LCS web site. I have ran into some trouble. It would be nice to have WWW.LCS.COM its short and sweet, but unfortunately another company owns that. The following list of names are already taken: lcs.com lcs.net ? lcs.us lcs.biz lcs.info lcs.org lcs.cc SO! I would like for everyone to submit names that would work for our group and web site, such as ... Derbycitymacs.com Lmug.com --- taken by a fitness website Louisvillecomputersociety.com --- t looong Lcsmug.com Just something that you feel would be a nice domain name for our web site The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
I'd be for maclouisville.whatever, myself. Or even macgroup.whatever. (That'd go nicely with the mailing list, anyway) Hello every one, I am looking into buying a domain name for the LCS web site. I have ran into some trouble. It would be nice to have WWW.LCS.COM its short and sweet, but unfortunately another company owns that. The following list of names are already taken: lcs.com lcs.net lcs.us lcs.biz lcs.info lcs.org lcs.cc The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
I would recommend lcsworld. All major extensions are available. Bryan Forrest Macintosh Specialist LifeNet http://www.lifenet.org The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
on 10/25/02 11:58, Brian O'Neal at brimac at mac.com wrote: Just something that you feel would be a nice domain name for our web site. And it doesn?t have to be a .COM ***On a side note, please refrain from using the word river. No rivermacs.com, riverLCS.com. I think the area sports teams have taken those names too far, RiverFrogs, RiverBats, etc... Just kidding!almost.*** Maybe once we get a few, we could vote on the best one by email. Thanks for your help, Brian O'Neal The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. Brian, Both maclcs.com and maclcs.org are available. Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
I actually like the lcsmug suggestion. Remember the KISS rule. The simpler it is, the easier it is to remember and repeat. rob vDog wrote: lcs.org ...vDog The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Your input is needed. LCS domain name.
On 10/25/02 11:58, Brian O'Neal wrote Hello every one, I am looking into buying a domain name for the LCS web site. I have ran into some trouble. I think that the organization should have a .org ending, as we aren't a company, but a non-profit organization. Here are some available names which show up (whatever means all are open): muglou.whatever maclou.whatever loumug.whatever loumac.whatever (except .com) These would be pretty easy to remember. Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: LCS?
LMacCS.com, .org etc. For Louisville Mac Computer Society. Just a thought. Bernie The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
MacGroup: Corrupted fonts in Word
Lee Larson wrote: On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 11:05 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote: What happened to that user friendly environment? I guess it was nice while it lasted. I think the point Jerry had in mind was that users of Mac OS X don't have to worry about things like micromanaging memory any more. As far as memory management goes, Mac OS X is much friendlier than its predecessors. In other ways, it's more complicated, but Apple has managed to do a good job of hiding most of the complications from ordinary users. I may be wrong, but I think it was some of those complications that gave users more control over the software they were using. As newer versions of software are introduced, the Help files are getting larger, and more assistants are being introduced which takes control away from the user. If you're the type that likes to push a button or select a tool and say Wow! Look what I did, then more power to you. Most of the stuff at my web site goes much deeper than the surface of the AppleWorks program. I get a feeling of satisfaction when I find out how to do things that go beyond the scope of a program. But, that's me. We all have our own passions. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. A calendar of activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
