Pages/Spelling
Hi there is any one having trouble with the spell checker with iWork Pages. Every time I try to use the spell checker the programme quits. Suggestions? I like Pages better than Word and want to do all my word processing with Pages. Numbers and Keynote are also great but different to MS Office for mac and have to learn the new way of doing things. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Hm Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Wk Ph: (08) 9291 4599 Mbl: 0417 053 266 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Safari faulure
Hi Eugene, Safari crashed on me all the time until I turned off 'Warn when visiting a fraudulent website' in the Security preferences. Seems like their bug catcher is made of bugs. James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc
Hi Darrel, Writing the draft text in Word should be fine. But for the actual printing (not that I've ever had a book published) I'd expect the publisher would have their staff reformat it in their own software before printing, so don't spend too much time using advanced formatting or converting graphics. Regards, James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Pages/Spelling
Hi Stuart, I agree, using Pages is so much more productive than using Word -- it's surprising how inefficient working in Word is. I think you have a rare problem with spell checking crashing. Pages uses the same spell check as all the other Apple apps (e.g., Mail). Do you have the same problem in any other Apple apps? What version of Mac OS X are you using, and what version of Pages? There will probably be error messages from Pages or AppleSpell in your Console log (go into Applications and then Utiltiies)...although there could be a lot of other messages in there too. James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Safari faulure
Hi James, Safari crashes before it can launch far enough to get into the preference panel. Regards, Eugene On 08/02/2009, at 5:31 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Eugene, Safari crashed on me all the time until I turned off 'Warn when visiting a fraudulent website' in the Security preferences. Seems like their bug catcher is made of bugs. James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Safari faulure
Hi James Eugene, I use a G5 2.8 ghz intel core 2 duo, 4 gb ram,running 10.5.6 I've had Warn when visiting a fraudulent website enabled since I bought it, and never had a crash once, I don't know what the solution is, but there must be more to it than just dis-enable the fraudulent web site if it doesn't effect everyone. Bill On 08/02/2009, at 5:31 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Eugene, Safari crashed on me all the time until I turned off 'Warn when visiting a fraudulent website' in the Security preferences. Seems like their bug catcher is made of bugs. James. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Safari faulure
Hi, I don't think everyone would be affected by just one issue, there are probably at least a couple of different problems that affect different people. For example, Eugene's problem sounds like corrupt preferences or icons (move the relevant files and folders out of Library•) or an incomplete software update (try combo installer). James. *E.g,. move the following from your home folder to your Desktop one by one, trying Safari between each move, and see if any makes any difference. This list might be different for different versions of Safari (I don't which versions Tom and Eugue are using). Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist (file) Library/Caches/Safari (folder) Library/Safari (folder) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?
I can't seem to get italics to reflect in the default font which is used by Apple Mail when typing an email. I assume this must be done via Apple Mail Preferences Fonts Colours Message Font Select... I can get the font type itself to change, but when I select italics, using for instance font type Verdana, italics is reflected in the preview pane of the Fonts window, but italics is not automatically reflected when I begin typing a Mail message. I can manually change the text to italics after typing the message, but ideally I don't want to have to do this each time. Any clues? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?
italics is not a font, it's a font effect and normally you type in verdana then select the block to make it italics, then as i mentioned in a earlier posting, if the receiver has not verdana (or the same font set installed as you) then the letter/webpage/word doc/ pdf file will appear different rich text files (rtf) can store the info for italics/bold/underlined James On 08/02/2009, at 20:47, Steven Knowles wrote: I can't seem to get italics to reflect in the default font which is used by Apple Mail when typing an email. I assume this must be done via Apple Mail Preferences Fonts Colours Message Font Select... I can get the font type itself to change, but when I select italics, using for instance font type Verdana, italics is reflected in the preview pane of the Fonts window, but italics is not automatically reflected when I begin typing a Mail message. I can manually change the text to italics after typing the message, but ideally I don't want to have to do this each time. Any clues? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?
Thanks James. If however I launch Entourage, I can go into Entourage Preferences General Preferences Fonts, then for the field HTML messages (proprtional) I can select Verdana Italic. Then if I create a new message with Entourage and start typing, I'm typing in italics. This also works if I reply to a message. If Apple Mail can't do the same as Entourage on its own, anyone have any creative ideas on how to achieve the same? Involving Automator perhaps? I see in Automator's Library there is a New Mail Message Action, but not sure how I could drag in a pre-determined text format. I thought about utilising Apple Mail Stationery, but then that wouldn't work for replying to messages. Cheers, Steven On 08/02/2009, at 4:13 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: italics is not a font, it's a font effect and normally you type in verdana then select the block to make it italics, then as i mentioned in a earlier posting, if the receiver has not verdana (or the same font set installed as you) then the letter/webpage/word doc/ pdf file will appear different rich text files (rtf) can store the info for italics/bold/underlined James On 08/02/2009, at 20:47, Steven Knowles wrote: I can't seem to get italics to reflect in the default font which is used by Apple Mail when typing an email. I assume this must be done via Apple Mail Preferences Fonts Colours Message Font Select... I can get the font type itself to change, but when I select italics, using for instance font type Verdana, italics is reflected in the preview pane of the Fonts window, but italics is not automatically reflected when I begin typing a Mail message. I can manually change the text to italics after typing the message, but ideally I don't want to have to do this each time. Any clues? Cheers, Steven SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Installing a font into Entourage
On 06/02/2009, at 6:33 PM, Denise Williams wrote: Hi All Using iMac OSX vers10.4.11. Can anyone please tell me how I can install a particular font (that is sitting in my Hard drive - Library - Fonts) into Entourage. I want to use it in my emails. But will I then have the problem of it not being accepted by other people's email programmes (it is an unusual font)? Thanks for any help If the font is sitting in /Library/Fonts then it is already installed. Convincing Entourage to use it may be a different issue. If it is an unusual font you may well find that most of your recipients won't have it anyway, so their systems will their own closest match. The best bet in these matters s to stick with fonts that are known to exist in standard installations of Windows and Mac OS X, such as Arial, Time New Roman (NOT Times!), Courier, Tahoma, etc. The Leopard version of Font Book has a couple of special Collections called Windows Office Compatible and Web-safe Mac/Windows which show a list of fonts that should work. Boring but safe. -- 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. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc
I agree with Eugene, Mike and others on InDesign as the preferred option for page layout. Write text in Word or another word processing application but the product that goes to the printers should be in a dedicated page layout application and InDesign is the current front runner. Also, being an Adobe application, the transition to PDF is seamless. Cheers Ian From: Darrel McGuiness dmcguin...@tawarri.id.au In-Reply-To: list-441...@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:09:28 +0900 References: list-441...@wamug.org.au list-441...@wamug.org.au X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Ian or others, If writing a draft for a book; what applications (word processing), would be acceptable? Regards Darrel On 04/02/2009, at 4:50 PM, Ian Conaghan wrote: I have found that by simply dragging the embedded object onto the desktop and opening it from within a relevant application eg: image files - Graphic Convertor or Photoshop etc has always worked for me but I admit that I haven't tried it with an embedded PDF. Further to Daniel's comments on sending certain file types to commercial printers, I quote from the Penfold Buscome Print Buyers Guide: Applications that are not commercially acceptable and should be avoided are Microsoft Publisher, Word, Excel or Powerpoint (among others) Cheers Ian No, did not work. Has anyone else met and solved this problem? regards robin On 02/02/2009, at 4:35 PM, Eugene wrote: I don't know if this would work but I have used it many times to extract embedded pictures as separate files. Subject: Publishing software Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:32:08 +0900 References: list-441...@wamug.org.au list-441...@wamug.org.au list-442...@wamug.org.au X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Hi Darrel I use Adobe InDesign for our publishing work. Clients prepare their text input in Word and provide the photos/images separately. I bring the text and images together and do the layout using Indesign and eventually save the finished product as a PDF file which goes to the printer for digital printing. If the printer is required to do more than just print off the PDF, they prefer to work with InDesign or Quark Express. I agree with the comments that generally, no-one likes Word for final document preparation, but it's great to do the writing - just don't embed anything else in it, and don't bother with fancy formatting... all that can be done with the layout program. Haven't tried Pages for anything big, though it looks good. Cheers Mike From: Mervyn Giuliana Bond m...@iinet.net.au Subject: Re: Publishing software Darrel My son who has just had a book published uses Adobe InDesign. He is a landscape photographer and wanted to place his own text and photographs. Worked well. If you don't own InDesign a cheaper option is Ragtime. It is a page layout application that again allows for text and images to be put where you want them and at resolutions you want. It uses Adobe Distiller to create the pdf for the printer to use. It is a German product. Check out http://www.ragtime.de/start.html?lang_id=en Merv Hi Darrel I use Adobe InDesign for our publishing work. Clients prepare their text input in Word and provide the photos/images separately. I bring the text and images together and do the layout using Indesign and eventually save the finished product as a PDF file which goes to the printer for digital printing. If the printer is required to do more than just print off the PDF, they prefer to work with InDesign or Quark Express. I agree with the comments that generally, no-one likes Word for final document preparation, but it's great to do the writing - just don't embed anything else in it, and don't bother with fancy formatting... all that can be done with the layout program. Haven't tried Pages for anything big, though it looks good. Cheers Mike On 08/02/2009, at 1:16 PM, Darrel McGuiness wrote: Ian or others, If writing a draft for a book; what applications (word processing), would be acceptable? Regards Darrel On 04/02/2009, at 4:50 PM, Ian Conaghan wrote: Subject: Pages/Spelling Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:03:05 +0900 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Hi there is any one having trouble with the spell checker with iWork Pages. Every time I try to use the spell checker the programme quits. Suggestions? I like Pages better than Word and want to do all my word processing with Pages. Numbers and Keynote are also great but different to MS Office for mac and have to learn the new way of doing things. Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:37:43 +0900 Message-ID: dcfdc2750902080037i63423ad4me266df717644...@mail.gmail.com Subject: Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc From: James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com Hi Darrel, Writing the draft text in Word should be fine. But for the actual printing (not that I've ever had a book published) I'd expect the publisher would
Re: How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?
On 08/02/2009, at 10:14 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: If however I launch Entourage, I can go into Entourage Preferences General Preferences Fonts, then for the field HTML messages (proprtional) I can select Verdana Italic. Then if I create a new message with Entourage and start typing, I'm typing in italics. This also works if I reply to a message. If Apple Mail can't do the same as Entourage on its own, anyone have any creative ideas on how to achieve the same? Involving Automator perhaps? I see in Automator's Library there is a New Mail Message Action, but not sure how I could drag in a pre-determined text format. I thought about utilising Apple Mail Stationery, but then that wouldn't work for replying to messages. Please remember that the email protocol does NOT support fonts, font styles, paragraph formatting, etc. You can set your particular client to do anything you like as long as it supports it, but there is absolutely no guarantee at all that the recipient will see any of it. I have a client who continues to use Pine (a pure text-based email client in UNIX) to read mail. It has no way to deal with any of this stuff. As the sender of an email message, you have no control at all over how your recipient has their client set up. The best advice is to keep your message plain and simple. If you need to create a heavily- formatted message, send it as a PDF attachment. That way, you know they will see it the way you intended (depending on their Windows security settings, of course). Microsoft have so much to answer for. They started all this nonsense... -- 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. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
www hijack problem - OT
An acquaintance of mine developed a popular website devoted to fruit information. This website has now been hijacked by some other entity. Actually, I had seen this particular site come up in responce to clicking other URLS while doing some fruit research. Obviously the hijacking is extensive. My question: can anyone direct me to an appropriate place where I can make a complaint and try to get some action in undoing the hijacking? The proper URL is www.fruitipedia.com. The hijacker has added the words Fruti and Pedia to the fake site, using javascript that directs one to various other sites, and the closest I could find to the originator turned up this: body form name=form1 method=post action=Default.aspx id=form1 div input type=hidden name=__VIEWSTATE id=__VIEWSTATE value=/ wEPDwUKMTYyNzcxNDY4NmRkyQ2yJKovz0ezDau7NpEIvDxI54c= / /div div This page does nothing. /div /form /body On behalf of my friend, I will be grateful for advice. Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: www hijack problem - OT
Hi Pat The web site may not have been hacked but possibly the domain name has been cyber-squatted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_squatting Whois.net shows fruitipedia.com was owned by an Indian company and the domain expired on 5 Feb 2009. http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=fruitipediatld=com The current IP address of www.fruitipedia.com resolves to 69.64.147.16 which was traced to Bellevue, Wa, USA. Did your acquaintance renew their domain registration in time? HTH warren On 09/02/2009, at 12:29 PM, Pat wrote: An acquaintance of mine developed a popular website devoted to fruit information. This website has now been hijacked by some other entity. Actually, I had seen this particular site come up in responce to clicking other URLS while doing some fruit research. Obviously the hijacking is extensive. My question: can anyone direct me to an appropriate place where I can make a complaint and try to get some action in undoing the hijacking? The proper URL is www.fruitipedia.com. The hijacker has added the words Fruti and Pedia to the fake site, using javascript that directs one to various other sites, and the closest I could find to the originator turned up this: body form name=form1 method=post action=Default.aspx id=form1 div input type=hidden name=__VIEWSTATE id=__VIEWSTATE value=/ wEPDwUKMTYyNzcxNDY4NmRkyQ2yJKovz0ezDau7NpEIvDxI54c= / /div div This page does nothing. /div /form /body On behalf of my friend, I will be grateful for advice. Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: www hijack problem - OT
Yep that's one of the cyber squatting companies. this basically means the original holders have not renewed their registration in time Sorry I have no idea how they'd go about getting their domain back On 09/02/2009, at 1:39 PM, Warren Jones wrote: Hi Pat The web site may not have been hacked but possibly the domain name has been cyber-squatted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_squatting Whois.net shows fruitipedia.com was owned by an Indian company and the domain expired on 5 Feb 2009. http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=fruitipediatld=com The current IP address of www.fruitipedia.com resolves to 69.64.147.16 which was traced to Bellevue, Wa, USA. Did your acquaintance renew their domain registration in time? HTH warren On 09/02/2009, at 12:29 PM, Pat wrote: An acquaintance of mine developed a popular website devoted to fruit information. This website has now been hijacked by some other entity. Actually, I had seen this particular site come up in responce to clicking other URLS while doing some fruit research. Obviously the hijacking is extensive. My question: can anyone direct me to an appropriate place where I can make a complaint and try to get some action in undoing the hijacking? The proper URL is www.fruitipedia.com. The hijacker has added the words Fruti and Pedia to the fake site, using javascript that directs one to various other sites, and the closest I could find to the originator turned up this: body form name=form1 method=post action=Default.aspx id=form1 div input type=hidden name=__VIEWSTATE id=__VIEWSTATE value=/ wEPDwUKMTYyNzcxNDY4NmRkyQ2yJKovz0ezDau7NpEIvDxI54c= / /div div This page does nothing. /div /form /body On behalf of my friend, I will be grateful for advice. Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) User Support Officer Laboratory Manager Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
