a new Dell PC

2007-12-09 Thread Meredith, Ashley
I've just had a hardware failure that means I get to upgrade to Vista Pro and the latest versions of FrameMaker and Acrobat Pro, as quick as I can get a new workstation ordered. The only stipulation that my university makes is that it prefers Dell. I haven't been paying much attention to

Vertical alignment in text frame

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Litchfield
I know I'm probably missing something really basic here, but is there or where will I find the control for vertical alignment of text within a text frame? Thanks Alan -- Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland http://www.alphabyte.co.nz

Re: a new Dell PC

2007-12-09 Thread Art Campbell
I'd go with any of their workstation 390/490 level machines, with at least 4G RAM and one pair of SATA RAID primary drives. If you're using Photoshop very much, remember that the recommended config calls for a secondary scratch hard drive, so you may want a third drive or a second pair. SCSI isn't

RE: a new Dell PC

2007-12-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
Ashley, Dell is fine although my experience is that you are better off if you buy the Dell Precision Workstations as opposed to the stuff they hawk for the low-end, casual users. The workstations tend to use more generic parts as opposed to married-to-the-motherboard specialized-for-Dell

RE: Vertical alignment in text frame

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Litchfield
Howdy, Just what I thought was the case, but well, you know how it is: I'm sure there is a way..., it can't be missing, something so basic as that Anyway, that's what I ended up by doing so it's good to see my approach confirmed :) Cheers Alan Maxwell Hoffmann wrote: Alan, You're not

a new Dell PC

2007-12-09 Thread Meredith, Ashley
I've just had a hardware failure that means I get to upgrade to Vista Pro and the latest versions of FrameMaker and Acrobat Pro, as quick as I can get a new workstation ordered. The only stipulation that my university makes is that it prefers Dell. I haven't been paying much attention to

a new Dell PC

2007-12-09 Thread Art Campbell
I'd go with any of their workstation 390/490 level machines, with at least 4G RAM and one pair of SATA RAID primary drives. If you're using Photoshop very much, remember that the recommended config calls for a secondary scratch hard drive, so you may want a third drive or a second pair. SCSI isn't

a new Dell PC

2007-12-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
Ashley, Dell is fine although my experience is that you are better off if you buy the "Dell Precision Workstations" as opposed to the stuff they hawk for the low-end, casual users. The "workstations" tend to use more "generic" parts as opposed to married-to-the-motherboard specialized-for-Dell

Vertical alignment in text frame

2007-12-09 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Alan, You're not missing anything. There is no such thing as vertical alignment for text within a text frame. The only place you will find vertical alignment in FrameMaker is within table cells. You will find the command on the [Table Cell] tab of the paragraph designer. Be sure to have all

Vector Graphic Import

2007-12-09 Thread Marc Creaghan