Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #347 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 06 Oct 99 Volume 16 : Issue 347 Today's Topics: Acrobat Distiller Fwd: Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* Fwd: Word attachments not readable Info-Mac Digest V16 #345 internet/ethernet status Please keep SAS on the Macintosh!!! Postscript or not! sumex submissions Virex 6.0 download VPN software for Mac Word attachments not readable The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #347" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:23:23 -0400 From: "Steve Chambers" Subject: Acrobat Distiller Doug, Sounds like it could be a damaged font. Try the document with a different font, one that works elsewhere in the document and re-distill it. Also make sure you set it for Acrobat 2.1 compatability a lot of people still have the old V2 plug in. After that it is time to trash your acrobat prefs and perhaps even ATM... good Luck Steve Chambers ========================================= Subject: Acrobat Distiller Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:41:20 -0700 From: Doug Hardie I am using Acrobat Distiller 3 to create a few documents for distribution on our web server. However some documents are not readable when viewed via a browser. Some people can read them fine. Others get errors or blank pages. On one document when I view it through the browser I get just dots for each character. If the files are downloaded to disk and then you run reader, they all read fine. I have set for Embed all fonts. However, on the one page that gives me all dots, I get a dialog about a font where the name is completely munged at front. The last part is one of the fonts I used in the document. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? -- Doug ===================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:24:15 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* Bob asked: >I would like to know if there is a shareware program that will decode files >ending in *mim* or *mime*. I am using a Performa 6300CD with System 7.5.5. I >connect to the internet via AOL. I think StuffIt Expander 5.1.2/5.1.3 does this. Or you could try Decoder or MPack. MPack is made specifically for decoding MIME files. One or more of those should do it. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 05:05:35 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Word attachments not readable Scott wrote: >All right, I'm at my wit's end. Two new G3 PowerBooks, both running >Office98. One creates a Word document, and attaches it to an e-mail (I >hate it, but that's the way they work), using Netscape Communicator 4.5. >Sends it to the other, who downloads the attachment. > >MS Word 98 refuses to open the document. I open it in TexEdit Plus, strip >off the header gibberish, and save it as plain text. Now it can be opened. I wonder if you have some settings to encode the attachment incorrectly? I have never seen that behavior but also have never tried what you are doing. Have you tried just opening an email client in the normal way and attaching one of these files and sending it to the other machine? If these PowerBooks are in the same building, have you thought of ethernetting them and just using file sharing? Daly ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:30:28 -0400 From: "Steve Chambers" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #345 David, There are actually devices which purport to take a recording and "remove" the vocals. What they do is take the center channel and run it back into a mixer with the original source material but 180 degrees OUT OF PHASE with it. Because the vocals tent to be mostly in the center channel (IE both left and right equally) you end up with a song that has the vocals but (depending on the song) lower or sometimes just muffled. Not sure if there is a way to do this with existing digital audio products for the Mac. But a work around from my radio days was to find a section of the song that duplicates the instrumental under the vocal part of the mucic and do some (ummm, make that a lot) editing to produce an instrumental version. Depending on the song this CAN work, but it takes practice. hope this helps Steve > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Making Karaoke file from CD > Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 15:21:27 -0400 > From: David > > I teach at a school where we are often producing musical parodies of the > school using contemporary songs, show tunes--along with some older stuff. > > I would be a big hero around here if I could find a way to rip a track > off a CD and edit the sound file to remove the sung lyrics and use the > resulting file as accompaniement to our new lyrics. > > Is there some simple/easy/cheap way to do this? > > Remember, I am NOT a sound geek! > > Thanks > > David Huston > dhuston@drfast.net > Laurel School > Cleveland, OH > -- Steve Chambers, Systems Analyst Sarnoff Corporation ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:28:48 -0400 From: dead nancy Subject: internet/ethernet status hi, everybody. (this is a repost. i never saw it show up the first time.) five of us are connected to the net through our ethernet lan via a gateway machine running ipnetrouter. when the modem was external, it was easy enough (if a little low-tech) to glance across the room and check connection and transfer by looking at the little green lights. now the modem is internal, and the only way to check connection status is to open remote access and watch the graph. so: is there anything out there that will show me, on my computer, how fast (or if at all) my internet connection is going when i'm connected through another machine? something like freeppp's control strip or the global village menu bar thermometer would be nice. thanks. dead nancy http://www.merkins.com/ working for you! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 11:42:08 -0500 From: "Paul St. Amand" Subject: Please keep SAS on the Macintosh!!! Please keep SAS on the Macintosh!!! The SAS Institute, makers of SAS statistical software, may be dropping Macintosh support! They did not make a Mac version 7 of their software and currently have no plans to make a Mac version of their upcoming release 8 (see email below). SAS is a VITAL software program and a research standard for scientists and businesses world-wide. It would be a tremendous blow to loose SAS even though the SAS Institute does make other statistical programs for the Mac. Please inform your colleagues to call and write to Dennis Massengill and express their desire to keep SAS on the Mac. It may not be too late to change their position. Sincerely, Paul St. Amand pst@ksu.edu From: Dennis Massengill To: "'Paul St. Amand'" Subject: RE: Please keep SAS on the Macintosh!!! Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:37:43 -0400 Paul: Thanks for your interest in the SAS System. Currently, SAS V8 for the Mac is not scheduled. We have continued to see waning support on this platform so we are investigating future SAS versions. Thanks again for your interest. Dennis Dennis Massengill sasdwm@wnt.sas.com Market Development Dept. Enterprise Technology Partners SAS Institute Inc. 919-677-8000 phone 919-677-4444 fax www.sas.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:43:42 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Postscript or not! At 9:10 PM -0500 10/5/99, Jeffrey S. Kline wrote: >Do I need post script or will quickdraw printer be sufficient? A QuickDraw printer should be fine for you. chazl And the license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am. - Liz Phair, Divorce Song Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:39:11 -0700 From: "Adam C. Engst" Subject: sumex submissions >Does this imply that the submissions to sumex will not come to us as email >any more, that we will have to go and see what is new there? No, it's just a technical problem that we're working out. In fact, once we're done, we hope to have two lists, one just like what you're used to, with the discussion following new submission announcements, and one just for new submission announcements. cheers... -Adam PS: We haven't been at sumex for years now. Info-Mac is now graciously hosted by MIT. :-) -- Adam C. Engst, Info-Mac Senior Moderator -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:12:52 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: Virex 6.0 download I am having enormous difficulty getting the download of virex 6.0 I have been given several ftp and web site addresses. When I go to them, I am asked for a name for the file, as per usual, I get a box that says the download is beginning, as per usual, and it disappears after about ten seconds. No data. On one occasion, I actually did the download, or a download, but when I tried to open the .sit file, I was told that it was corrupted. How can I get the file? In general, I have enormous trouble getting this and other files from virex. The monthly update is an exercise in frustration, and, as often as not, someone has to send it to me personally. What is the problem with virex, as I download easily and reliably from everywhere else? Does anyone have any advice. Thank yo very much. Michael B. Luskin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 22:52:30 +0900 From: "Kumeda's" Subject: VPN software for Mac I am looking for VPN (Virtual Private Network) client software for Mac, such as Alta-Vista tunnel for Windows. Does anybody know one? Yasuo Kumeda ykumeda@yk.rim.or.jp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:24:28 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: Word attachments not readable I am not certain, but I suspect that what you need is the Microsoft Word 97/98 translator. I just got it from the Microsoft web site. It works well, but I wonder if it is for cross platform translation more than it is for 97 and 98 translation, Michael B. Luskin -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************