Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #346 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 346 Today's Topics: (A) How read Word into Quark! (Q) 8.6 and Localtalk Bridge Acrobat Distiller Acrobat Distiller Decoding mime's Dual modem connection to Internet Enlarging display on old 12 inch monitor? Info-Mac Digest V16 #345 Postscript or not! Quicken 98 Problem 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 #346" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:57:33 +1000 From: Paul Jacobson Subject: (A) How read Word into Quark! on 5/10/99, Info-Mac typed: >Will: >You need to have Microsnot's OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) installed. >That's their set of system extensions that allows you to put bits of word, >PowerPoint & Excel documents into each other and do mail merges etc. XPress >needs it to place the formatted Word documents when you ask it to Get Text. >There should be an OLE install disk with the rest of your XPress install >disks. You will also need a copy of the word import xtension for quark. the latest versions are free download from quark's website. OLE should be installed during the ms word installation, so check in your extextions folder before installing it from the xpress cd. http://www.quark.com/files/?p=QuarkXPress&f=XTensions&o=Macintosh&l=US +English&v=3%2E3x hope this helps paul digital renegades desktop publishing & internet design ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:25:19 -0700 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) 8.6 and Localtalk Bridge I have a blue&white G3 450 MHz running OS 8.6, including Open Transport 2.0.3. While not supported, should Localtalk Bridge still work in this configuration? I find that the load process freezes at the point Localtalk Bridge is being installed. This occurs both for the version downloaded straight from Apple and for a version modified with the GeeThree.com Bridge Patcher. Does anyone have experience in using Localtalk Bridge in the same hardware/software configuration I have? Thanks! Mark Allen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 17:30:38 GMT From: casgrain@ere.umontreal.ca (Philippe Casgrain) Subject: Acrobat Distiller Doug Hardie wrote: >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. I suspect you are creating version 3 pdf files, and some of your users are using Acrobat 2.x (app or plug-in). In the Distiller menu, select Job Options... and then click on the 'Compatibility' popup menu to select 'Acrobat 2.1' instead of Acrobat 3. Cheers, Philippe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:32:50 +0200 From: cbuser@mus.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Acrobat Distiller > 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. I think I know what the problem is. You use Acrobat Distiller and Reader 3.01, those which can't see anything use 3.0 or earlier (I don't remember at what stage the problem came up - 2 -> 3, or 3 -> 3.01). Try it with an earlier distiller/reader version, or convince your users to upgrade. Good luck, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at Worried about Y2K? Buy a Macintosh. Y2K safe since 1984. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 99 14:11:13 -0500 From: "Stephen J. Wright" Subject: Decoding mime's Bob, I recommend Mpack (available on InfoMac, maybe also in the AOL Mac software forums), or the StuffIt Expander/DropStuff combination (or StuffIt Lite or Deluxe), any version after 3.5. The newest being passed out in apps is 5.0 or 5.1, and IMHO it has the cleanest MIME decoders Aladdin has released. MPack is as good, but it's older and somewhat hard to track down. I'd try the InfoMac web mirror (http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html) or VersionTracker's search engine (www.versiontracker.com) for either or both of them. Hope this helps. Steve Wright PS & Aside: I'm still waiting for AOL to "get with the program" and recommend these apps in their literature. Maybe they do: I haven't subscribed since Winter '97 myself. On 10/5/99 11:31 AM, Info-Mac (info-mac@starnine.com) chiseled in the electronic asphalt: >Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:09:48 EDT >From: Rjfield@aol.com >Subject: Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* > >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. > >Thanks in advance. > >Bob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:32:33 -0400 From: Tom Coradeschi Subject: Dual modem connection to Internet JanusRuhk@aol.com: >I am inquiring whether any company (or individual) has produced >software/hardware allowing a Mac computer to connect to an Internet >provider via two modems (a thereby double your connection speed). I >know such software is available for PCs, but nothing for Macs. Any >help would be greatly appreciated! FCR Software has what you are looking for. LinkUPPP is available for up to 2 modems or 4 ISDN lines. I used it, until fairly recently (the single modem version), and was very pleased with its performance! tom coradeschi tcora@pica.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:45:24 EDT From: RJJ2000@aol.com Subject: Enlarging display on old 12 inch monitor? I have an old 12 inch Mac RGB monitor (originally purchased with an LC). It still works just fine and I would like to keep using it. I remember from several years ago that there was some sort of tweak which would allow one to enlarge the useable screen area and eliminate the almost 3/4 inch border of black screen. I've searched the info-mac archives with no result so far. Does anyone out there know how to do this, or point me towards the correct info? Thanks, Robert Johansen Sacred Heart Major Seminary Detroit, Michigan rjj2000@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:29:28 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #345 In a message dated 10/5/99 11:52:57 AM, info-mac@starnine.com writes: > >Subject: Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* > I believe that YA base 64 is what you are looking for, mbl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:10:17 -0500 From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" Subject: Postscript or not! I am buying Laser printer. Currently own an old HP DeskWriter (B&W). I would like to go to cheap and am looking at the low end HP laser printer ($399-$499). It is not Postscript. I am not a graphics oriented person. i may print a few web pages with photos. I may print some drawings (which are not postscript). My wife may print some certificates, or some B&W graphics for school. Do I need post script or will quickdraw printer be sufficient? Thanks Jeff ******************************************************************* "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." -- Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1952) Jeffrey S. Kline #A00284 #A36874 Columbia, Missouri Professional Email: The Sportshooters place on the web http://www.sportshooter.com/ My Courses of Fire Library Web Page http://www.sportshooter.com/cof_library/ Target Masters Page http://www.tranquility.net/~target/ USPSA Area III Web Page - http://www.sportshooter.com//hosts/uspsa-area3/index.htm ******************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:32:06 -0400 From: rfg@his.com Subject: Quicken 98 Problem I recently installed Quicken deluxe 98 on my G3 running OS 8.6. It was a freebee offered by Intuit in order to make my old Quicken-5 Y2K compliant. Bless 'em for that! I restarted as recommended then ran the Quicken Deluxe 98 PPC patch. I then launched Quicken 98 for the first time and got the alert box: "Quicken was unable to find OneClick Runtime in the Quicken Essentials folder. Without OneClick Runtime (or the commercially available OneClick control panel), Quicken will not be able to display its button bars." When I checked the Quicken Essentials folder, however, it did indeed contain OneClick Runtime. I then went to both Intuit's and OneCllick's sites to see if I could find a fix and nothing either recommended worked. E.g. One "fix" recommended: Simply quit and relaunch Quicken and the buttons should be available. Launching Quicken twice is apparently necessary for Quicken to copy their button palette file into the OneClick folder. The other "fix" recommended: 1. In Quicken, choose the Preferences option in the Edit menu. 2. Click on General in the list of preference categories shown at the left of the Preferences window. 3. Uncheck the Show Button Bars option, then click OK. 4. Now again, select the Preferences option in the Edit menu. 5. Check the Show Button Bars option, then click OK. Anyone solve this problem yet??? Many Thanks, Bob G. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:33:30 -0700 From: Scott Wyant Subject: Word attachments not readable Hello Info-mac -- 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. Anyone else seen this behavior? And if so, do you have a solution? Thanks. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************