One more trick. If you're using PhotoShop, resize the image in PhotoShop
to fit your page layout, then apply an Unsharp Mask using these
settings:
This is a good compromise to provide better legibility when printed.
Save the file as a PhotoShop EPS (not a bitmap) for faster Postscript
processing and printing. Makes for smaller Postscript files, saving you
money when going to a Postscript RIP, and saving headaches when creating
PDF files.
Windows NT needs all the help it can get when dealing with Postscript.
Just one reason we document our software using Macs and Virtual PC. NT
will install on VPC as long as you don't need Service Pack 4.
--
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Publications Manager
ClickNet Software Corp.
San Jose, CA 95131
408.576.5952
http://www.clicknet.com
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Subject: Asset management/network updating
From: Owen Watson <owen@rsnz.govt.nz>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:23 -0400
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I'm looking at netOctopus for doing the above tasks in a
cross-platform environment. Has anyone used it or other programs and
can give pointers to what worth's buying?
..........................................................................
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Subject: MS Office differences between platforms (was: Re: [WinMac]
From: hharken <hank.harken@asu.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:23 -0400
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>MS Access just does not exist for the Mac and probably never will
Or you could buy Filemaker Pro for both platforms, actually
get some cross-platform functionality, and get some work done.
We use FM for both platforms here. Relational if you need it
and the current versions read SQL. You don't have to be
a computer geek to organize sophisticated datebases and your
users achieve greater independence.
- Hank
Subject: RE: iMac with Softwindows problem
From: hharken <hank.harken@asu.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:22 -0400
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>The solution is rather simple: update SoftWindows to the latest=20
>version. I did and it runs flawlessly in my Tangerine iMac.
Check the Connectix web site for a FREE updater.
- Hank
Subject: Re: [WinMac] How I can get screen shots?
From: "Willy Rivet" <wrivet@qouest.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:25 -0400
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Try this utility: Screen Capture found at:
http://www.nestsoft.com/download.html
William Rivet
tech support
Qouest.net
Subject: Re: [WinMac] How I can get screen shots?
From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:26 -0400
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Aw shucks! This one goes all the way back to the 128k Mac:
Command-Shift-3
BTW, Command-Shift-4 captures the active window!
At 05:14 PM 7/26/99 -0400, Darryl wrote:
>Well, you hold down the Apple (Command) and Shift keys while hitting
>F3. Oh, no, wait... hehehe...
Cheers!
Dan
Subject: record Mac CD using PC CDRW
From: "Rosemary J. Hagen" <rjw@eos.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:28 -0400
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We just purchased a Creative Labs CD-RW which works with Windows 95/98.
Will it be possible, over a Novell network for me to record Mac CDs using
this? Any advice on how?
Thank you for your time and help.
Rosemary
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Subject: RE: How I can get screen shots?
From: "Parker, Douglas" <douglas.parker@lmco.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:29 -0400
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Do your screen capture in black and white, not color.
Go to your Display control panel and set your display settings to High
Contrast White. This will set your screen colors to black and white. Then if
you import your screen shots into PhotoShop or some other image editor, you
can compress the image size by removing color information (setting the image
mode to bitmap). Regardless of number of images you intend to put in your
user guide, you'll have a *much* smaller document to carry around or send to
a printer at the end of your task. I've seen MS Word created user guides
that are 2-3MB huge due to the large number of color screen captures. It
just doesn't make sense to have the color--you're going to be sending it to
a black and white printer anyway!
If you do the screen capture in color and then reduce it to black and white,
you risk having colors map to white on white or black on black in some
areas, whereas the High Contrast White setting is designed to prevent that
from the beginning.
Doug
> ----------
>
> i need to make a new user guide, but I need some screen shots of my NT
> machine. How I can make screen shots or better only active windows shots
> on Win NT?
>
Subject: Re: [WinMac] How I can get screen shots?
From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:14:41 -0400
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At 3:55 PM -0400 7/26/99, help wrote:
>i need to make a new user guide, but I need some screen shots of my NT
>machine. How I can make screen shots or better only active windows shots
>on Win NT?
>
Use the Print Screen button on your keyboard!=20
Shift-PrintScreen will capture just the current window.
Leonard
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Subject: Re: [WinMac] MS Office differences between platforms (was: Re:
[WinMac]
From: Tim Scoff <tscoff@pitt.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:31:31 -0400
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--On Tuesday, July 27, 1999, 9:14 AM -0400 hharken <hank.harken@asu.edu>
wrote:r
>
>> MS Access just does not exist for the Mac and probably never will
>
> Or you could buy Filemaker Pro for both platforms, actually
> get some cross-platform functionality, and get some work done.
>
> We use FM for both platforms here. Relational if you need it
> and the current versions read SQL. You don't have to be
> a computer geek to organize sophisticated datebases and your
> users achieve greater independence.
There are five reasons why that is not a viable option for me and they
probably apply to many other businesses as well.
The first one is pricing. MS Access is, "free" because it comes with
MS Office Pro. FileMaker Pro costs money above the basic cost of our
office productivity standard product. Yes the basic MS Office for the PC
costs less than MS Office Pro, however the perception is that Access is
free while FileMaker costs money and the perception is the reality.
The second one is Microsoft. We don't trust Microsoft to test the
next release of Windows with any other vendor's products completely,
especially competitor's products. We do believe that Microsoft would
release a new Service Pack which breaks their competitor's products and
then we would be in a situation where we don't have anything that works
because we chose not to use Microsoft's solutions. This may or may not be
true, however this has been brought up as a point in formal meetings where
we were deciding what products to use as our standards!
The third one is the fact that FileMaker only reads SQL, it can't
write to a SQL server and we're implementing MS SQL Server in the near
future. That means when we install SQL Server our default database
application won't be able to write to the databases that we store on it.
The fourth reason is because FileMaker is an Apple product. Apple's
public relations/marketing departments have made it extremely difficult to
be taken seriously if you suggest an Apple solution for anything in many
parts of corporate America. I happen to work in one of those organizations
where the attitude is, "get with the times, Apple's history." Apple is
improving their image, but it's going to take years for them to overcome
that stereotype.
The fifth reason is because, "everyone else is using Access."
Everyone else knows what's best so we're following the crowd.
As for myself, I own and use FileMaker Pro 4.1 at home and when I do
consulting. It's just at work where Access is the only viable choice, and
only one of the reasons why it isn't a viable choice is technologically
based.
Tim Scoff
casper@nb.net
"Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. It was this
kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place."
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Asset management/network updating
From: "Welch, John C." <jwelch@aer.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:31:32 -0400
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I use it daily, and have for the past 2 years, thorough 3 owners of the
product. It is absolutely fantastic, and in a lot of ways, second to
none, esp. with the SNMP support in the upcoming version, 3.5
john
Owen Watson wrote:
>
> I'm looking at netOctopus for doing the above tasks in a
> cross-platform environment. Has anyone used it or other programs and
> can give pointers to what worth's buying?
>
> ..........................................................................
> Owen Watson, The Royal Society of NZ, PO Box 598, Wellington, New Zealand
> Internet watson.o@rsnz.govt.nz Ph: +64 4 472 7421 Fax: +64 4 473 1841
> The gateway to New Zealand science: http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/
>
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Subject: Re: [WinMac] RE: How I can get screen shots?
From: "Darron Spohn" <dspohn@clicknet.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:31:34 -0400
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> Do your screen capture in black and white, not color.
>
Doug,
You're assuming print-only reproduction.
We use FrameMaker to produce our printed documentation, as well as PDF
files for those who like to work onscreen with hyperlink
cross-references. Color looks much better on screen than does
black-and-white. And if we decide to make our documentation available on
the Internet, it is simple to export FrameMaker documents as HMTL (yes,
this actually works in version 5.5). The HTML still needs a little
cleanup in a text editor, but not much if you've set up the reference
page properly.
> you can compress the image size by removing color
> information (setting the image mode to bitmap)
As I stated in my previous reply, save your screen shots as EPS files.
Bitmaps take forever to raster in a Postscript RIP, and greatly increase
processing time when converting to PDF. Postscript files also compress
nicely when converting to PDF, unlike bitmaps Get enough bitmaps in your
document (or god forbid use high-resolution bitmaps) and you'll have
problems printing them to a Postscript RIP. This is one reason service
bureaus charge more for Windows files than for Macintosh files; they
simply have fewer problems with Mac files, partially because Mac users
have been at this longer, made all those mistakes already, and know how
to set up files for proper printing. Don't embed bitmaps in your
documents. If you do you'll get bit in the ass eventually.
> I've seen MS Word created user guides
>that are 2-3MB huge
Microsoft Word for a user guide? It is overkill as a word processor and
woefully inadequate as a document publishing application. You're not one
of those who publishes 80-page PDF files with no Table of Contents on
the left of the window and no hyperlinks in the traditional TOC and
Index are you?
We regularly create 300-page user guides that total 30-40MB with screen
shots, and we have no problems printing them. I'm going to say this one
more time: Do not embed bitmaps in your documents.
--
Darron Spohn
Publications Manager
ClickNet Software Corp.
San Jose, CA 95131
408.576.5952
http://www.clicknet.com
"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
Subject: Re: [WinMac] How I can get screen shots?
From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:31:38 -0400
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At 9:14 AM -0400 7/27/99, Willy Rivet wrote:
>Try this utility: Screen Capture found at:
>
>http://www.nestsoft.com/download.html
>
I personally prefer SnagIt myself for Windows screen captures=20
- see <http://www.techsmith.com/>
Leonard
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Subject: Re: [WinMac] How I can get screen shots?
From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:31:41 -0400
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At 9:14 AM -0400 7/27/99, Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
> Aw shucks! This one goes all the way back to the 128k Mac:
>Command-Shift-3
>
> BTW, Command-Shift-4 captures the active window!
>
Only on System 8 and later - on Sys7 (and earlier) it sends
the screen to the printer.
Leonard
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Subject: Re: [WinMac] record Mac CD using PC CDRW
From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:31:48 -0400
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At 9:14 AM -0400 7/27/99, Rosemary J. Hagen wrote:
>We just purchased a Creative Labs CD-RW which works with Windows 95/98.
>Will it be possible, over a Novell network for me to record Mac CDs using
>this? Any advice on how?
>
Not to my knowledge! Since the PC doesn't know from all the
funky stuff in HFS/HFS+, there isn't any way to burn a Mac CD from a
PC.
The only way that would work, but I don't recall being
supported by anyone, would be a way to create an "image" on the Mac
side and have it burned on the Wintel side.
Leonard
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Subject: RE: [WinMac] RE: How I can get screen shots?
From: John Nurick <jnurick@lrconsulting.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:58:31 -0400
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> Do your screen capture in black and white, not color.
> Go to your Display control panel and set your display settings to High
> Contrast White. This will set your screen colors to black and
> white.
Even if the manual's going to be in colour you can reduce the file size
by setting the monitor to 256 color rather than 16 or 24 bit before
doing the screenshots.
John
Subject: RE: [WinMac] MS Office differences between platforms (was: Re:
[W inMac]
From: John Nurick <jnurick@lrconsulting.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:58:47 -0400
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Filemaker certainly beats Access for easy ad hoc databasery, but is (or
was a few months ago) well behind when it comes to heavy relational
stuff and integration with Office apps.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hharken [mailto:hank.harken@asu.edu]
> Sent: 27 July 1999 14:14
> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Subject: [WinMac] MS Office differences between platforms (was: Re:
> [WinMac]
>
>
>
> >MS Access just does not exist for the Mac and probably never will
>
> Or you could buy Filemaker Pro for both platforms, actually
> get some cross-platform functionality, and get some work done.
>
> We use FM for both platforms here. Relational if you need it
> and the current versions read SQL. You don't have to be
> a computer geek to organize sophisticated datebases and your
> users achieve greater independence.
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