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Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 05 Dec 99       Volume 16 : Issue 378

Today's Topics:

      (Q) Can't print while on-line
      (Q) Macintosh Modem Dilemma?
      (Q) PostScript Error when printing from Acrobat Reader
      [*] OneshotRecorder1.01, sound recorder with simple operation andtimer
      [*] OSA Menu 1.2.2
      [*] Pocket Album v1.1.0
      [*] RandomPassword
      [*] TextureMagic 1.2
      [*] Web Confidential 1.3 - German version
      [Q] StuffIt Deluxe vs. Expander & DropStuff
      answering machine s/w
      Busy signal with modem
      Changing Font Family Names
      Hardware : Pin Assignment formac Prograph II.3 B
      How to open Word files on my mac ?
      Info-Mac Digest V16 #377
      Netscape Navigator
      NN and Saved WWW Pages

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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:45:16 -0600
From: Hannes Hofer <hofer@ruf.rice.edu>
Subject: (Q) Can't print while on-line

I have discovered a strange "feature" i remote access.

I have my Imac DV SE connected to a Powermac 7200 and HP Deskjet 
870Cse via ethernet using appletalk. The printer is connected via an 
ethernet-to-localtalk adapter.

Everything works fine until I connect to the internet, then I can't 
print from the Imac.

I connect to the net via the buit-in modem through my employer, Rice 
University, and when I log on, all the appletalk zones at Rice show 
up in the chooser and my local printer driver becomes unavailable. In 
the appletalk control panel there are options to chose "ethernet 
built-in" or "remote only". Switching the two does not change the 
situation. It would seem that the the "ethernet built-in" option does 
not work correctly. It should also be mentioned that the problem 
exist with both OS 8.6 and OS 9 despite an apple rep's assurance that 
it wouldn't happen in the latter. Has anyone had the same experience? 
Is there a fix or a work-around?

Hannes Hofer

 
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:50:52 -0400
From: Eric <ericrich@olg.com>
Subject: (Q) Macintosh Modem Dilemma?

Hi,

I have a specific technical question about the purchase of a new modem.

We recently moved into a section of our state with apparently rather anti=
quated
phone lines. There are intermittent problems connecting to my ISP. One of=
 the
symptoms that seem to indicate there is =93trouble on the line=94 is diff=
ering
connection rates. E.g., if I use PPP to connect I get messages like =93Co=
nnecting
at 12000=94, =93Connecting at 9600=94, etc. Keep in mind that this is a m=
odem
configured for 14.4K. After LOTS of troubleshooting (checking and recheck=
ing
software settings, comparing complaints from other folks in my area, etc.=
), the
current theory is that the phone lines are so old that my poor old 1994 L=
ineLink
14.4 modem can=92t deal with the degraded signal quality.

I=92m running a PowerMac 266 MHz G3 (beige) running System 8.1. Would upg=
rading to
a new 56k modem POSSIBLY solve this problem? If so, what model(s) might y=
ou
suggest? I=92m hoping that error correction technology has improved since=
 I bought
my first modem in =9194. The technical specs on my old LineLink state tha=
t the
Error Correction is =93MNP-5=94. The specs on some of the newer modems st=
ate that
they feature =93MNP-5/MNP-10=94 Error Correction, so I hope that translat=
es to an
improvement.

Also, my ISP is V.90 capable. I don=92t know if that is part of this equa=
tion or
not.

Thanks,
Eric Richards
ericrich@olg.com

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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 10:27:58 +0700
From: sumeth@technozone.co.th (Sumeth Chaochuti)
Subject: (Q) PostScript Error when printing from Acrobat Reader

I can view pdf files w/o any problem but cannot print them with my
Acrobat Reader 3.01 (Centris 650/OS 7.6.1), whereas my colleages can
print them from their PPC w/o any problem. The Desktop printer will
always report PostScript error and when I had the detail printed out; I
find:

        ERROR: typecheck
        OFFENDING COMMAND: status

        STACK:
        (fonts/Ryumin-Light-Adobe-Japan1-2)
        (Ryumin-Light-Adobe-Japan1-2)
        /Serif
        -dictionary-
        /_pdfSubSetFontByStyleDict
        false

The document in this case contains only (TrueType) Times-Roman, and
Acrobat Reader has substituted italic, and italic-bold types with its
Adobe Serif MM, while leaving the bold and roman to the System's TT
Times.

When I tested with other document with Arial font (Windows), Acrobat
substituted it with Helvetica. Yet the font in the error report turns
out to be something else again:

        ERROR: typecheck
        OFFENDING COMMAND: status

        STACK:
 
        (fonts/GothicBBB-Medium-Adobe-Japan1-2)
        (GothicBBB-Medium-Adobe-Japan1-2)
        /SansSerif
        -dictionary-
        /_pdfSubSetFontByStyleDict
        false

Since the pattern is identical I hope someone may be able to spot what's
wrong with it and help me out of this bind.

Thanks
-- 
Sumeth Chaochuti

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Date: 3 Dec 1999
From: NattaWorks-Nagano <natta@pluto.dti.ne.jp>
Subject: [*] OneshotRecorder1.01, sound recorder with simple operation andtimer


* A sound recorder. Record sound onto your hard disk.
* Simplified operation.
* Timer recording.

* Your Mac might have a variety of sound input ports. Don't let them sleep!

* System requirements: PPC Mac like iMac. MacOS 8 or higher. QuickTime 3
or higher is recommended.
* Shareware price : U.S.$10.
         http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~natta/english.html
         mailto:NattaWorks@Kagi.com

[Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/one-shot-recorder-101.hqx; 295 K]

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Date: 4 Dec 1999
From: John Rethorst <jrethorst@post.com>
Subject: [*] OSA Menu 1.2.2


"OSA Menu is an iconic system menu (like the Help menu) that appears on the
right side of the menu bar. Its menu items are scripts: choose an item from
the menu and the script will run. Some commands are always available, and
some are only available within particular applications. Generally the
target of the script is the active application, and scripts that operate on
the user selection are particularly useful. Scripts in the OSA Menu act
like extensions to the command set of the application." - Leonard
Rosenthol, author

New in this version: further support for OS 9, bug fixes. The author
recommends that all users, on OS 9 or earlier, update to this version.
Free. Further information available at
http://www.lazerware.com/software.html

John Rethorst

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/osa-menu-122.hqx; 327 K]

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Date: 4 Dec 1999
From: Takashi Suzuki <setsu@tcp-ip.or.jp>
Subject: [*] Pocket Album v1.1.0


Pocket Album is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to view
picture files. Not just only browsing the files, this application works
as librarian and format converter.
One window, i.e. one file, can hold 24 picture files and some comments
for them.

Pocket Alubum accepts these picture format with QuickTime 4.0:
BMP, FlashPix, JPEG, GIF, Macromedia Flash, MacPaint, PICT, PhotoShop,
PNG, SGI Image, QuickTIme Image, TIFF, TARGA

Can convert to these picture format with QuickTime 4.0:
BMP, JPEG, MacPaint, PhotoShop, PICT, PNG, QuickTime Image, TGA,
SGI Image, TIFF

Features :
  Fat Binary.
  Drag & Drop support.
  Navigation Services aware. (PowerPC only)
  Mac OS 8.5 Windows Manager aware. (PowerPC only)

What's Changed :
 - Become Mac OS 8.5 Window Manager aware.
   (Window Proxy Icon & Window Path Pop-Up Menu)
 - Comment font forced to Geneva on Mac OS 9 + JLK. Changed them to Osaka
   if it's available.
 - When file name has '(' or ')', multiple items shown in Windows Menu.
   -> Fixed.

This application requires :
  Macintosh with 68020 or higher / PowerPC
  System7 + QuickTime 2.5 or later

[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/pocket-album-110.hqx; 268 K]

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Date: 3 Dec 1999
From: "David C. Oshel" <dcoshel@pobox.com>
Subject: [*] RandomPassword


It's hard to think up a password.  Here's a random password generator based on
the old diceware idea, but I use a PRNG to pick out candidates from the
vocabulary list.

Using dice to select one of 7776 words is perfectly random, but awfully
tedious.

This method gives you an instant password that looks exactly like you used
diceware, with essentially the same level of "random"-ness.

The program asks you to select a file using Standard Get File.  Choose a
file at
least 64 megabytes in length, with randomized content.  For example, a large
encrypted Stuffit archive, or a large PGP Disk volume.  Internally, both of
these
kinds of files look random -- in fact, they can't be compressed, usually a
great
indicator that their bit patterns are unavailable for analysis.

The file is used to initialize a small additive congruential generator (see
Knuth), which is used to select five words from Beale's vocabulary, the
alternative list distributed at www.diceware.com.

The program shows you the password in an Alert (speaking it aloud if you've
allowed OS 8.5 to speak), and also puts it in the clipboard for you to
paste into
another application.

Notice the kicker?  The file you select as an entropy source can be on a
CD-ROM,
offline.  And the "entropy" of its bit pattern depends on the random
contents of
whatever you've been shoving into the underlying archive for the past year
or so.
A fine kettle of fish!

Source is included, support is not.  Enjoy.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/random-password.hqx; 535 K]

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Date: 4 Dec 1999
From: Wolfgang Ante <artis@eunet.at>
Subject: [*] TextureMagic 1.2


TextureMagic 1.2 -- Create seamless textures with ease!

TextureMagic 1.2 is an update of ARTIS' seamless texture application for
3D, graphic design, website creation, and game development. It helps
creating seamless textures from scratch and from photographed surfaces.

Version 1.2 now uses QuickTime 4 to save textures in BMP, JPEG,
and TIFF file formats and load textures in BMP, GIF, JPEG, MacPaint,
Photoshop, PNG, SGI, Targa, TIFF, and FlashPix file formats.

The TextureMagic website is located at <http://www.texturemagic.com/>

[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/texture-magic-12.hqx; 2213 K]

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Date: 3 Dec 1999
From: Alco Blom <alco@url-manager.com>
Subject: [*] Web Confidential 1.3 - German version


This is the German version of the Web Confidential package.

Where do you keep your confidential data?

Like most people these days, you've probably got a growing number of
user IDs, passwords, registration keys, PINs, serial numbers, and
the like, stored in various places on your Mac or scribbled on
miscellaneous pieces of paper around your home or office. When you
stop and think about it, you probably have more of these pesky bits
of information scattered about than you realize.

Now there is a software program to manage passwords and the like:
it is called Web Confidential. It uses an intuitive, easy-to-use
cardfile metaphor which will enable even novice users to get up to
speed in no time. Power users will find a large number of options
to enable them to configure Web Confidential to meet their specific
needs.

Web Confidential offers 448-bit encryption.

Web Confidential 1.3 is Mac OS 8.5-savvy and is available in
English, German, French, Swedish and Japanese.

Web Confidential is $20 shareware.

Home Page: <http://www.web-confidential.com>

Contact: <mailto:alco@web-confidential.com>

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/web-confidential-13-de.hqx; 437 K]

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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:49:42 -0500
From: hazelNut/Tanaiste` <tanaiste@iname.com>
Subject: [Q] StuffIt Deluxe vs. Expander & DropStuff

Ken,

I thought the same thing until I found out that Deluxe 5.x supports
MacBinary III and Unix Compress (make as well as de-arch), which
DropStuff doesn't.  You already know the v5's of all the Aladdin utils
do better at decoding MIME types from email and Usenet better than
previous versions and a good sight better than other utils. On this
score, when I've got something to send BinHex or UUE to someone, I
sometimes do a "dry-run" encode of the item in Deluxe to get a ballpark
idea of how big the transmitted file will be. It's good to have it
around: my other encoder utils are stashed away to the four winds on
Zips.

Aladdin's promo literature touts the "tighter" compression of the SIT5
format.  I always found it more convenient to be able to pull a single
item out of an archive rather than having to unstuff the whole arch and
trash what I don't need. Like ZipIt, Deluxe (or even Lite) lets you do
this: the drag&drop utils don't.

I really should take a moment here to applaud Aladdin for making the
SIT5 archive format single-fork, instead of big-data/tiny-resource fork
like previous .sit versions were (by and large).  I think that may have
been the result of the (dubious) popularity on the Wintel side of ports
of Expander and DropStuff to Windows, but anyways hooray for convergence
-- at least here.

It' really depends on how much more you want from an Aladdin app whether
you get Deluxe or not.  This email just points out some of the benefits
of having it.

Hope this helps.

Steve Wright

> I'm considering getting StuffIt Deluxe but what I have been unable to
> find is a concise description of what I get in Deluxe that I don't
> get in Expander + DropStuff.  I use ZipIt to deal with creating and
> expanding zip archives, so that isn't compelling.  What is?
>
> Ken Laskey
> kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com
>

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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 20:55:09 +1100
From: Craig McFarlane <randomj@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: answering machine s/w

>Can anyone recommend a shareware app that my 603e machine can run 
>with my USR 33.6 sportster voice modem to act as a simple telephone 
>answering machine?

You can try "Apple Telecom" which isn't supported anymore (as far as I 
can tell), but allows you to do just this (and receive faxes, and support 
voice-mail-boxes).  Version 3.1.3 is the latest I think.  You should be 
able to download it from Apple.

cya
Craig.

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:03:42 -0500
From: Mike Kreachbaum <ickabod@iwaynet.net>
Subject: Busy signal with modem

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:53:46 -0400, "Norman R. Friedman"
<norm@helix.nih.gov> spoke:

>>snip<< We have call waiting, but I have included in my IP telephone number
the *70 which cuts off the call waiting. Everything was working fine until
we had to move the Mac with all its attachments to our new home. Now when I
plug the Mac into our phone line (which is working fine), I continuously
get a busy signal with the recording, "If you want to make a call---). <<snip>>

Norman,
Do you have call waiting in your new house yet? If you don't, that could be
the cause of your problem.
Try deleting the *70,  and see if you can connect.
Thats all I can think of. Hope it helps.

Mike Kreachbaum

Macintosh for productivity,
   Linux for development,
      Windows for solitaire.

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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 07:03:13 -0500
From: Keith E Gatling <keithgatling@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Changing Font Family Names

I've been playing with the demo of WYSIWYG Menus and considering it as an
alternative to MenuFonts. It does lots of things I like, but the one thing
where MenuFonts has it beat is in how it handles font names and font
groupings.

MenuFonts allows you to change how the font names will display and even to
create your own families. WYSIWYG Menus, on the other hand, uses
information provided by the font publisher to determine what the font and
family names are, sometimes with very interesting results, and definitely
without the flexibility I'm looking for.

So my question is, is there a way I can ResEdit the font name and family
name information in the individual fonts so that they show up the way I
want them to in WYSIWYG menus without screwing up the font mappings when I
move a file that uses those fonts to a machine where the font names have
been left alone (I'm assuming that as long as I leave the font numbers
alone, I'll be fine).

Thanks for any help you can give me.

keg

* mailto://keithgatling@bigfoot.com
http://www.bigfoot.com/~keithgatling *

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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 06:14:25 +0100
From: Hado.Hein@gmx.net (Hado Hein)
Subject: Hardware : Pin Assignment formac Prograph II.3 B

[ A copy of this message has been posted to the newsgroups ]
[     comp.sys.mac.wanted                                  ]
[     comp.sys.mac.programmer.help                         ]
[     comp.sys.mac.hardware.video                          ]
[     comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc                         ]
[     comp.sys.mac.programmer.info                         ]

Does anyone know the pin assignment of the Formac "Prograph II.3 B"
NuBus Videocard ?
It's for an fine 19" b/w that supports 1024*768 and with
hardwarescrolling 1024*1024.

Or does anyone can point me to some documentation, please.
Though formac has only newer stuff documented on their website and I do
/love/ this sharp screen for text. Pityly I dont have the docs.

So I think of soldering a cable to use some on board video mode for that
screen. Or does someone have such a card collected that you can give to
me ?
-- 
Hado Hein, Berlin, Fed. Rep. of Germany
      find PGP and http in Headers

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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 13:29:31 +0000
From: JIM BRUNSWICK <jimages@interlog.com>
Subject: How to open Word files on my mac ?

Hello everybody ;

This must be amusingly fundamental to the veteran Mac users.

Please, can anyone tell me how to open those email
attachments
that are text files assembled in Microsoft Word  programs ?
Is there
a software utility for the Mac which will open text files of
this type ?
I perused the Microsoft website but found nothing there.
Advice is very much appreciated.

Jim Brunswick   -      jimages@interlog.com

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:15:27 -0500
From: "bjorkman@voicenet.com"@starnine.com (bjorkman@voicenet.com)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #377

You probably moved to an area that requires 10-digit calling versus 7-digit
calling.  If the area you live in has two overlaid area-codes (like the one
I live in) then you have to set up your calling number to have the area
code.  In the area I live, I do not have to dial the "1".  Your area may be
different.  This would explain why you can dial 800 numbers and get a
connection but not your local ISP number.

Marc
bjorkman@voicenet.com

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>From: Norman Friedman <norm@helix.nih.gov>
>Subject: Busy signal with modem
>
>Hi
>Using a Performa with internal 28K modem. I had the Mac connected directly
>to my telephone line which is not a dedicated line, just my home telephone
>line. We have call waiting, but I have included in my IP telephone number
>the *70 which cuts off the call waiting. Everything was working fine until
>we had to move the Mac with all its attachments to our new home. Now when I
>plug the Mac into our phone line (which is working fine), I continuously
>get a busy signal with the recording, "If you want to make a call---). I
>have called the 800 number directly by phone and do get the connection
>noises that are associated with modem connections.  Everything, printers,
>etc. are working fine. Suggestions please  and thanks to all in advance.
>norm@helix.nih.gov
>

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:32:37 -0500
From: Roger Wise <rogerlou@dnsonline.net>
Subject: Netscape Navigator

I have downloaded Netscape Navigator 4.08 by using Netscape Communicator
4.61. It downloads 100%, but than when Stuffit is suppose to open nothing
happens. I can't figure how to save file and then unstuff it later. I
downloaded it with Anarchie and received the same result. Has this happened
to anyone else, and what is the fix if any?
PowerPc 6500
TIA
Roger

Hug Your Kids at Home
Belt Them in the Car

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 13:34:46 -0800
From: rfg@his.com
Subject: NN and Saved WWW Pages

	(B&W G3 running OS 8.6).  I am switching from NN to MSIE in an
effort to rid my machine of all things Microsoft in an effort to end, or at
least reduce, crashes, screen freezes and hangs.

	It seems that NN is not as feature rich as MSIE and I must admit
that I will miss MSIE. If, after I make the switch and remove all traces of
MSIE from my machine, my problems continue, I will most definitely switch
back to MSIE.

	One of the things I will miss is being able to save a WWW page
along with its graphics.  I see in NN that you have only two choices when
you save a page:  text and source. I have tried both and found that once
you log off and open the saved page, there are no graphics.

	Am I missing something?  Is there in fact a way to save graphics in
NN saved pages??

	Many thanks,
	Bob G.

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