Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 26 Jan 01 Volume 18 : Issue 17 Today's Topics: [*] QXP PhotoBook 2.1.1 CD Spin Up/Spin Down problem freezing from sleep under OS 9.1 and... HTML Coding Photoshop 5.5 under 9.1 continued 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. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #17" ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 2001 From: David Lloyd To: Subject: [*] QXP PhotoBook 2.1.1 QXP PhotoBook is a utility that lets you create image catalog files using QuarkXPress. It is ideal for creating catalogs of images or clipart. You can quickly create covers for CD libraries or use it to quickly print out a thumbnail of every image on a disk or CD. Using PhotoBook you can create QuarkXPress files of any size and which can contain any number of any image format supported by QuarkXPress, including PDF and Gif. PhotoBook can optionally include headers and footers and picture captions in any font you specify. Special header and footer tags can incorporate variable information such as date and time, folder names and page numbers. Captions can include image information such as file name, file size, file type and creation date. Also, there are options for color, and picture box frame widths and styles. Using drag and drop, PhotoBook makes cataloging images easy. After configuring, drag image files or a folderful of image files onto its icon to create QuarkXPress PhotoBooks. PhotoBook can be told to look inside subfolders as well. There is also an option to batch create many photobooks at a time. Other features are described in the manual. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/qxp-photoBook-211.hqx; 1288 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:24:19 -0500 From: Lou Casagrande To: Subject: CD Spin Up/Spin Down problem All, I have been having a problem with my CD-ROM lately that I can't find a solution for. Intermittently, when I insert a CD or when it is accessed, it will spin up and down from 0 to full speed and back to 0 over and over, taking as long as 10-15 minutes to load on the desktop. During this time I can hear what sounds like a disk being read briefly at the height of the revolution, apparently reading a small amount of the disk before spinning back down (but does a CD make a noise when data is read?). I have seen this problem in the forums at MacFixit, but none of the posts has a solution. However, it appears that replacing the drive does not fix the problem, nor does reinstalling the CD drivers. It is either a software problem or perhaps a hardware conflict. Because of the intermittent nature, I can't be sure that using Conflict Catcher to track a conflict would catch it (a CD can be fine during one load and exhibit the problem the next). I don't know if it matters, but my system is a PM7300 upgraded with a PowerLogix 350 MHz G3, 160 MB (Ram Doubled to 256), Mac OS9.1 (but it also happened under 9.04, I'm not sure if it happened under 9.0 or earlier). Thanks for your help, this is driving me berserk! Lou Casagrande ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:37:47 -0500 From: Ken Laskey To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: freezing from sleep under OS 9.1 and... I sent the following earlier today Since installing OS 9.1, my Powerbook G3 233 often freezes when waking. Any quick ideas? Any known incompatibilities from 9.0.4 to 9.1 that may be a problem? and an additional problem that started with 9.1 is that Eudora (version 4.3.2) tends to freeze (and take the system with it when I force quit) for the initial display of email messages with embedded graphics. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:26:09 -0600 From: Al To: Subject: HTML Coding Doe anyone have a cgi program or java code that will auto update a web page whenever there is a change. I have heard that Front Page has such an HTML code that does that, but I being a MAC fanatic do not have access to front page. Thanks Al -- Remember "stressed" spelled backwards is "desserts" Mornings I check what works, then I plan my day ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:02:08 -0700 From: John Fitzgerrel To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Photoshop 5.5 under 9.1 continued Earlier I sent: 'I installed 9.1 on my blue & white G3 Photoshop 5.5 will not launch. It crashes when "initializing type engine". I installed the Adobe ATM 4.6 from the OS 9.1 CD, but that didn't work. I downloaded ATM 4.6.1 from Adobe, but no improvement. The Apple site says that older ATMs cause problems, but the solution is just getting the new version. ImageReady in the same folder crashes when "starting type engines", I assume it uses the Photoshop code. Adobe Acrobat reader works fine. I have a demo copy of Illustrator and it works fine also.' I saw this message in Macintouch: 'Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:32:38 -0700 From: Dana Galbavy Subject: System 9.1 Photoshop Problem Solution In response to Luke Brannon's problem with Photoshop, mentioned in the System 9.1 compatibility pages, I also ran into this and found the solution after much experimenting. After upgrading on my G4, Photoshop would open, but none of the tools on the toolbar would function initially, and then later I started getting the same "unrecoverable error" message as Luke, and was unable to run Photoshop at all, even with all extensions off. It turned out to be the Contextual Menu extension not being turned on in my startup set. I only happened upon this by trying the OS 9 Base Set. Now everything is working fine with Photoshop. I find it strange that I could run Photoshop with OS 9.0.4 fine without the Contextual Menu extension. Marty Landa' I have a "Missing Extensions" document which shows the following: Contextual Menu Extension - - INIT cmnu No place can I find this extension, including a Powerbook with 8.6 installed. Is this what Mr. Landa is refering to? The extensions folder has two contextual menu extension, but none with that name. John Fitzgerrel -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************