MARCH 2006 www.limac.org

NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP

LIMac was estab- February’s Meeting March’s Meeting lished in 1984, when the Mac was intro- Christopher Vozzo Northeast LIMac Inc. duced. Annual dues Region Account Manager P.O. Box 2048 for member ship is MARCH for Quark, Inc. will dicuss Seaford, NY $36. First meeting is and demonstrate Quark- 11783-0180 free. For information, XPress 6.5, highlighting President contact any of the Bill Medlow following: new features and migra- 10 tion paths from legacy [email protected] Membership Dave Brody showing the technologies. Time Vice President Donald Hennessy program: permitting, Chris might even Donald Hennessy (516) 541-3186 [email protected] [email protected] give us a sneak peak at the future, showing a bit of QuarkXPress 7 which is currently in Treasurer Technical Advice Max Rechtman Bradley Dichter beta. He will also discuss X-Ray magazine [email protected] (631) 348-4772 – the definitive guide for QuarkXPress users. Secretary [email protected] Promotional materials for the magazine 0 Bernie Flicker Program will also be available to the audience. twofl [email protected] Coordinator February’s meeting brought the stars to Rick Matteson LIMac as Dave Brody, Executive Producer and for the most advanced users, with prices ranging The LIMac Forum: rgmlimac Director of Media for Imaginova demonstrated from about $60 to $250) the software can call Editors/Graphics @optonline.net the wealth of features in the Starry Night on Internet databases periodically and update Mo Lebowitz Photoshop SIG family of astronomical software products. The positions of satellites, asteroids, and comets. Loretta Lebowitz Brian Revere large audience was “asking for more” even Starry Night can be used to plan an evening’s [email protected] (516) 997-5370 as Dave’s formal presentation ended around observing, highlight upcoming sky events, and Board of Directors: [email protected] 8:30 p.m., and many questions followed. link to related pages on the www.space.com Web Geoff Broadhurst Photography SIG Continually improved from the (Mac-only) site. George Canellis Murray Hoffman Starry Night Deluxe of about ten years ago, The large audience attendance demon- Al Choy hoffmancamera Bradley Dichter @dav.net this premiere application is still developed on strated a high interest in this type of software, and this author is willing to demonstrate some (Technical Director) MacBasic SIG Macintosh computers, although current soft- Fred Fertik Geoff Broadhurst ware packaging provides for the “other” plat- of the capabilities and possible personalized cre- 0 Richard Hickerson [email protected] form as well. ations at a future meetng. Rick Matteson Multimedia SIG This full-featured desktop planetarium can –Sam Storch (Sam is one of our long-time (Program Coordinator) Al Zygier display the sky from any location, at any time members and is a Professor of Astronomy.) Scott Randell [email protected] Harold Silvers of day or night, spanning the past, present, General meeting time schedule: and future. With visually compelling graphics, Produced using: Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology, The FORUM is pub lished Tex-Edit Plus, text- Starry Night can render the sky in beautiful Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), Old Westbury. Long Island. monthly by LlMac. All contents, except where SOAP, TextSpresso, colors or in screens suitable for mapping, charts, Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. noted, are copyright Adobe InDesign, and use at the telescope. The latest version (5.x) Bradley Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. Beginner’s Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. ©2006 by LIMac. Photoshop, Illustrator, Opinions expressed are the incorporates larger databases, improve the Featured presentation 7:30–8:20 p.m. views of the authors and do and Acrobat. tab-based search and labelling functions, have followed by announcements/raffle drawing not necessarily reflect those SIG (Special Interest Group) meetings 8:30–10:00 p.m. of LIMac. Contents may be an even more appealing user interface, and reprinted for non-com- can export still images, create 3-D QuickTime Multimedia SIG: Al Zygier will show how to make a children’s video mercial use, with due more exiting! acknowledgment to LIMac. movies of your cosmic travels, and more. The LIMac FORUM is an Photoshop SIG: Lead by Brian Revere. How to use Photoshop for animation. independent publication Users can select an object from the sky, MacBasics SIG: How to deal with e-mail and has not been author- magnify, get detailed information, or even ized, sponsored or other- attachments, plus PDFs: what they are wise approved by Apple travel to the object itself and view the sky from and what to do with them. Computer, Inc. elsewhere! It’s even possible to journey out- | In bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. ward beyond the known local database of stars, | The next LIMac board meeting pass through the databases of known galaxies will be at the Plainedge Library, (516) and view the large-scale soap bubble structure 735-4133, on Wednesday, of the entire known universe. March 15th, at 8 p.m. Currently available in four different ver- sions (Complete Space and Astronomy package for beginners, Enthusiast, Pro, and Pro-Plus Path Finder 4 still shows the way: represents in the larger hierarchy of things? You No! Thanks to Path Finder 4, you can bypass To describe Path Finder’s interface in detail, by Matt Neuburg , [email protected] probably know about Command-clicking on a the Finder in favor of a sensible, rational, and to list all that it can do, would make for a The Finder is the application window’s title to see its path; but some people, like gorgeously clean environment for working huge article. So here are some highlights. that Mac OS X users love my mother, don’t – and in any case you still have with files and folders. At every step, in every Path Finder lists a folder’s contents in the to hate. Take a moment to to do something (the Finder doesn’t just show detail, Path Finder’s interface and behavior three standard views (icon, list, or column) plus think of something about you where you are), plus you can easily get lost in simply do the right thing. Plus, Path Finder a hierarchical menu, and you can toggle display the Finder that makes column view because columns have no headings. provides loads of extra information and power of invisible files, display of package contents, you absolutely furious. It The Finder is full of unnecessary shortcom- that the Finder lacks; indeed, Path Finder can and “smart” sorting (which groups applications, shouldn’t take long! Here are some examples: ings, big and small. After all, we all have to replace not only the Finder but several other folders, and files). A folder’s contents can also Why doesn’t the Finder say where you are? Why use the Finder constantly, every day, so we utilities you may already be using to compen- be filtered, so you can view and work with (for doesn’t it report what folder each window or column must simply live with it –mustn’t we? sate for the Finder’s general weeniness. example) just JPEGs, or just JPEGs and TIFFs. 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | I keep getting e-mail attachments LIMac is off to a great start in 2006, with a that are supposed to be animated. great presentation from Bradley on Macworld: They open in Preview but they are receiving direct input from George Canellis not animated. How can I fix this? at Macworld and then Dave Brody showing Preview will show the individual frames of Starry Night in February. All of this and then Bradley Dichter a real opportunity with once again, George Bill Medlow an animated GIF-format file. What you can President [email protected] Canellis finding someone to support our raffle do is save the attachment and drag-and-drop [email protected] the .gif onto Safari. For a long term solution, (Designscapes, a landscape Design firm here on save the .gif file and Get Info... on the file, Long Island) by promising to purchase a new iPod each month for the next year. Truly a great again, even most of change the Open with to Safari and click the the updated features Change All... button and confirm to change opportunity. The iPod each month made for a 0 were still in place and the way the Mac handles .gif files in the future. very healthy raffle. functioning. I am a TIPS! Mozilla 1.7.12 (and perhaps other programs) happy camper.” can handle animated .gifs in e-mail bodies. re-edit your Address Book entry. Also be wary –MacFixit A combo updater | For the last couple of weeks, I’ve about allowing the options in Safari’s prefer- success story: been having problems with Internet ences about allowing AutoFill to use “User Security Lockdown: As we’ve noted on Explorer. I can’t seem to get online. names and passwords” and “Other forms.” If you’re a digital numerous occasions, | photographer (or re-applying the Internet Explorer was last updated in June of I have a iMac G5 (iSight) and I’m using 2003 and was discontinued on January first of an old version of Toast to make a copy anyone who shares most recent Mac images with clients CD OS X combination this year. Microsoft won’t allow you to down- of a , but I’m getting a message that via PDF), then updater has proven load it and won’t answer questions about it. You an error occurred because some files are securing your images successful for a should stop using it and switch to something still in use. I only see Dashboard and the is important to you. myriad of issues. modern, they suggest Safari. If you are using Finder and of course, Toast, running. While you want to MacFixIt reader Mac OS 9, I’d suggest Mozilla 1.3.1 or Netscape It may be true, make sure your antivirus make sure that the Thomas’ case is the 7.0.2. On top of everything else about Internet software isn’t scanning it. Spotlight may be samples you sent latest. He writes: Explorer, it’s default home page is www.msn. indexing it. You can add the CD to Spotlight’s to your clients are “A couple days ago com. Problem is that the Mac version locks up exclude list in the Spotlight System Preference. of high quality, you some weird behavior don’t want your cus- started to appear with this Web site as your start page. The work- It’s also very likely that your copy of Toast is around is to disconnect from the Internet, incompatible with Mac OS 10.4.x as you said tomers “borrowing” on my Mac OS X your photos without 10.4.4 system: Menu- pull your Ethernet cable to your cable modem it’s fairly old. I’d suggest the latest software for paying for them. items disapearing, and then start up Internet Explorer. It will the latest operating system as always best. That So, to protect SystemPrefs crashing look for (and won’t find) the site and report would be Toast Titanium 7.0.2. According to your images, you all the time, keyboard the problem (but not lock up). You can then Roxio, version 6.1.1 is basically compatible to can secure your shortcuts not working change the preferences to some other home Mac OS 10.4, but I already switched to Toast documents to any more, Mail.app page, something useful like google.com, limac. 7 by the time 10.4.2 came out. If you have prevent others from starting to act weird. org, or versiontracker.com. Then you can plug some version of Toast 6 Titanium, you can printing or viewing “I didn’t have the in your Ethernet cable and connect away. download the updater to version 6.1.1. Before the images. With time to check which | the PDF file open, utility/extension- My zip code in Safari from the AutoFill you get that, you can use a two step process gets truncated or generates a javascript with Apple’s Disk Utility. With the original choose Document update might have > Security > Show syntax error when the form is submitted. CD CD caused that. Repair inserted, click on the ’s name in the list Security Settings for Permissions, Clean Why is that and what can I do to fix that? on the left in Disk Utility’s window, and then This Document. Then Caches, Cron-Jobs You need to edit your card in Address Book to click the New Image icon in the toolbar at the choose Password – nothing helped. trim your zip code back to the old fashioned 5- top of the window. Save the .dmg file on the Security from the “Today I was ready digit number, which is what a lot of Web forms Desktop. Then after it’s done making it, you Security Method to perform a clean are expecting. Yes, a zip+4 should allow your can eject the original. The .dmg will show pop-up menu. In the ‘archive and install’ stuff to arrive faster, but their software doesn’t up in the list (on the left side) at the bottom. Password Security when I remembered know what to do with that info. On the rare Select it and then click on the Burn icon in the settings dialog, the often-repeated CD-R you can specify a last-resort advice occasion a Web form asks for or explicitly al- Toolbar and insert a blank and follow the lows for zip+4, not just because there seems to on-screen prompts. When that’s done, and you password required from MacFixIt: for opening the docu- CD-R Re-apply Combo! be enough space for it, then of course you can now have a copy on , you can quit Disk ment and/or you This s this a big relief: put in the extra info on the Web form. Don’t (Q&A continues on Page 3.) can restrict printing Everything works fine capabilities. THE LIMAC ON-LINE FORUM/MARCH 2006 Multiple folders can be shown in a single window to form sets for later processing. You can search easily created as in Safari by Command-double- strongly enough. It puts the Finder, and Apple using tabbed browsing (as in Safari), and files with or without Spotlight, through a quick search clicking. Managing all the possible drawers can Computer, to shame. Apple would do well to can be dragged from one tab to another. File field or a more elaborate search window. Running become awkward. It crashed twice in the first look at Path Finder, or even hire Steve Gehrman information includes Spotlight metadata, and processes are listed, and can be sampled or half hour I used it; Cocoatech quickly released a (its developer). In the meantime, Path Finder lets you change ownership, permissions (prop- force quit. There’s a terminal, a console (for 4.0.1 bug-fix update. And I soon discovered other is the workspace you’ve always longed for and erly, not like the Finder which omits Execute viewing logs), and a hex editor built right in. You small bugs, such as a volume’s name being incor- deserved. So download the 21-day demo and try permissions), type/creator, and creation/ can create and manipulate disk images, com- rectly displayed in a file’s Info pane. Cocoatech it, right now. Path Finder 4 requires Tiger, and modification dates; you can even swap the data press with numerous formats (including StuffIt, acknowledges that Path Finder 4’s documenta- costs $35 ($18 to upgrade from an earlier ver- and resource forks. which is built in), convert images from one format tion is incomplete, and they’re right: the help files sion), a superb value. www.cocoatech.com/ 0 A ºdrop stack (similar to the NeXT “shelf”) to another, and even do screen captures. are simply inadequate. lets you drag and drop items from hither and yon Path Finder isn’t quite perfect. Tabs aren’t as Nevertheless, I can’t recommend Path Finder

More of Bradley’s Tech Session | Quick local for- matting remover: 3 Utility and drag the .dmg file to the trash. ware Northern Softworks’ Tiger Cache Seeing plus signs on | My hard drive’s window used to open in your style names? Cleaner. Despite the name, works with Mac That means some icon view and now opens in column view. OS 10.1 through 10.4.4. Cocktail can clean attributes applied TIPS! The icon/list/multi-column view options are some cache files. OnyX can clean more to the text are over- set by the view options, which can be set on a types. No cache cleaning with TinkerTool. riding the paragraph In InDesign, you window-by-window basis. Just select Show View There are plenty of temporary files associ- style attributes. To can use keyboard Options from the View menu when the window ated with printing, too. For this, there is clear local format- shortcuts to apply is open and frontmost. But the type of view is Fixamac Software’s Printer Setup Repair ting, press Option as tracking to selected set by making a choice from that view menu, (with versions for and Panther Tiger) and you apply the style text: for either as Icons, as List, or as Columns. So, Print Center Repair for Mac OS 10.1.x and via Quick Apply. Add By default, when first I’d just check the menu. If the window has 10.2.x users. Various prices up to $24.95 the Shift key if you you use Option and a visible toolbar, you should, by default, have | I’ve got a new Mac and I just downloaded a also want to clear the character styles in Left Arrow or Right a set of three icons, second group from the file, with the name ending in .sitx but when Arrow on selected the selection. text, you increase or left, after the back/front buttons group. The I try to open it, I get a dialog box saying Quick Edit Style: decrease tracking first of these three buttons changes the view there is no default application to open it. Need to edit a style? values in increments for the window to an icon view. You can click That is a Stuffit X format archive file. Don’t reach for the of 20/1000 ems. on that to effect a change. Now assuming you Until Tiger, Mac OS X came with a copy mouse! Select the On the other hand, know all that and have made the selection, but of Stuffit Expander. .sit and later .sitx used style in Quick Apply, if you do the same every time you close and re-open the window to be the standard compression format on but press Command with the insertion it comes up in column view, there could be the Mac. Expander is free at www.stuffit. as you press Enter- point in between two other issues. If you go to the Finder menu com/mac/expander/download3.html. 0 Return. InDesign characters, the incre- and select Preferences... and click (if neces- opens the Style ments will be applied sary) the General icon in the toolbar, there is a Options dialog for to kerning. This value checkbox for the option to Open new windows that style. is far too high for Quick Object Style: precision work. in column view. Make sure that is not checked. The techniques In Preferences > That could override the setting. One last pos- described above Units & Increments, sibility is that despite the fact that everything about clearing over- change the Keyboard looks set correctly, it still doesn’t conform rides and editing Increments value to the settings. These and other settings are paragraphs style for Kerning (and, stored in an invisible file called .DS-Store. You also work for object missing in the inter- can use the shareware Cocktail, under the files styles. face, Tracking) from category to delete this file at the root direc- And here’s an 20/1000 of an em to tory of your hard drive to reset the presum- additional one: To 1/1000. ably damaged file. Then restart and check the clear attributes To speed up situation. Here is an example where the free not enabled by the object style, press tracking and OnyX and TinkerTool do not offer this feature. kerning, you can use | Option-Shift as you Option+Command I keep hearing about problems with apply the object style. (or Ctrl-Alt) together caches. What is the best program for –Courtesy of Tom with the left or right removing these troublesome files? McDonald of User arrows and the There are several choices. First and most Experience Team at increments will be comprehensive would be the $8.95 share- Adobe multiplied by 5. DAN DANGLO Be Quick about it: Secrets of the Quick Apply command. There’s more to the Quick Apply feature Everyone coming to the February LIMac than quickly applying meeting received a free ticket for our door prize styles. These tips will drawing and the February door prize of a per- save you time and sonal CD player was won by Max Rechtman. a thousand mouse- Take part in the March door prize drawing! clicks: SORRY, MY HUSBAND AND THE COMPUTER ARE ON “SLEEP.”

THE LIMAC ON-LINE FORUM/MARCH 2006 Top 10 Preventative Measures grey is best to avoid influencing your perception neers found that does not affect you and a side incorrectly. Your word processor and several By Bradley Dichter of photographs right next to it. effect is the new update breaks some function other programs have a spell check function, but (Continued from last month) 9. It’s more often best to keep up to date with for you. It’s nearly impossible to test for every they don’t share a common database of custom 8. The more stuff you have on your desktop, your software, as the publishers fix bugs with interaction with other software and on every type words. I’d suggest buying Spell Catcher from the slower the computer will operate, so keep each little update. Like an update from 10.0.0 of operating system and on every type of Mac. Rainmaker Research Inc. It checks your spelling the clutter on the desktop to a minimum. This to 10.0.1 They use the term upgrade for larger It’s wisest to first check the Feedback reports on while you type in every program, including the extends to the desktop background itself. A changes to a whole number version, like version www.versiontracker.com and the Notes and Tips Finder, Instant Messengers and Web browsers. basic color takes less resources to redraw then a 5.0 to 6.0. They tend to charge for these major from www.MacInTouch.com to read what other It comes up with audible alerts that allow you high resolution picture you dragged into place on enhancements. On the other hand, a minor people are experiencing. keep typing if you wish. It even has an optional the Appearance System Preference. A medium update might fix a problem the software engi- 10. It never looks good to type something spelled Ghostwriter function that records what you type Sore Eyes 4 This past month was a celebration for both of heartening results and suggestions from all us. We were finally able to attend a meeting of around, we created a stopgap solution for the LIMac. Since we have been active members for time being. Reading the manual for the HP nearly 20 years we definitely miss the meetings printer, I discovered that you are able to share TIP! but that makes it all more interesting when we Mac printers quite easily. Now everything finally get to see and visit with friends of long works!!! I plugged the HP printer into my cube Time-Saving standing, (notice that I didn’t say old) and to and set up Shel’s power book to use the HP as a Scrolling Tricks meet new faces as well. Thanks for the valentine shared printer when he wants to use that printer. By Rob Griffi ths Mac balloon. I was quite pleased to win it. Since he has a Brother printer connection with Here are a couple This month we struggled with rearranging an Ethernet cable, we have peace again. I’m glad of simple but poten- desktops and printing capabilities. The new to report that the shared printer works wire- tially time saving (or Helen and printer we purchased, worked beautifully until lessly even at a distance, even though HP says maybe just index- Sheldon Gross we upgraded to 10.4 and then everything blew that you can’t do this. Hooray for Macintosh! finger-saving) tips. First, If you use [email protected] up in our faces. We used wireless for Shel’s Our next project involves the iPod. We are the scroll arrows at Note: Sore Eyes site power book and attached my cube to the air- traveling out west and planning to use the iPod the ends of the scroll referrals are for your port with an Ethernet cable. Originally, the for podcasts from NPR as well as for music. The bars to page through information only. printer was attached to the airport and every- details are still sketchy and we’ll fill you in with long documents, you Neither the Grosses thing worked beautifully. Then Bingo! our new learnings as time goes on. Life in the may be surprised to nor LIMac endorse The printer stopped printing from either technological age is very interesting although find you can save any of the sites or computer. After myriad phone calls and dis- not so simple. 0 yourself a mouse their products. click and a delay each time you want User Group News to reverse your scroll direction. How? Well, We are pleased to inform you that there will tors positions remain open for any interested it turns out that the be an iPod in every LIMac raffle for the members willing to become more involved scroll bar arrows in next year. Each iPod is being generously with LIMac. You can express your interest to OS X are sensitive to donated by Designscapes, a landscape design any member of the board. The board of direc- “mouse over” actions company (www.designscapesny.com/). At our tors usually meets on the Wednesday after the if another scroll arrow February 10th meeting, Dan Danglo won a general meeting at 8 p.m. in the Plainedge has already been black 2GB iPod nano. Please be sure to attend library. These meetings are open to any LIMac activated. our March meeting, enter the raffle and per- member, but only board members may vote. Putting that in haps you to will win an iPod. We will have A copy of LIMac’s by-laws will soon be posted another (hopefully a different model in each month’s raffle. on our Web site for the benefi t of all members. clearer) way, if you click-and-hold on one Vendor Offers This copy will be in PDF format and will be down- loadable. 0 scroll arrow, you can All new and still current vendor offers for UG move your mouse Max Rechtman members can be accessed by clicking on the off of it and onto the maxlimac@ link below. You must be a current UG member opposite-direction optonline.net to qualify for these savings. New offers gener- arrow, and scrolling ally become available around the middle of will immediately each month. http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/ reverse. offers/vendorcodes.htm. Password: ugvendor You can save The LIMac offi cers for 2006 are as quite a bit of time, follows: President, Bill Medlow; Vice- mouse clicking, and scrolling. And yes, President, Donald Hennessy; Treasurer, Max you could also avoid Rechtman; and Secretary, Bernard Flicker. On the board of directors are: Geoff George Canellis Broadhurst, George Canellis, Al Choy, Bradley Dichter (technical director), Fred Fertik, Richard Hickerson, Rick Matteson (program coordinator), Scott Randell, Harold Silvers, and Albert Zyger. Several board of direc-

THE LIMAC ON-LINE FORUM/MARCH 2006 into a text file. Sounds like spyware you say? Top 10 Troubleshooting tips: 2. Preference files can get damaged rather easily. software which opens at startup. Under Mac No, it does not transmit this to anyone, nor does 1. Make sure you have the latest version of the The program usually can rebuild a fresh one at OS 9, you would use the Extensions Manager it save while you’re typing in a password in a software available. If you have older software, it startup. Under Mac OS 9, these were mostly control panel, or better yet, the now discontinued standard Mac OS X authentication window. The may not work with newer versions of the Mac OS stored in the System Folder > Preferences folder. Conflict Catcher, to find out which was the idea is if your program crashes and you have not X operating system. Never trust anything that Under Mac OS X they can be found in ~/Library/ problem. Under Mac OS X, I’d suggest creating saved your document, this safety net may catch comes on a CD, even a new program or printer Preferences where ~ is your home folder. They a new administrative user and log out and back your prose and save you hours of work. It can you haven’t even taken the shrinkwrap off of yet are now mostly called .plist files, before they had in as the new test user and see if the problem is automatically delete old saved Ghostwriter files may have buggy software, so I always check www. names of the program plus Prefs, Preferences resolved. If it is, the problem is not system-wide, after a set number of days to avoid filling your versiontracker.com or the manufacturer’s own or Settings. just user specific, so you can look in the Home hard drive. 0 Web site for a software updater. 3. You may have installed some conflicting Folder > Library for the culprit rather than the Other Stuff 5 Hooooray! all of this by simply We have a company that is willing to fund an purchasing a scroll- TIP! iPod to be added to our monthly raffle. The Hubble Planetarium wheel-equipped We will be adding a notice on our Web site and mouse (which I highly recommend, by the The Hidden in the FORUM. Measurement Each month we will be sending you a photo way). However, there may be times you Pop-up Menu: of the iPod winner, his name (our cartoonist, You probably already find yourself without Dan Danglo, below) and a notice of apprecia- a scrolling mouse... know the trick about tion to Designscapes (New iPods at each raffl e entering values in so remember this this year generously donated by Designscapes hint at those times, measurement fi elds 0 in the Options Bar. landscape designers.) and you’ll save You can change your yourself some aggra- unit of measure by vation. typing the appro- I post hints just priate abbreviation like this one three after the value (for times a week at the example, if you want Mac OS X Hints 100 pixels, you’d type Weblog. If you’re in “100 px”). But eager for even more there’s an even easier frequent OS X Help, way (and you don’t be sure to visit Mac have to memorize a OpenType Fonts OS X Hints, where bunch of abbrevia- By Ilene Strizver you can find daily tions). Just type your OpenType is a kind of superset of Type 1 and hints and informa- number, Control-click TrueType font formats, with added enhance- tion. in the fi eld, and a ments. It is backward-compatible with applica- pop-up menu of tions that support Type 1 and TrueType fonts measurement units (including design applications and printer will appear. Just drivers), and you can mix OpenType fonts with choose the one you other font formats without a problem. want and it’ll take OpenType also offers some remarkable new care of the rest. –Courtesy of features that require OpenType-compatible Photoshop CS2 Killer applications. (If you’re using the latest version Tips by Scott Kelby. of your operating system and applications, you may already have this capability – check with the manufacturers to be sure.) Three of these new features that are of particular benefit to designers are multi-platform support, expanded Let ’em know character sets and glyph substitution. Let’s look you’re a LIMac member! at them one by one. Our Famous LIMac logo is now available to be Multi-platform support allows the same embroidered on any wearable item. OpenType font to run on both Mac and High-quality embroidery is done by ACU Windows operating systems. This is a real con- Plus Custom Embroidery, located at 3700 venience if you use both platforms at work, or if Hempstead Turnpike, Levittown, NY 11756; you use one system at the office and another at (516) 520-1039. www.acuplusembroidery.com/ home. With the consistent character encoding index.html. 0 inherent in multi-platform support, many prob- lems associated with transferring documents Pay your 2006 dues now: from Mac to PC (or vice-versa) will go away. If Send your $36 check to: Long Island you’ve ever had apostrophes and f-ligatures turn Macintosh Users Group, Post Office Box 2048 into question marks and accented cap ‘O’s when Seaford, New York 11783-0180 0 (OpenType Fonts continues on Page 6)

THE LIMAC ON-LINE FORUM/MARCH 2006 Root folder/Library folder. limitations of the smaller delta updates like this, it. This does not fix the problem permanently, specific file types by getting info on a sample 4. Permissions for various folders and files can it’s recommended strongly not to allow Software only a program update can do that. Remember file and change the Open with: pop-up menu get set wrong, sometimes by the installer of the Update download and install the update, but that programmers are human, too. But they need and then clicking the Change All… button and program itself. It’s a good idea to run a repair instead to download yourself the larger combo feedback, so send them a e-mail alerting them confirming. permissions with Disk Utility to clear up any update and install that. The delta update might to their errors. (Continued next month) problems. As a precautionary procedure, before miss some things. 6. Rename bad files with generic icons to give and after you install a Apple System update, 5. Restart your Mac to clear a memory leak. them the proper file name extension. Mac OS say from 10.4.2 to 10.4.3, repair permissions That is caused by a poorly written program that 9 users have not gotten in the habit of using before installing and again after. Also because of does not release memory after it’s done using file name extensions. Assign programs to open 6 OpenType Fonts opening a file on a different platform, you’ll characters they often come jam-packed with. be singing OpenType’s praises – and saying For instance, some swash characters are goodbye to the never-ending game of search intended only for the beginning or the end of and replace! a word to avoid crashing into adjacent letters. Expanded character sets. When the glyph substitution feature is turned OpenType fonts can accommodate many more on in an OpenType-compatible application, the TIP! characters than the 256 permitted in Type 1 correct swash will be inserted automatically. If and TrueType fonts. An OpenType font could the copy is changed, the swash character will Dictionary help in Adobe Acrobat conceivably include old style figures, true- change along with it. 7 Professional: drawn small caps, extended ligature sets, swash When many alternates are available in a font, If you’re ever proof- and alternate characters, fractions, ordinals, glyph substitution can get a bit more compli- LIMac E-mail reading a PDF and proportional and tabular figures, dingbats and cated. Here’s where your brain has to take over: Address Updates: realize there may be symbols, as well as extensive foreign language make sure that the characters automatically Some people have a better word to use characters – all in one font. As type manufac- inserted by your application are the ones you changed servers than the current one, turers start to take advantage of this feature, want. Some manual tweaking will occasionally (so our e-mails you’re in luck. You designers will find it far easier to access these be necessary, although this is easy to do once bounce back). If c a n fi n d w o r d d e fi n i - “extras,” which previously required the use of you become more familiar with the process. you have an e-mail tions or access a extended, alternate or expert set fonts. Availability. address and have thesaurus by Control- not been getting our Clicking when using A growing number of fonts are available in reminders, please the Hand tool. Select OpenType format. Some are new releases, while e-mail aboutlimac@ Add Note from the others are existing fonts that have been remanu- aol.com (Donald Contextual Menu that factured. Sometimes these reissues are gener- Hennessy) and use appears. 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If you’re a graphic designer and work on OpenType fonts are ideal for users with cross- acquires mailing and already pointing the e-mail addresses defi nition for the a Macintosh system, chances are you typically platform requirements, or designers who from our members highlighted word. use PostScript Type 1 fonts. If you primarily do want to try out some of OpenType’s enhanced and no other outside Note: Of course, this web design, or work on a Windows machine, type-handling technology. Remember to check sources in order to won’t work if you’re you probably use your share of TrueType fonts. your operating system and design applications communicate with not connected Both formats have their advantages and disad- for OpenType compatibility before trying our membership. We to the Internet. vantages, but now there’s OpenType – offering OpenType’s advanced features. 0 use this information –Layers Magazine the best of both worlds, and much more. 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