The commercial desk accessory, SmartScrap, allows partial text selection from the Scrapbook.
To find out how many k are left on a disk viewed By Name, keep a small open folder in the extreme lower left corner of the screen, with just the title bar and 'k remaining' bar showing. Make this folder view By Small Icon or By Icon. Just leave it out whenever you eject the disk.
One great new hardware product from Apple is their carousel disk holder. It spins to give you access to 20 disks on a side. (They say 25 per side, and I can't figure out why.) Anyway, it holds 100 disks with an index on each of the four sides. Terrific, but expensive. $32 each. I have one and am getting more. It's Item #0609, Disk Carousel, $32, from Apple Collection, Dept. F., P.O. Box T, Gilroy, CA 95021, or order by mail, 800-345-2888.
What is the best way to back up a hard drive? Another hard drive, of course. Think about it. A tape backup system costs more and is less versatile.
ICON Review is taking knocks for vaporware ads in the Mac newsletters. Firms getting praise are MacConnection (always), Best Computer Supplies and Progams Plus.
For 101 Great Desktop Publishing tips, get the September 1987 issue of Publish!
Suitcase, which you stick in your System Folder, lets you have as many as 100 (ONE HUNDRED) DA's available in the Apple menu.. The secret is that all but a dozen are located in a folder called DAs in the System Folder. They only "enter" the System when they are invoked.
Free! Free! Free! A Macintosh newsletter. It's Diskette Gazette, which tests Macintosh disks for quality, among other things. You'll be getting it soon, because MUG or Corvallis has arranged for you to be added to their mailing list.
I receive a lot of MacMail with unneeded stamps. The second and succeeding ounces are 17¢, not 22¢. So buy some 17's for those extra ounces.
Also, diskettes can go book rate, which is 69¢ for the first pound. Add it up. Any diskettes or printed matter which weighs in at four ounces or more is cheaper book rate. Of course you can't include written material, letters, etc. Just diskettes and printed material.
Toy Shop doesn't work on the SE, and if you haven't undone the plastic wrap yet, don't. Broderbund isn't going to fix it and won't refund cash -- just maybe a software exchange. That's maybe, not for sure.
Adobe Illustrator won't run on an SE or a II until you get an unprotected copy. While you are waiting, sit around and let them use your money.
Smash Hit Racquetball has an excellent reputation as a realistic game, and a lousy reputation for its vicious copy protection. If you try to make an archival copy with CopyIIMac, it trashes it so badly your Mac can't even initialize it.
Hint for anyone in this fix. The offending disk can be passed over with a strong magnetic field, like a cassette tape bulk eraser. I suspect it will then initialize. I guarantee nothing.
If that doesn't work, mark it Valuable Data Disk and use it for a drink coaster.
Next chapter in the SS vs DS disk controversy: Apple Programmers and Developers Association is now sending out System and Finder versions on single-sided TDK disks initialized double-sided. Hmmmm!
If Chooser takes too long to come up, and you are on AppleTalk, disconnect AppleTalk. If that fixes it, you have a connection problem somewhere in your network. (Washington Apple Pi)
Passport lets Macs read and write to Apple 3-1/2" disks. Get it for $13 from Apple Programmers and Developers Association, 206-251-6548. This is a good outfit with solid Apple connections. Join for $20.
FKEY Manager screws things up on the Mac II. A fix is on the way. If programs fail on the II, remove FKEY Manager and PopKeys. The problem is partly System 4.1. AutoBlack is also a bad actor in the II. (Thanks, Washington Apple Pi)
Monaco 9 is in the ROMs of the SE and the II. You can't fool with it unless you are an Inside Macintosh freak. Chicago 12 is in there, too.
Lisa/Mac XL owners: If a program bigger than your 400k disk cannot be loaded, try networking with Tops to load the application. If it is close to 400k, use PackIt to compress the program to less than 400k, then unpack it inside the Lisa's hard disk.
If that doesn't appeal to you, attach a modem to your Lisa/XL and download the application direct from another Mac.
Sun Remarketing, P.O. Box 4059, Logan UT 84321, 800-821-3221, is trying to come up with an 800k disk option for the Lisa/XL family. They also market Lisas/XLs, HFS options, Apple III's and so forth.
Washington Apple Pi's Lynn Trusal recommends Apple, MacBottom and Rodime hard drives -- because each has Rodime guts in it. You can add Peachtree S20+ to that list. The Peachtree drives were discontinued and are now being backed by Rodime and sold by people like Ken Peterson of Portland MUG. Go see Ken, go see Ken, go see Ken! His price is around $650, give or take $20. Rodime guarantees for a year. I have one. I love it. It is quiet. It's a big floppy, and fast as hell.
Experts tell us that the Mac II color monitor is better than ANYTHING ELSE THEY HAVE EVER SEEN. It is NOT, repeat NOT, the same as the Sony MultiScan.
If your Apple hard disk won't boot with the Mac, run Apple's HD Setup from a floppy and select Update. This will reinstall SCSI drivers which may have been wiped out. You will not lose any data still present on the disk. (Thanks, Washington Apple Pi.)
If SuperSpool or SuperLaserSpool won't work, try leaving their files on the open desktop where your Mac can find them more easily.
A Mac can read Apple II 3-1/2" disks if you use Apple File Exchange, $13, from APDA, 206-251-6548. Membership is required, $20 a year.
One more time! To get a 400k HFS disk, hold down Option while initializing.
To get an 800k MFS disk, boot with Finder 4.1, System 2.1 and initialize double sided when asked.
These tricks are sometimes handy, so write this down somewhere where you can find it. I forget between times.
With System 4.1, don't use the Tops installer program. Copy Tops files over by dragging them Finder to Finder. Install the Tops DA with Font/DA Mover 3.5 or better. (Washington Apple Pi)
If your screen starts flickering or shrinking and expanding at the edges, and you don't have Apple Care, find a good technician and get your power supply checked now. You might only need a $65 repair instead of around $200. Chuck Rusch, of Everyware in Eugene, 345-6630, has a loyal following. One MUG member got his power supply fixed for $65 by Chuck instead of getting the whole board replaced.
Bullets from Zapf Dingbats font are available in a wide variety of shapes. Grab the one you want, Copy to the Clipboard, and Paste repeatedly as needed.
The lower case n Dingbats character in outline style makes a nice "check box" or ballot box.
Excel
Want to change the width of a spreadsheet column in Excel? Simple, drag the dividing line. But on an IBM-PC, you memorize a series of number/letter commands.
Excel for MS-DOS is coming. One surprise item in the package is a disk bank! Huh? A disk bank?
Yep. You're going to need one, because Excel on an IBM-PC takes ten (10) (that's ten) disks! Wow!
Imagewriter
To turn off bi-directional printing on the Imagewriter II, you can hold down Caps Lock/Shift/Option/Command (whew, I am running out of fingers) while pushing (that's everything but the thumb) the Okay button in Print dialog.
If your Imagewriter II prints light on one side of the page, get Apple part # 995-0005, a shim which steadies the platen clamp bar. Many service technicians don't know about this fix.
LaserWriter
If you are printing on the LaserWriter and get a message, "document is OK but can't be printed," click off the Faster Bit Map Printing in the Page Setup box.
If landscape (horizontal) documents on legal paper won't print correctly, go to Options in Page Setup and click the lowest righthand box.
When the LaserWriter doesn't print all of your document on a page, select Options in the Page Setup dialog box and check off the lowest box.
To underline for the LaserWriter, use Shift/hyphen in Helvetica or Times fonts.
Would you like better screen images of your installed LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus fonts? It's available. Adobe has "family" sets of each font which include a bold, a bold-italic and an italic version of each font. Installing these (if you have room -- another reason to buy a hard disk) will give you far more readable screen text. Better LaserWriter output, too, by the way.
These extra fonts help the most in word processing programs, although there is some improvement in desktop publishing applications.
Although I don't know the details, the disk of fonts is $50 from Aldus, although I understand that they can be downloaded from BBS' around the country.
Let me know if you have information on this. I have Times and Helvetica "families" installed, and they are wonderful. I haven't seen the family sets for the rest of the LaserWriter Plus' installed fonts.
Try this with Word 3.01 and a LaserWriter: Select Define Styles from the Format menu. With New highlighted, type in the word PostScript where the cursor is blinking. Now select Apply and exit the dialog box. Type in the following:
/inches { 72 mul } def
/rotangle 90 def
/graylevel .9 def
/rotationloop {gsave
0 0 moveto
rotangle rotate
graylevel setgray
(Corvallis) show
/rotangle rotangle 22.5 sub def
/graylevel graylevel .15 sub def
grestore } def
/Times-BoldItalic findfont 36 scalefont setfont
gsave
2 inches 3 inches translate
5 {rotationloop } repeat
grestore
(anything in this code which is not indented is a continuation of code which should be on a single line)
Everything you type will be dotted-line underlined and in 10 point bold type. The hidden text property has been invoked when you do this. The hidden text property must be invoked when you print out, or all you get will be the code above, and not the intended output.
See pages 279-285 in the MS Word 3.0 Reference Manual for complete instructions on entering PostScript in Word 3.0 (3.01).
I haven't tried this, so let me know if it works for you.
Want to use downloadable Postscript fonts? Most IBM programs don't support that. Also, if you trundle in to a LaserWriter facility to print out stuff with oddball fonts on it, forget taking your hard disk with the installed fonts along if you are using an IBM. The machine you plug into has to have the same disk controller card.
Macintosh owners don't have to even know what a disk controller card is, much less worry about the host computer having "the right one."
MacDraw
To proportionally reduce or enlarge in MacDraw, draw a square alongside the object using ShowSize. Make the square one inch each side. Now group the square and your object. Change the size and keep track of the reduction of enlargement with the Show Size figures. Ungroup and delete the square.
For a pica ruler in MacDraw, use 1", 6 and 6 settings in Custom Ruler. Each increment will be one pica.
Draw in MacDraw twice as large as your desired figure. Print out at 50% on the LaserWriter for excellent smoothness.
To make MacDraw automatically prefer PICT saves, use FEdit, MacTools or MacSnoop, search Hex for:
4880 D07C 0009.
Change it to:
4880 D07C 000A
Write the changes to disk.
Pagemaker
Don't convert Pagemaker 1.2 documents to 2.0 if you don't have to. They are a lot of trouble to patch up. Keep 1.2 around. Keep the old Aldus Prep on a handy floppy and stick it in the drive when asked. I often do this for clients whose original work was done in 1.2. Of curse I make their new documents in 2.0a.
Does your whole publication in Pagemaker shift, moving things on many pages when you add or delete a few words in a multi-page article? Select the block of text you will be changing. Cut it. Now Paste immediately. If you look at the bottom windowshade you will find it no longer has a '+' in it, denoting continuation.
You have just made that text block a separate entity. Changes you make in that text block will not affect any other part of your publication.
If you Cut and Paste the entire page, it will isolate that page from other pages, but internal relationships on the page will remain "workable."
To rotate type in Pagemaker, type it in MacDraw, rotate it there, save as PICT and import it into Pagemaker. Now you can shrink, stretch or distort it in Pagemaker.
Publish! magazine suggests importing a whole page of clip art into Pagemaker, then using the cropping tool to crop down to what you need.
Guess what? Pagemaker remembers the entire page in memory, and unless you need to change the selected area later, don't do it that way. It takes a ton of k for each page of clip art. Crop in your graphics program, or import the graphic into CheapPaint and clean it up. Now you can save k in your Pagemaker document by importing only what you will be needing.
Of course if you don't care how big the Pagemaker document gets, go ahead and import the whole page.
You can copy miniature Pagemaker pages into other Pagemaker pages by holding down the Option key while selecting Print. Now select Print Postscript for a file you can place on another Pagemaker page.
Create measuring boxes or text window shades with precise vertical measurements for repeated use in measuring things in Pagemaker. Leave them on the pasteboard area and drag them into the page to measure as needed. If you use text windows as tools, you can have the text define the use of that tool.
To start Pagemaker documents on a left-hand page, number your document starting with page 2 instead of 1.
If you lose track of reversed type in Pagemaker, type an unusual symbol at the end of the typed material. "Unreverse" the symbol. Back the symbol out last thing before printing.
Outline type is transparent in Pagemaker.
Word
To center a bold subhead quickly in a column of text, use this sequence:
Command/Shift (hold them down)
B, C, N, M
The N, M get rid of any indent which might spoil a perfect centered subhead.
To regain a flush left, Command/ Shift and N, M does it.
If your Word 3.01 columns typed to precise width pour into Pagemaker as narrow partial-width columns, try formatting column width in Word using the measurements in Page Setup instead of dragging the right margin icon.
Crashed Word documents have the type WTMP. Word cannot open them. Use DiskInfo, or any of a dozen DA's and FKEYs which can change type and creator. Change WTMP to WDBN. Now Word can open your document and you can save it.
