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From: chang hsu liu <cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: What program or any Photoshop plugin can read PC Targa Tips file?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:52:40 GMT


Dear netters,

	I am having trouble transfer several images created by PC Targa
Tips (with TGA extension) to Mac. I couldn't read them from Photoshop.
Is there any program that has the right translator to read these files?

thanks in advance. 

I will post my findings.

Peter Liu
cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com (Les Bartel)
Subject: Re: Word processor that does math formulas
Reply-To: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:50:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.135702.5116@infonode.ingr.com>, I wrote:
> 
> I am in need of a cheap word processor that will allow me to write
> fairly complex mathematical formulas (not solve them).  What are my
> options.  I find that creating the formula in Mac Draw and pasting
> them into the word processor document to be too cumbersome.  What
> are my options?  I am running on a 1 Meg MacPlus with a hard disk.

The following was suggested:

MS Word 5.0
Expressionist
MathType
Framemaker
TeX
LaTeX

Of these, Expressionist and MathType sound the best (features vs $$$).

Special thanks to:

mjerosc@nmrsun.erenj.com Michael Jerosch-Herold
jess@ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
ltzb00@markov.Kodak.COM (Peter E. Castro)
alf@clinet.fi (Aapo Puskala)

I got the MathType demo from the net.  It looks quite good, but is fairly
old (Copyright 1989?).  Does this product still exist?  The demo has a
phone number to call for info on the real thing (the demo limits the size
of the expression and places a big X through the expression when you
paste it into your word processor).  I haven't called them yet.

 - les

-- 
Les Bartel			lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com
Intergraph Corporation		Huntsville, AL
Electronics Division		(205) 730-8537

To the cat, the experimenter is problematic.


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From: cosc184z@menudo.uh.edu (David Alten)
Subject: Re: De-Fragmenting the Hard Drive
Keywords: De-fragmenting HD, DiskExpress, Speed Disk
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: comp,local
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:07:08 GMT

>Hello,
>	I have System 7.0.1, and Norton Utilities' Speed Disk.  I have an 80 
>meg hard drive that likes to get "dirty" now and then.  I created a High-
>Density system 7 disk with a RamDrive INIT on it.  I use this "Emergency Disk"
>to start up the mac.  Then I copy the Speed Disk program from my Hard Drive
>to the Ram Drive.  Then I run Speed Disk from the Ram Drive.
>
>	I have never had this fail on me.  I then Restart using the 
>Hard Drive, and all works well and smooth.

Well, I'll mention this for the zillionth time:  DiskExpress II can de-
fragment your HD without rebooting.  It does it in the background.  You can
even tell it to defrag according to a certain schedule (ie. from 2-5 AM).
Try it out, I think you'll like it.

Std disclaimer:  No association, blah blah blah.

-- 
David Alten
cosc184z@menudo.uh.edu
HE KUER!!

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From: Anders.Holm@elmat.lth.se (Anders Holm)
Subject: Printing file name in Illustrator?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Electrical Measurements, Lund University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:47:05 GMT

Hi there,

Let's say you have a large collection of Illustrator drawings and you want
to have them for reference on paper.
Is there a command/procedure in Illustrator (v 3.2) that automatically
prints the file name along with the drawing.

I suppose that you can always edit the postscript code to do this but it
would be nice if it could be done in a simple way.

There might also be other programs that can give me the wanted
functionality.

Pointers, tips, procedures, QuicKeys, whatever are welcome.

Have a good day!

/Anders Holm

********************************************************
Anders Holm
Dept. Electrical Measurements, Lund University, Sweden
Voice: + 46 46107532   FAX: + 46 46104527
Email: Anders.Holm@elmat.lth.se
Mail: P.O Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: SoundEdit - Conversion of data rates?
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:08:31 GMT

How can I use SoundEdit to listen to a sound
resource that was recorded at different data
rate (or compression rate?) than what SoundEdit
has a default?

Here are the specifics.  I got ahold of a sound
resource from sumex-aim for my son (Ren and Stimpy).
When I double click on the resource, system 7 
automatically plays it.  Fine so far, except that
that sound is very long.  Therefore, I wanted to 
use SoundEdit to chop it down a bit.

When I open the sound with SoundEdit, it opens it
at a 22K sampling rate which is *MUCH* too fast.
If I copy and paste the sound into a new window
(in which I have set the rate at 5K), the sound
remains the same, i.e. much too fast.  Basically
all this does is record the identical sound at
a different compression rate but doesn't actually
convert the sound to the new play back rate.

Is there a way to do the conversion?

Thanks, John

P.S. I have used SoundEdit to chop down the sound 
without the benefit of listening to it.  After saving
it again, System 7 plays back the shortened sound
just fine.  The only down side is that this forces
a trial and error approach to the editting.
-- 
=  Enjoy!          John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, ESMR Development  =
=  thanks          derosa@ssd.comm.mot.com                       =
=  a 10^6          N1111@applelink.apple.com                     =
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:17174 comp.sys.mac.misc:19147
From: osg@aeglos.hanse.de (Oliver Giessler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Shareware/PD Hitlist
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:13:59 MET
Reply-To: osg@aeglos.hanse.de (Oliver Giessler)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

The number of shareware and PD programms for the Macintosh is
growing from day to day and IMHO it is hard to get a overwiev
about the recommended ones. So, I want to ask you: Which shareware/PD
programms do you regulary use (Not just from time-to-time)? I
mean this in the category "Instead of a commercial programm  I
use shareware programm Z". I will collect the answers and
post them concentrated.

Categorys:

1. Textprocessing
2. Database
3. Calculation
4. Grafics/ Layout
5. Games
6. Sound
7. Telecommunication
8. Utilities
8.1 Virus
8.2 Disk
8.3 System extension
8.4 Printing
9. Organizers (addresses/ dates etc.)

10. The forgotten ones :-)

Oliver

--
Oliver Giessler - Fax: +49 40 538 47 68  -  Hamburg/ Germany
Internet: osg@aeglos.hanse.de  -  CompuServe:  100135,267
From: howard@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Howard Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Bookmarks in Word 5
Date: 8 Nov 92 23:30:13 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

I've somehow got a 'bookmark' in a MS Word 5 document. I don't know how
it got there. It is represented as a carriage return with a grey box
after.

I can't delete this bookmark, nor can I find anything in manuals or
online help to explain how I created it or how I can get rid of it.

Can anyone help? Email please.

Howard

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+  Howard Ross,                                                      +
+  Computer Centre, University of Auckland,                          +
+  Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand      FAX: +64 9 373-7425 +
+  e-mail : HA.Ross@aukuni.ac.nz    Phone : +64 9 373-7999 ext. 5830 +
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From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
Subject: Re: Word processor that does math formulas
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:52:00 GMT

In article <P.Etheridge-091192162720@130.123.3.79>, news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes...
> 
>I beg to differ...  I don't beleive the writer can have explored the
>preferences options available in either the Word 5 Equation Editor,
>MathType (upon which the latter is based) or Expressionist.  These give an
>incredible degree of control, the level of which would be extremely
>time-consuming, tedious and difficult to duplicate with Word's formula
>formatting.  (Text omitted...)

Having used both the Formula expressions and the Equation Editor extensively, I 
agree on the whole.  However, if you try to take parts of these equations into 
your text, you start losing the advantage.  For example, you might have a 
complicated expression, with a term "L sub ir super 3", looking just lovely in 
the equation, but the text goes on to say "...where L sub ir etc is...", and if 
you use the Eq.Ed to put the L sub ir etc in, in the text line, it goes as a 
graphic, the baseline doesn't always come out right, and the line separation 
often increases much more that if you use the Formula expression.  But mix and 
match isn't so great either, because the Eq.Ed uses italics for its symbols, as 
it should, but then you have to italize all the symbols in your text 
expressions by hand.  

I've also found that if you want to use a bitmap font in your Eq. Editor 
expression, it won't print. (I don't know why you would want to, but you can
use the Editor for some fancy text expressions, so perhaps you have some poetry
designed by the Editor, and you want a flowery font you have only in bitmap) 
The font will print from the Word text, but NOT from the Object inserted by the 
Eq. Editor. (At least, it won't on two different laser printers I've tried, 
including an Apple IINTX.)

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
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From: fowell@netcom.com (Richard A. Fowell)
Subject: Re: Screen Shot program
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:26:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.064556.26881@cc.gatech.edu> oh@himalaya.gatech.edu
(Yong-Chul Oh) writes:
>
>What is the best screen shot program?
>Is there any extended version of original Command-Shift-3?
>
Depends on what you mean by "best" <grin>. Probably
Flash-It 2.2(cheap), Image Grabber 3.0(robust), or ScreenShot 1.2( easy to use).

Flash-It 2.2 is a shareware utility ($11), that is the cheapest, no-risk
solution that offers significant improvements beyond CMD-SHIFT-3. You
should be able to  ftp or download it from the usual sources. If it
does what you want, you're done - pay the man. You can capture the whole screen,
just the front window, or do marquee selection with the mouse. You can
capture pull-down menus, change the trigger key, capture color as B/W
only (as an option), and the image may be saved to disk, Clipboard,
Scrapbook, or direct to the printer. You can tell it to include the cursor
in the image, or not, as you please.

Image Grabber (ca. $31 mail-order) is the "Mountie" of screen capture programs.
If it can't snag an image, nothing else will. If Flash-it isn't enough for you
because it can't grab the images you want, Image Grabber is the program for you.
I've captured frames of animations, CDEV credit screens, screen saver images,
arcade game screens, pre-MultiFinder game screens and other notoriously shy
images with it. It has everything that Flash-It does plus its incredible
robustness. It also lets you save in MacPaint format, if you like, or as
a resource file (PICT/PICT2 is the default format for these programs).

ScreenShot 1.2(ca. $31 mail-order) is easiest to use, and is incredibly slick at
capturing pull-down (even hierarchical) menus. It captures them clean - giving
you an irregular image with just the menus. If you want to build
quick- reference sheets showing all the menus of an application pulled down,
ScreenShot is your program.
ScreenShot is easiest to use because it prompts you for everything - once you
trigger it, you get an on-screen palette that has all your choices on it.
It's the author's 6th screen capture program, so he's had lots of experience.
It's better on "shy" images than Flash-It, but nowhere near as good as
Image Grabber.

There are LOTS of screen capture utilities - My article "Capturing Screen
Images", BMUG Newsletter, Spring 1992, pp. 217-230, discusses 12 of them in
some detail, with 14 references.

If you want more info, or have trouble finding a source for these, email me.

fowell@netcom.com (Richard A. Fowell)
If
From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: BeagleWorks vs. ClarisWorks question
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:30:09 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

OK, I bought BeagleWorks for my sister-in-law's SE. So far I've been
trying it on my IIcx. I'm impressed at what you get for $69! (Price
was $184 discount, but they're closing it out now that it has been
acquired by WordPerfect Corp. I called for tech support and got
WordPerfect, who say that they'll be releasing it under the name
WordPerfect Works - or something like that - in a few weeks.) It 
contains word processing, drawing, painting, spreadsheet+charting,
database, and communications. All modules support color and have
a common interface including a "toolbar" ribbon.

The wordprocessing module ties everything together by serving as a 
desktop publishing tool. You can place drawings, spreadsheets, etc.
anywhere you want on the page, and have text wrap around it, etc.
The only thing missing is that you can't place additional wordprocessing
"frames" in the same way. Instead you are restricted to single or
multiple-column text. Maybe this isn't such a disadvantage -- it
is probably easier to use than a true frame-based approach like
in PageMaker, RagTime, etc.

All modules also support publish & subscribe, under system 6.0.7 as
well as system 7. This works well, in fact it seems to work better
than BeagleWorks claims it does. That is, with the database module,
the manual says that if you subscribe to a form view of a given 
record, then sort or otherwise change the sequence of records, the
subscriber contents will change. As far as I could tell, though, 
this was not the case. The subscriber kept showing the correct
record even after sorting the layout and saving the database in
its new ordering.

I was almost thinking of selling off my copies of WriteNow, MacDraft,
Filemaker Pro, and RagTime 3 and replacing them with BeagleWorks.
(Especially since none of them is fully upgraded and none supports
publish and subscribe.) Except for the following reasons:

(1) BeagleWorks modules, though they contain lots of features, don't
quite have the full feature set of stand-alone programs like those
I mentioned above. Actually, I don't need that many features myself,
but I'm used to being able to lookup info from one database to another
like in Filemaker, and WriteNow has a bigger Thesaurus, etc.

(2) BeagleWorks runs very slow on my IIcx, at least in terms of
switching from one module to another. Also, publish and subscribe is
very slow. I sure hope it doesn't bog down my sister-in-law's SE
when I install it...

(3) The individual BeagleWorks modules don't quite have the "feel"
of a good special-purpose program like MacDraft of Filemaker. 
BeagleWorks' greatest strength - consistency among modules - is
also its greatest weakness. I like programs where the interface
is designed in a single-minded fashion to do the job intuitively.

-RG
-- 
Ralph Gonzalez, Computer Science, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ
Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
--
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Clarisworks or MS Works?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 12:57:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

jdt@voodoo.ca.boeing.com (Jim Tomlinson) writes:
>     So, I'm finally giving up on keeping up with the Word and Excel
> updates; I just can't afford it for the minimal work I do at home.
> Both MS and Claris want to upgrade me cheaply from my old 1.0 copy of
> MS Works, and I'm in a quandry.  My gut tells me to go with Claris
> (great reviews; don't have to send Bill any more money), but I'm always
> having to get stuff into MS format (Word/Excel) to give to others, and
> I worry about Claris' import/export capabilities relative to that of a
> MS application.

I use Word for Windows and Excel for Windows at work, ClarisWorks at home.  I
take WP documents from ClarisWorks and export them as RTF, then import as RTF
on WinWord without trouble.  Similarly, ClarisWorks -> SYLK -> Excel is the
route for spreadsheets.

ClarisWorks has a whole bunch of Word format converters, but they're all for
Mac versions of Word or Word for DOS, not Word for Windows.  I've tried
things like ClarisWorks -> Word 5 for Mac -> Word for Windows, and they don't
seem to work; the WinWord translator doesn't recognize the file.  So I'm
sticking to RTF.

The only problem with using ClarisWorks -> RTF is that pasted-in pictures are
Mac PICTs, which Word for Windows doesn't recognize.  Presumably Word for the
Mac wouldn't have that trouble.

The major shortcoming for ClarisWorks is that graphics documents can only be
exported as PICT.  I'd really like a few more options, as converting the PICT
to a huge 300dpi GIF file isn't really on...

>  I haven't seen any reviews of the new MS Works, so I'm
> kind of in the dark about what it's way-cool new features are.

From the pictures I've seen, it's plastered all over with horrible 3D-effect
icons and buttons.  Yuck.  Don't let Microsoft spread that Windows disease to
the Mac.


mathew
-- 
Macintosh System 7.1 -- just say no.  If I'd wanted to pay $50 for OS upgrades
I'd have bought an IBM.
From: Gretchen_C._Macdowall@fourd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Inexpensive Anim Prog?
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:17:23 GMT
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS

<<Are there any relatively inexpensive animation programs that are easy enough
to use (and fast enough) that one can make simple, short movies relatively
easily?>>
   
One, that I'm not sure is still around but maybe you could get it used, is
Studio/1 by Electronic Arts. It's black and white only but it has alot of nice
features and was less than $100 when I got it a couple of years ago.
   The other one that I know is still around is AddMotion by Motion Works.
It's HyperCard based, but it supports color and has an onion-skin feature that
it very nice. That one, I think is between $100 and $150. There is also a more
expensive stand-alone by the same company.
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From: blake@acsu.buffalo.edu (Brian C. Blake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: LaTeX/TeX Information
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:55:17 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci


Well, I got a few different replies on how to download OzTeX from midway, but
they all boil down to this:

1 - Download all the .hqx files in ASCII ftp format
2 - Change to BINARY format (on the ftp system on our mainframe, you just type
    'binary')
3 - Download the .sit files (the PKXXX.SIT files are the ones you really need)
    the same way as .hqx files (using mget or just get)
4 - Disconnect from the ftp site
5 - Download the .hqx files to your Mac (using Versaterm, Microphone II, etc)
    by using a TEXT/ASCII format for your protocol (Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem,
    etc)
6 - Download the .sit files to your Mac (using same as above) by using a
    BINARY format for your protocol (again, using one of the ones from above)
7 - Use Compactor or StuffIt to decode the .hqx files, which will then result
    in .sit files which you can directly open from Compactor or StuffIt.
8 - Use a program like MacBinary (obtainable from nic.funet.fi in the pub/mac/
    comm directory) to "filter" the "binary" file you downloaded to a proper
    Macintosh binary file.
9 - Now, use Compactor or StuffIt (if the files don't show up in the Open
    windows of EITHER program, hold down the Option key before highlighting
    the Open option) to uncompress the .sit files.

That should do it...I tried it and it worked ok.

Also, here is a list of the sources I received from numerous people:

OzTeX - Public domain TeX/LaTeX compiler/viewer
	Available from : ftp site midway.uchicago.edu
			 pub/OzTeX/oztex directory
	Also available from : ftp site askhp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de
			      (can't remember the directory name)

DirectTex - Shareware (for $100) TeX - better than OzTeX because it has BibTeX,
	    Metafont, MakeIndex, etc
	    Available from : Niord.SHSU.edu
			OR : ymir.claremont.edu
	    (you may want to check Archie for it because it is supposedly
	     pretty new)

Textures - Commercial TeX - best used from opinions of other users
	   (student price is $195 US - they take Master/Visa and will ship
	    UPS - call for more details)
	   Available from : Blue Sky Research, Portland, Oregon
			    1-800-622-8398

Thanks to the following specifically:
	o Lee Larson (lmlars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu)
	o Barry Smith (barry@reed.edu)
	o Michael Jerosch-Herold (mjerosc%erenj.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu)
	o Deane Yang (dy@shire.math.columbia.edu)

And thanks to ANYONE else help me on this little project!!!!!
MUCH appreciated!

Brian Blake
blake@cs.buffalo.edu
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From: joelsp@microsoft.com (Joel Spolsky)
Subject: Re: Can MS-Works import Excel and Word files?
Date: 06 Nov 92 04:23:16 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <...> wdburns@mtu.edu (BURNS) writes:
>I'm looking at getting MS-Works in my office.  Can it import Excel and Word
>files into it?


Yes.


Joel Spolsky
joelsp@microsoft.com

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