Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #345 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 05 Oct 99 Volume 16 : Issue 345 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#500/04-Oct-99 Oops, mea culpa (was: couple questions) (A) How read Word into Quark! [A] Czech Mac Font needed [A] File type for HTML: TEXT or HTML Acrobat Distiller Apple 15 Multiscan AV Repair? Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* Dual modem connection to Internet edsiting sound LaserWriter II: Stopping Test Pages LP's to AIFF files continued MacGZip problem Making Karaoke file from CD Print Spooling Errors on B&W G3 sound sumex submissions 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. 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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Michael Bean, Liam Breck, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, and Shawn Bunn. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #345" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#500/04-Oct-99 TidBITS#500/04-Oct-99 We celebrate the 500th issue of TidBITS with a redesign of our home page,= including the addition of weekly polls and quizzes. Also this week, Adam= weighs in with the first part of an article on how he's come to see the= light of the MP3 format for music. In the news we cover the releases of a= free update to Retrospect 4.2, Retrospect for Windows, Netscape= Communicator 4.7, and FileMaker Pro Web Companion 5.0v2, plus cheaper= prices on Palm handhelds.=20 Topics: MailBITS/04-Oct-99 Five Hundred Issues and a New Home Page That MP3eaceful, Easy Feeling, Part 1 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-500.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 17:52:32 +0000 From: "Cyrus Roton" Subject: Oops, mea culpa (was: couple questions) Subject: Oops, mea culpa (was: couple questions) "Charles Arthur, The Independent" wrote: >There are commercial packages and even freeware >I've come across which lets you connect PC parallel printers to serial Macs. There you go again, mistaken again. Software can not convert serial to parallel. Serial data flows along a single loop, with the data bits appearing as pulses along a time axis. Parallel data flows along eight parallel loops, with all eight data pulses appearing at the same time. To convert from serial to parallel requires a serial-to-parallel converter (hardware). Trust me on this. I know this stuff. Cyrus Roton MITA tech Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group Senior Field Service Engineer, Data General, retired ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 99 22:19:23 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) How read Word into Quark! Will Wagers asks: >I can see the Word translators for my quark, but how do I invoke >them to input a Word file into Quark 3.0? also: >I have a 6GB drive on a PowerMac 6500/300. What backup systems are >recommended? Will: You need to have Microsnot's OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) installed. That's their set of system extensions that allows you to put bits of word, PowerPoint & Excel documents into each other and do mail merges etc. XPress needs it to place the formatted Word documents when you ask it to Get Text. There should be an OLE install disk with the rest of your XPress install disks. For back-up I recommend Retrospect by Dantz with a DAT drive. I think they'll do volumes that large. - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 19:07:55 +0200 From: nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de (Andreas Prilop) Subject: [A] Czech Mac Font needed In article <7talc4$chv$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, Rodney Schmidt wrote: > Our School of Music uses PageMaker 6.5 to print all concert programs. For > an orchestra tour that includes Czechoslovakia we need to prepare program > notes in that language. A Czech keyboard emulator for Windows exists. Is > there a Czech font for the Mac that can generate postscript for PageMaker > printing? There is no such thing as a Czech font. You need Central European (CE) fonts. Both free and commercial CE fonts exist for Macintosh. These files on Info-Mac also contain references to CE fonts. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:04:06 -0400 From: Ken Laskey Subject: [A] File type for HTML: TEXT or HTML Jacob Palme wrote expressing concern about media type text/html. As XML use and the structures for supporting use grow, the world as we know it will be expanded. The purpose of a draft such as the IETF one noted is to get feedback on how the world is proposed to change and to let application designers prepare for it. The issue is a bigger one than the Macintosh community, and the goal is to expand capability and not to break what works. Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:41:20 -0700 From: Doug Hardie Subject: Acrobat Distiller I am using Acrobat Distiller 3 to create a few documents for distribution on our web server. However some documents are not readable when viewed via a browser. Some people can read them fine. Others get errors or blank pages. On one document when I view it through the browser I get just dots for each character. If the files are downloaded to disk and then you run reader, they all read fine. I have set for Embed all fonts. However, on the one page that gives me all dots, I get a dialog about a font where the name is completely munged at front. The last part is one of the fonts I used in the document. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:16:49 -0500 From: John Mather Subject: Apple 15 Multiscan AV Repair? >I am having problems with the red color in my Apple 15 Multiscan AV monitor. >I understand that this is a known problem, but Apple's response to the >problem ($200 for repair) does not meet my needs. According to some >discussion on the Apple Tech Exchange, the problem is due to a bad solder >joint. > >Could someone please identify the joint to be repaired? Allan, Check this series of articles in MacFixit: http://www.macfixit.com/archives/september.99.c.shtml#scan15-09-23 The articles refer to an unpublicized warranty which I was able to use to get my Apple 15 Multiscan AV monitor repaired for free. It took me sometime to reach the right person at Apple (don't have that info here at work). I described my situation, which I assume is the same as your's..... at first intermittent miscolor as the red turns off and finally a permanent very blue-green screen. They sent me a box with a UPS shipping label. I put the monitor in the box, called UPS for pick up. Poof! One week later the monitor was back repaired. No cost! Now you will see from the MacFixit articles that it didn't work for some folks. Apple has all kinds of qualifications on their responsibility and your right to this warranty. But the bottom line is if you reach the right person and your problem is the one they have designated they will likely do the repair. Perhaps because it has been publicized on the 'net they were overwhemled and decided to be more selective. Just be nice and persistent. And Apple, if your listenin', Thanks! (Though I was looking forward to a new 21" Display. ;-) ) John *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* John Mather 6524 County Trunk K Blue Mounds WI 53517-0105 voice & fax:608/795-4636 jcmather@facstaff.wisc.edu *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:09:48 EDT From: Rjfield@aol.com Subject: Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* I would like to know if there is a shareware program that will decode files ending in *mim* or *mime*. I am using a Performa 6300CD with System 7.5.5. I connect to the internet via AOL. Thanks in advance. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:56:37 EDT From: JanusRuhk@aol.com Subject: Dual modem connection to Internet I am inquiring whether any company (or individual) has produced software/hardware allowing a Mac computer to connect to an Internet provider via two modems (a thereby double your connection speed). I know such software is available for PCs, but nothing for Macs. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Janus Ruhk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:13:05 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: edsiting sound Mr. Kars asked about programs to input sound files in order to edit them. There are several. Peak and Peak LE seem to be the cream of the crop, but others are good as well. There are three steps in the CD manufacture process. YO have to get the sound into the machine, you have to edit/listen to it, and you have to burn the CD. The last is the easiest. Toast is one of the high quality CD burning programs. Soundapp, soundedit, raygun and peak deal with the first two problems. Editing sound is an art, and one gets better at it with age -- like bourbon and tennis. It appears that peak le, though formidable in all it can do, is pretty easy for beginners to work with. There is a good list, BIAS run by Steve Berkley, the author =of Peak, and it answers all problems dealing with the Mac and sound. I am very satisfied withthe help, and the amount of help I have gotten form them, on and off list. In addition, Berkely is flexible. Michael B. Luskin ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 99 22:52:46 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: LaserWriter II: Stopping Test Pages >From: kuo@cheerful.com (Kuo) >Subject: LaserWriter II: Stopping Test Pages > >Hi all, >My Calculus teacher has this LaserWriter II, and I was wondering if >there's any way to stop it from printing a test page everytime it's turned >on... Kuo: You can turn that off using "Apple Printer Utility". - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:30:50 -0500 From: John Koloen Subject: LP's to AIFF files continued You can use SndSampler to record individual tracks. I believe you can do the same thing with Coaster. Or you can record an entire album side with SndSampler and cut and paste tracks together by segmenting and joining. >there's been lots of good suggestions about transferring whole albums to >AIFF files but as we all know, there are sometimes only a few gems on an >album. Anyone out there know of an app for selectively transfering these >gems to AIFF? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 13:53:53 +0000 From: Bob Hansmann Subject: MacGZip problem Many thanks for all the responses to me regarding my problem opening up MacGZip compressed files. The suggestion which seemed to be the only solution was to open them in BBEdit Lite. Once I get them all opened, MacGzip will be history for me! best wishes to all, Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 15:21:27 -0400 From: David Subject: Making Karaoke file from CD I teach at a school where we are often producing musical parodies of the school using contemporary songs, show tunes--along with some older stuff. I would be a big hero around here if I could find a way to rip a track off a CD and edit the sound file to remove the sung lyrics and use the resulting file as accompaniement to our new lyrics. Is there some simple/easy/cheap way to do this? Remember, I am NOT a sound geek! Thanks David Huston dhuston@drfast.net Laurel School Cleveland, OH ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 99 22:10:37 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: Print Spooling Errors on B&W G3 mreddy@glam.ac.uk (Mike Reddy) asks: >I keep getting errors when trying to print from an application. During the >spooling phase, an "Unknown Error" message appears, followed by the app >crashing (e.g. Word 98). I reinstall the OS, and the Laser 8.6.1 drivers >and occasionally this clears things up for a couple of print jobs, then >things go do-lally again. I am printing to a LaserWriter on another Mac, >and to several PC networked printers, using DAVE. The problem, once it >appears, occurs for all the printers. Any ideas? Mike: Assuming that this is happening in any application (not just microsnot word) Try turning off the desktop printing extensions and revert to the old Print Monitor. If that works then you've narrowed it down. Maybe try trashing prefs . Perhaps try using a different version of LW driver. Either an earlier LW8 or even LW 7.1.2 or 7.2. Good luck! - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 12:24:53 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson Subject: sound > Subject: sound > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 22:01:53 +1000 > From: Jkars > > Hi to all the readers, > > After having collected and read all 342 Mac Digest numbers, I actally have > a Query myself. > > I am in the process of converting all my reel to reel music, collected over > the last 50 years, into MP3 format ready to burn onto CD's for safe > keeping. However I seem to have collected an awful amount of noise in the > process when I play it back in MP3 format. > With what program can I delete the rumbles and noises and clicks and how > do I do it on my "beige"G3. > Also how do I convert my MP3 file back to AIFF for editing? > There's a product called Ray Gun, by Arboretum systems http://www.arboretum.com/ It cleans that stuff up specifically. BUT!!! Convert to AIFF first. MP3 is a lossy format, AIFF is not. If you have enough patience (and CDs) I'd archive the AIFF's to CD, you can edit, clean up and compress down to MP3 from there. Going Tape - MP3 - AIFF - MP3 again is analogous to Tape - 8-Track - DAT - Cassette ...lts of generational loss even though there's a good format in the middle. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:14:12 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: sumex submissions Does this imply that the submissions to sumex will not come to us as email any more, that we will have to go and see what is new there? mbl -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************