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TUDOR, our Uniplex to Word convertor is built for doing high accuracy conversions, where what you saw in Uniplex is what you see in Word. However, in some cases you don't want that. A classic case is where you want to update your corporate style to a new font - "Anything but Courier" is the call from the users! TUDOR allows you to provide your own font mapping, normally specifying the Uniplex font and the equivalent font under Windows, for example Helvetica to Arial. But if you want to break the mold, lets say switch from Courier to Arial, how do you set that up? Edit the "tudor.ini" file and find the "[FONTS]" section. Here you see the standard mappings, you just need to make a couple of quick tweaks: What was:
[FONTS] NORMAL=*NORMAL, Courier, 12 ITALIC=*ITALIC, Courier, 12 BOLD=*BOLD, Courier, 12 SMALL=*NORMAL, Courier, 8 Courier=Courier Newbecomes: [FONTS] NORMAL=*NORMAL, Arial, 12 ITALIC=*ITALIC, Arial, 12 BOLD=*BOLD, Arial, 12 SMALL=*NORMAL, Arial, 8 Courier=Arial And that's all. Now you can convert 1,000's of documents to your new format at a single stroke. Recently this technique was used by a recruitment agency when mapping their old Informix database to a new Microsoft Access database. All candidate notes and CV's where in Uniplex Courier and the agency was using Arial as its corporate style. Post conversion, the CV's drop into standard MS-Word letters in the Arial font throughout. For more information: http://www.c2000.com/products/uao_wpcu.htm
If you have ever noticed that when Outlook is running other applications seem slower, or that you get a pause when opening Office apps, then there is a good chance the Outlook's "Journal" function is to blame. By default the Journal registers everything you do in any Microsoft Office application. This is supposed to help you track your time, but as the journal fills up it just slows you down instead.
So, if you want a faster machine, then you need to:
A) Archive the Journal. This step is optional, it depends if you want to keep them or not. B) Delete the Journal Select all the entries you want to remove, hit the Delete key C) Disable the Journal Select Tools, Options, Preferences, then select the Journal Options button the preferences dialog. This can make an enormous difference in performance - it will also save a significant whack of disk space too. More Microsoft Tips at http://www.c2000.com/mswindow/
It's a well kept secret, but actually SCO have been giving away single- user version of Open Server Release 5 since 1996, just yours for the download. The package includes OSR5 Desktop, the development system (C/C++ compilers), SCO Doctor Lite, and SCO ARCserve/Open Lite. There is also a free version of SCO UnixWare too. The only restriction is that it is for non-commercial use. For full details, including the license terms and on-line ordering information, see http://www.sco.com/offers/. More Unix tips at http://www.c2000.com/tips/
When you import a graphic into Flash, you can leave them as they are - which is a single element bitmap graphic. Or you can convert them to a vector graphic using the Modify/Trace Bitmap. Why would you do this? Because often the vector version will take up a lot less space than the bitmap version. It will also scale better and faster. The trick is using the settings on the Trace Bitmap dialog to achieve the right effect. If you just fire up with the defaults you will find something like a logo comes out alright, but a photograph is a disaster. So, lets have a quick look at those values: Color Threshold. The higher the number, the less colours in your final graphic. Use smaller numbers for photo's, larger for logo's. Minimum Area. This higher the number, the fewew overall blocks of colour. Use smaller numbers when detail is required - could apply to photo's, logo's equally. Curve Fit. Very Tight to Very Smooth, basically keeps the edges of colour areas very tight or smoothes them out to give a more curvy feel. Corner Threshold: Many to Few. Essentially how many corners there will be in each colour area. Many corners gives you closer fit to the original image. So, for a complete photo-realistic conversion you would use:
Color Threshold: 0 Minimum Area: 1 Curve Fit: Pixels Corner Threshold: Many CornersPerfect match, but a very large Flash file. But if you use these settings instead:
Color Threshold: 250 Minimum Area: 500 Curve Fit: Normal Corner Threshold: Normal You'll get a very imperfect match, but a very small Flash file. So in summary for photo's and the like bias towards:
Color Threshold: smaller numbers Minimum Area: smaller numbers Curve Fit: Pixels to Tight Corner Threshold: Many For illustrations or logo's bias towards:
Color Threshold: larger numbers Minimum Area: larger numbers Curve Fit: Normal to Very smooth Corner Threshold: Few More Graphic and Digital Image information at http://www.justkiss.com/psp/
Every now and then you come across a place where you are typing quite
happily and want to add a new line, you discover that hitting the
Well, nine times out of ten, you can use ALT-RETURN to get a newline
right where you.
For example, if you are typing in a cell in Excel, press
More Shortcut Sheets at
http://www.c2000.com/mswindow/
EDITORS NOTE: Kind of two for the price of one here. "Kibo", aka James
Parry announced many years ago (95 I think) when the Internet was but a
small and tender fledgeling that he would personally respond to
everything mentioning his name.
Well of course that was a challenge the Internet world couldn't refuse
and he now has his own newsgroup alt.religion.kibology and has enter
obscurely into some kind of hall of fame...
In the meantime, this message was from the man himself.
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