Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Printing margins > Connie User's IP Address: 169.197.30.112 January 23, 1998 (6:27 AM PDT) Hi Connie, I have had good results with the following procedure: Shut down your computer in DOS mode. Now type: EDIT C:\PMW\PMW.INI --- You'll see the contents of that INI file displayed. Then find the [Configuration] heading. Start a new line underneath it. (tip: hit the ENTER key with the cursor at the end of the [Configuration] line) Now type in a new line, EXACTLY with uppper and lowercase letters: MarginStyle=1 -- Now click on FILE and S, for Save. Click on FILE and X for eXit. Type the word EXIT and hit the Enter key. That will bring you back to Windows. If you open PMG again, you'll notice that your margins on a page will be 1/2 top and bottom and 1/4 both sides. If you want 1/2 inch all around, replace the "1" by a "3." Maurice. Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Copying entire program CD to the hard disk > Jimm User's IP Address: 169.197.30.149 January 22, 1998 (3:19 PM PDT) Hi Jimm, yes it can be done, provided you have at least 640 MB free. Put your computer in DOS mode and type: MD C:\CDIMAGE and press the ENTER key. That makes a directory on the hard disk to receive all the files from the CD.(You may select any directory name, of course) Now type XCOPY D:\*.* /s/e C:\CDIMAGE -- that copies all the files from the CD to the C:\CDIMAGE directory. The /s and /e switches mean "copy all subdirectories, even if they are empty." Give it time to do its thing, like 20 minutes. In Windows, uninstall the old PMG and re-install from the C:\CDIMAGE directory. Now type from DOS again: EDIT C:\PMW\PMW.INI and press ENTER. Under the [Configuration] heading type a new line: CDPath=C:\CDIMAGE This redirects the program NOT to go look for the CD in the drive but in the CDIMAGE directory. (This last line thanks to Jay. Thanks Jay for the instruction.) Now, don't forget to save the INI file after this modification. Click on FILE and S, for Save. Click on FILE and X, for Exit. Type EXIT to go back to Windows. Everything should now run smoothly. Maurice. Michael Benjamin (ncc1701msb@aol.com) Subject: Reinking print cartridges User's IP Address: 152.163.195.103 January 21, 1998 (7:23 PM PDT) Ink printers are relatively cheap, but the companies make it back on the ink supplies. You can pay for your printer many times over by reinking the cartridges yourself. After all, you don't buy a ndw car just because your tires are worn! I have used a company called INK2000 for the past three years. The owner is a professional printer and makes his own inks specifically for each and every printer! I have refilled my Canon cartridges more than 25 times each with perfect results every time. Call Calvin (the owner) and mention "Michael told you to call" at 800-433-2786. He's located in Canoga Park, CA and does business by mail. (Just to keep the record straight - I get no commission on this, I refer people because he is good at what he does and theprice is outstanding. Good Printing to you all! Jay Nabonne (jnabonne@mindscape.com) Subject: Re: the flea... (I won't list it again) User's IP Address: 205.156.204.220 January 21, 1998 (4:09 PM PDT) Lynn, Another solution is to hold down the Shift key and click again. That will turn the object back off. In fact, if you hold the Shift key down and keep clicking, it will "tunnel" through an object on top of another to the one underneath. Jay Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: the flea on the fly on the hair on the wart... User's IP Address: 152.163.204.139 January 21, 1998 (11:15 AM PDT) Dear PM Users, Do you all know that song about the hole in the bottom of the sea? You know, "There's a flea on the fly on the hair on the wart, etc..." Well, sometimes my projects are like that, an assemblage of two eyes and eyebrows, a nose and mouth on a circle in the middle of a flower on top of a background. I'm all zoomed in close, modifying the eyelashes, and I'm ready to move to the nose, but when I click I accidentally get the circle behind it and I can't find a neutral place to click so I can let go. Zooming clear out to click, then zooming clear back in has been a hassle. I finally found a solution that tech support hasn't mentioned: the tab key! Next time you want to let go of something without having to back out to an empty space, just hit the tab key and you're free to select a different item. Lynn Larry (Raptors2@Pacbell.net) Subject: Saving $$ User's IP Address: 206.171.178.81 January 19, 1998 (11:32 AM PDT) Jill, you are correct in not letting your newly refilled cartridge sit in the open after refilling past about 30 minutes. What I do is put the soft plastic tape that comes on a new cartridge over the print head on the freshly refilled one and place it, along with a moist paper towel in a plastic zip sandwich bag and seal it tightly until needed. I have found that the BEST way, realizing it is not alway convenient, is to reink the one that is in the printer after printing between 250-300 sheets (half a ream) and reinstall it. This prevents the ink from drying in any of the 64 or 128 micro-nozzles.(Cleaning them after clogging is a dissertation in itself). You only need to reprint one 12 foot length banner AGAIN to appreciate not running out of ink during printing. FYI. my personal opinion is to NOT use the cleaning process that is part of your printer. It physically "rubs" the print head nozzles and literally, prematurely wears them out. Take out the cartridge and gently clean the nozzles with a soft wet cloth and you will get twice the life of the cartridge. Larry Larry (Raptors2@Pacbell.net) Subject: Reinking User's IP Address: 206.171.178.21 January 19, 1998 (8:26 AM PDT) Hello again. Thought I would share a few more sites for reinking supplies and put my two cents worth in. I have been reinking for many years now and have had great success and saved/made untold amounts of money on reinking inkjet cartridges and dot matrix ribbons. Color ribbons turned out to be a loss (sigh) but black ribbons and both color cartridges have always been profitable. My favorite company has been Fillmore Refill Ink manufactured by the Fillmore Group located in Apple Valley, CA 92307 (ph 408-947-7511), and no I do not work for them. :) A few other sites I have not seen listed here are http://www.repeatotype.com/refills.html#hp8xx, http://www.nujet.com/, http://refillkits.com/, http://www.cfriends.com/, http://www.unirib.com/, and http://www.starink.com/index.htm. While I have not dealt with all these companies, the ink standards, I believe, would be comparable. Please remember to order the correct BRAND and SERIES # of your printer (due to differences in ink compositions). Good luck and feel free to email me for more insight to reinking. PS. Just highlight the site addresses in the above text and "copy and paste" to your browser's location bar to easily save typing it in. Have fun. Larry Lisamw (lisawil@sprynet.com) Subject: Disney site User's IP Address: 199.174.240.108 January 13, 1998 (6:41 AM PDT) The Disney site's address is http://www.disneyclipart.simplenet.com/ Frank (bakerf@duluth.infi.net) Subject: barrysclipart User's IP Address: 208.131.249.67 January 12, 1998 (8:13 PM PDT) That's www.barrysclipart.com Chuck in Redding, or Glenn Wright posted it the first time I saw it. Frank Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Mea Culpa > Chuck * Suzie-Q User's IP Address: 169.197.37.72 January 13, 1998 (5:42 PM PDT) Sorry for the confusion. The correct one is: http://district.moundsview.k12.mn.us/schools/hv/student/anngeleen/anngeleen.html Maurice. Daisy (phelps@gte.net) Subject: For Suzie-Q - Dog Pictures User's IP Address: 153.36.8.99 January 13, 1998 (5:49 PM PDT) This site has several collections of free clip art including 'Pings Dogs Clip Art'. (The _ is the underline character not a hyphen.) www.softseek.com/Graphics_and_Drawing/Clip_Art/ Gretchen (GRoose1876@aol.com) Subject: Fine art on the net User's IP Address: 152.163.213.111 January 12, 1998 (1:09 PM PDT) Anyone for some nice fine art on the net? Here is a site to try: http://sunsite.unc.edu/cjackson/featured.htm Scroll down to the artist you like, click on the name for a bio and selection of his/her work. I have used these paintings for wallpaper on my desktop, I have not tried to download them yet. Hope you like them! Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Looney Tunes > Gwen User's IP Address: 169.197.30.166 January 11, 1998 (8:55 AM PDT) Hi Gwen, click on your Yahoo search engine and enter +LOONEY+TUNES. They are all there: Tweety Bird, Wile E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian, Pepe le Pew, and even Foghorn Leghorn. Good luck. Maurice. Jay Nabonne (jnabonne@mindscape.com) Subject: Text Wrap tips User's IP Address: 205.156.204.243 January 05, 1998 (9:23 AM PDT) 1) The attribute "text wraps around" is applied to the object you want the text to wrap around, not the text box. 2) The object you want the text to wrap around must be layered "on top" of (in front of) the text box. 3) To have text flow with a little space around a picture, use the crop tool to extend the picture boundary *outward*. Jay Amy (Stocks35rl@aol.com) Subject: Proportional graphics - Rick & Tom & Lynn User's IP Address: 152.163.201.139 January 03, 1998 (7:48 PM PDT) Rick - Another way to proportionally increase/decrease size of graphics is to click on the first button on the task bar at the bottom of the workspace. A drop-down menu appears, click on More & a Confirm Dialog Box appears with tabs for size & placement. This comes in handy if you want to be exact. Tom - Thanks for the tip in holding down the Shift key. That's a real time saver! Also, thanks to Lynn (I think) who offered the suggestion to see the inside of a card, to click on the large size on the View menu item. You are one smart lady! The ongoing debate to upgrade or not to upgrade :( ) , I have worked w/the original 3.0, the Gold 3.0 & now the Platinum. When I initially installed Platinum on my new computer, I experienced lots of problems. Now, after help from this chat room, I vote with no hesitation to upgradie. There is little being offered in the software arena that compares. Soon we will all become experts in the intricacy of the program. Hang in there! Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: Platinum Installation User's IP Address: 152.163.197.38 January 03, 1998 (6:27 PM PDT) Dear Karenm, Sorry. I tried just to add the additional graphics from Platinum when I upgraded, but you're right, it doesn't know. You have to install it. I just moved my saved projects to another directory while I did the installation. As I needed them I opened them from disk and saved them in PMW again, but I find I have more problems when my USER file is full, so I like to keep a lot of my projects stored in another directory anyway. To install the National Geographics with Windows 3.1, you'll need to add another file that someone on this board can give you, but that's the only other complication. If you don't mind changing the CD's (I think it's worth it for the tremendous variety) you'll love it! Lynn Robin (rempson@btc-bci.com) Subject: Upgrading to Platinum User's IP Address: 207.0.83.198 January 03, 1998 (6:19 PM PDT) Karenm - To upgrade to Platinum over Deluxe ver 4.0, yes, you will have to install the Platinum version in order that all of the graphics included with this version appear in your Art Gallery. Good Luck! Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: Text wrap User's IP Address: 152.163.204.9 January 03, 1998 (1:47 PM PDT) Gwen, I don't know how these instructions will differ from what you've already read, but I use Text Wrap frequently. This is what I do: 1)Create a text box. 2)Type my text into it. 3)Click on Add a picture. Find and select my graphic. It will land in the middle of the page. Move it to approximately where I want it. (Because I selected the picture after the text, it's on top. If, for some reason I do it in the other order, I use the placement tools on the right to be sure the graphic is on top of the text.) 4)Next, click on the graphic. 5)Then holding down on the shift key, click on the text box. (Click just barely outside the text box to get the box.) (It is very important to get the box, not the text itself. I can tell the difference because there's a cursor if I have the text itself, and I will lose the selection handles on the graphic.) 6)Then, when text box and graphic are both selected, click on Arrange. 7)Then click on Text Wrap, then Text Wraps Around, then Ok. When I come back to the desktop, the text will have wrapped around my graphic. Voila! A few more things: Text will only wrap around the rectangular space your graphic occupies, not following the outline of the graphic itself. Jay says there's no help for that. It's important that you move the graphic clear to the edge of your text box, or you can accidentally split words. Sometimes I place the graphic on a borderless white rectangle to leave a little more white space between my graphic and text. I text wrap the white rectangle just like any other graphic, then move my chosen graphic on top of it and group them together. Lynn Nancy Booth (patchett@pilot.infi.net) Subject: PMG 4.0 User's IP Address: 209.97.9.90 January 03, 1998 (6:22 AM PDT) For anyone who is installing PMG 4.0 over PMG 3.0, I would like to share a valuable lesson I learned. I was unable to access the Deluxe Art & Projects CD. I had to call Mindscape Tech Support. I installed 4.0 over 3.0. For 4.0 to work properly you need to uninstall 3.0 before you install 4.0. Or if you have already installed 4.0 uninstall it and then reinstall it. I spent hours trying to figure out what the problem was, I was ready to return PMG 4.0. Now that it is loaded properly I see marked improvement over 3.0. I am very happy with the program. Brooks C. (brooks@cybercomm.net) Subject: Graduated Screen Backgrounds User's IP Address: 199.171.196.104 January 03, 1998 (12:36 AM PDT) Hi Carrie, The graduated screens that the manual is referring to are gradient rectangular graphics that are called "Top to Bottom", "Bottom to top", "Left to Right", and "Right to Left". I deduce this by looking at what they've used behind the train graphic on page 16. Use the aforementioned key words in your graphic search as well as the word "gradient". Other useful gradient graphics are called, "Inside Out", and "Outside In". Lynn, that is a great tip on matching background colors! - Brooks Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: Ctrl Key & Insides of Cards& color match User's IP Address: 152.163.204.138 January 02, 1998 (6:40 PM PDT) To all: Holding down the Control key also makes graphics stretch proportionately. (I was surprised to read that Shift does, too.) Hold down the Control key to make rectangles perfect squares and elipses perfect circles. Here's a great tip that's not in the manual. Brooks mentioned it a couple of months ago. To see the inside of a Ready Made Card, view it in Large. Then at the bottom of the screen you have an option of looking at the front, inside or back. If you want to make a background that exactly matches a color in a graphic, make a copy of the graphic, crop it until only the section in the desired color remains, then stretch or duplicate that until it covers your screen. Send it to the back and your project is perfectly color coordinated. Lynn Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: How to make postcards User's IP Address: 152.163.206.237 January 01, 1998 (12:49 PM PDT) Dear Ruth, Postcards are easy enough to fake in PrintMaster, but I can't see why there isn't a standard template. (I still haven't figured out why they have notecards, which as far as I can see are just greeting cards that are blank inside. Oh, well, they must have their reasons. I guess that's why they make the big bucks...) When I make postcards, I start with a poster in either landscape or portrait, depending upon what I want the finished card to be. I design the poster as though it were a postcard. This makes it nice and easy to see and work on. When it is finished, I SELECT ALL and GROUP. Then I shrink it to about a quarter of the page. If I have used a "stretch" text box, the text automatically readjusts. If not, I UNGROUP and change the font size to fit the now much smaller box. When this is finished I SELECT ALL and GROUP again. You can use ARRANGE to make the size exactly what you want before duplicating this group, but I usually do this: I create vertical and horizontal rectangles--two of each--the same size as the margins around the outside of the poster and put them in the center of the page to form a cross. This is my space holder, so that each "postcard" has as large a border on the "inside" edges as on the outside edges. With these in place, I make my "poscard" fit within the frame created by the outside and new inside margins. Then I duplicate or COPY and PASTE my group to make three more on the page. Just before saving, I delete the crossbars in the center. Since each "postcard" is perfectly positioned, chopping down the center of the page with a paper cutter gives me equal size cards. If I want 2-sided postcards, I start them in newsletter rather than poster so the two pages stay together. By adding a page that is a copy of page 1, the "postcards" are placed on page 2 in exactly the same positions, so this gives me a placement guide for address information, which I add before deleting the "postcards" copied from page 1. Lynn Hi, a couple of weeks ago somebody posted that error on the chat room. Unfortunately, the postings have been frantic lately, so it must have scrolled off already. I hope the person in question gets to see this. At the end of October 97 Jay posted the following: "PhotoEnhancer won't run if the file CTL3D.DLL isn't present in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. You can copy this file from the CD in \PMW16\SUPPORT directory to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory." My own comments: sometimes you install a new program after you have installed PMG4. That new installation sometimes corrupts PMG-installed files. Believe it or not, I have seen my share of ill-behaved program installations. They sometimes do stranger things. Well, to copy this file from your CD to the \SYSTEMS directory, put your computer in DOS mode and type: COPY D:\PMW16\SUPPORT\CTL3D.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ and press the ENTER key. (I assume that your CD drive is called D:, otherwise substitute) Make sure you have a space between the last L in DLL and the C of C:\... I tested this out by removing that file from my computer and, as always, Jay was right. PhotoEnhancer refused to do its thing. Maurice. Hi Frank, to add to what Chuck proposes, it is also possible to change the default font permanently. It requires you to add 4 lines to the PMW.INI file. Put your computer in DOS mode and type: EDIT C:\PMW\PMW.INI. (for those who have PMG installed on another drive and/or under another name, please substitute drive and name) Press ENTER, of course. You'll see the contents of the PMW.INI on the screen. Now type in these 4 lines, each separately on a line. I have separted them by dashes. Do NOT type these dashes. ---- [Fonts] ----- DefaultFace="Arial" ----- DefaultSize=12 ---- FontKSize=512 ----- Copy these lines exactly with upper- and lowercase characters as shown. Put the quotes around the typeface name (here Arial) Use any size from 4 to 600. Make sure you use a name of a font that is in your fontlist. Otherwise, it still reverts to Tiempo. In fact, if it still reverts to Tiempo, assume that you have made a typing mistake. When done, don't forget to click on S, for SAVE. Click on X, for exit. Type EXIT to go back to Windows. Launch PMG. This works in both PMG3 and PMG4. Good luck and let me know if it works for you. It has worked for a lot of people on this chat room. Maurice. Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: cut, fold, paste envelope template User's IP Address: 152.163.195.36 December 14, 1997 (4:58 PM PDT) To Whom it May Concern: I have created a template for those cut, fold, paste envelopes which are periodically requested. It's designed for a 1/4 fold card to fit. This was created with 4.0. Email me for a copy. Lynn Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: Craft templates User's IP Address: 152.163.195.36 December 14, 1997 (5:14 PM PDT) My Christmas gift to friends in this room: If anybody would like a template for a Christmas gift bag (wider than the famous Mother's Day gift bag,) napkin ring, placecard, tiny folded gift box, or triangular pillar table decorations (I need a better name for this one,) email me. They were created in 4.0 and you need to be running that to download them, unless I try Maurice's "convert them to a .JPG and send them that way." I haven't tried that yet. The pillar decorations are Victorian: holy family, Santa, chidren, etc. in case you have a preference. There's also a Kwanzaa and a Chanukah pillar ornament. Holiday blessings. Lynn Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: Accessing pictures from ready-made projects User's IP Address: 152.163.206.217 December 24, 1997 (5:25 PM PDT) Dear Wendi, In addition to copying and pasting as Maurice suggested, if you want to identify the graphic for future reference, you can select the image (click until its handles show) and then push your delete button. It will say, Are you sure you want to delete "Angel Decorating Tree?" or whatever the graphic is called. (Click on No, and no harm is done.) Later if you want to use that graphic, you can do a search for that name, or a word from the name, and the browser will bring it up for you. In 3.0 there was a feature which identified on the screen each object, by name, as it was selected. I'm hoping we'll see that feature restored in future versions. Lynn Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Margins > Richard R. Snedden, Sr. User's IP Address: 169.197.36.137 December 11, 1997 (4:22 PM PDT) Hi Richard, peridically we have to explain this one on this chat room. So, here we go again: It is possible to reduce the margins to both sides of the paper to 1/4 inch. On the top of the page, you can even reduce it it to zero inches. But at the bottom the minimum will always be 1/2 inch. This is a function of inkjet printers, not of PMG. To achieve 1/4 both sides and 1/2 top and bottom, (a more balanced card or poster results) put the line MarginStyle=1 in the [Configuration] section of the C:\PMW\PMW.INI file. Use a text editor (like the one you find in DOS) to do this. If you change the "1" to a "0", all margins will be as above, except the top of the page goes to zero margin. I use the "1", as it allows me to clip off 1/4 inch (use a paper cutter) of top and bottom after printing. That way I get 1/4 inch all around. Maurice. Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Blank edge > Mike User's IP Address: 169.197.37.86 December 24, 1997 (1:33 PM PDT) Hi Mike, we have answered this question many times before, proof that a lot of people are bothered by it. That blank edge is a function of your printer. Inkjet printers grab the page by the edges and the bottom. At both sides of the page, the edges can be reduced to 1/4 inch but at the bottom the best we have been able is 1/2 inch. The top can printed right up to the edge. The trick is to put a line in your PMW.INI file in C:\PMW, under the [Configuration] heading. The line should be "MarginStyle=0" or "MarginStyle=1". (no quotes) To do this, put your computer in DOS mode and type EDIT C:\PMW\PMW.INI and press the ENTER key. You'll see the contents of your INI file on the screen. Type in the line in the appropriate place. Click on FILE and on SAVE. Type EXIT to go back to Windows. The difference between 0 and 1 in the line is: 0 fives no edge at the top, 1 gives 1/2 inch at the top. Now, in the last case, after you print, you cut off 1/4 inch on top and bottom and you'll have 1/4 inch all around. Good luck, Maurice. Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Borders around photos > Robert Cook User's IP Address: 169.197.35.81 December 11, 1997 (8:40 PM PDT) Hi Robert, a borders is most easily done by selecting the rectangular shape. Then change the FILL COLOR of the shape to NONE. Then change the LINE WIDTH to the desired width of your border. Now adjust the size of that frame you just produced so that it will be larger than the size of your photo. Make sure the frame is layered below the photo. You might even change the LINE COLOR of the frame, or put a seond frame around the first one, and so on, ad nauseam. (meaning "till you're blue in the face") There are a myriad possible variations. You might even place a SHAPE of a light gray color behind all this, offset it, say, to the right and to the bottom, and use this as a shadow. Maurice. Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Everybody who has trouble with corrupted files User's IP Address: 169.197.34.78 December 11, 1997 (8:37 AM PDT) Hi all, if you have trouble with GPF errors when you try to access your picture album or your own projects, or when the names of your projects don't match the subject, please read this. I once asked Jay about it and he gave me this explanation: In PMG4, the USER000 subdirectory under C:\PMW contains all the information about a particular user. If there is more than one user on a particular computer (as in a network) you might also have USER001, USER002, etc. This information includes INI setting files, workspace files (the old _000OMW.WRK from PMG3 now simply PMW.WRK) art and project YOUR-OWN collections and any project and art saved to the default location. It turned out to be much simpler (from a programmers' standpoint) to put the number on a subdirectory, and stick all the user's files in there, than saving every user file, with a number attached, in the root directory of PMG. This means writing USER.INI, for example, as opposed to _000USER.INI. -------- If the YOUR-OWN collection gets corrupted (GFP error when you access it) you need to delete the files USERART.* in the ART directory under the USER000 subdirectory. Similarly, if the YOUR-OWN project collection gets corrupted (wrong project names or GFP when accessing project album) you need to delete all the files USERPROJ.* in the PROJECTS directory under USER000. --- Now, you don't want to delete EVERYTHING in the USER000\PROJECTS or USER000\ART directories, because your saved projects themselves are in the PROJECTS directory as well. You only want to delete the appropriate *collection* files. --- Now for my own comments and instructions: If you want to delete, say, USERART.* (meaning all files that start with USERART and have ANY extension) you are welcome to use the Windows Explorer if you know how to use it. But I always keep it simple (remember the KISS axiom: Keep It Simple Stupid?) I put my computer in DOS mode and type DEL C:\PMW\USER000\ART\USERART.* and press the Enter key. Similarly, if the remedy says to delete USERPROJ.* (meaning all files that start with USERPROJ and have ANY extension) I type from DOS: DEL C:\PMW\USER000\PROJECTS\USERPROJ.*. ---- If still in doubt, e-mail me your symptoms and I will tell you what to type from DOS. Good luck, Maurice. Brooks C. (brooks@cybercomm.net) Subject: Color Blends User's IP Address: 199.171.196.102 December 11, 1997 (12:41 AM PDT) Harry, do a search for color gradients. Type in "gradient" in the search box and you will get several types of color blends, e.g. boxes and circles. One blend that won't show up on this search is a circle called "Center Out". Type in "Center" and you should find it. - Brooks Jay Nabonne (jnabonne@mindscape.com) Subject: Re: Natl. Geo. and Platinum User's IP Address: 205.156.204.195 December 10, 1997 (4:24 PM PDT) Lynn, The 16-bit version of Platinum no longer has a file that the Natl. Geo. install program is looking for. To fix this, copy the file SMACKW32.DLL from the PMW32 directory on the CD into the PMW directory on your hard disk. Then Natl. Geo. will recognize it. Jay Sheila (moomoo@enter.net) Subject: PrintMaster Platinum User's IP Address: 204.170.17.51 December 09, 1997 (5:24 PM PDT) To All Users, Just wanted to pass on this message regarding PrintMaster Platinum. Yes, the PrintMaster with 6 CD's. CompUSA is selling this edition for 54.99 plus you get a $25.00 manufacture rebate. The whole Platinum edition for 29.99. Offer good until 12/13. It makes a great Christmas present. Thomas (sexton@abelink.com) Subject: Bob Stegemann > graphics CD User's IP Address: 208.158.147.83 December 09, 1997 (7:58 PM PDT) Bob, the same thing happened to me in regards to ordering PM4 Gold and then they came out with Platinum and 60,000 free graohics. All I did was call Printmaster at 1-800-888-9072 informed them of my current registered purchase and would like the Platinum version with the free graphics. "No problem" was the response. In about 10 days I received the new Platinum version and the additional graphics at NO CHARGE. It's worth the time it takes to make the phone call. Give it a try. Good luck. 1-888-287-3800 1-888-432-2742 1-888-808-4311. 1-800-888-9078 - purchased