Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Printing the color gold > Diana User's IP Address: 169.197.34.122 February 23, 1998 (7:51 PM PDT) Hi Diana, place the picture or the shape on the screen. Right-click in the middle of it. The cursor will become a four-way arrow. A small menu will appear. In that menu select ATTRIBUTES. From the list of colors in the next menu, you can select gold, silver and even copper. Make sure when you print that your density, both bitmap and vector, is set on at least 1000. These metallic colors tend to print a little on the light side. Maurice. Jill (Uppsala1@aol.com) Subject: Reinking User's IP Address: 152.200.24.45 February 23, 1998 (5:33 PM PDT)Sandi...yes...I have the kit from refillkits.com. Perhaps you have followed my commentary to Larry on reinking. Larry just poster his own reinking company. ... Fillmore Refill Ink ....phone #408-947-7511. I am going to try them next and I'll tell you why. You will receive a syringe with the kit...only one. It is large and bulky and you have to fill one color, run to the sink, wash out the color, dry it and go to the next color. You have to do all of this quickly so that the cartridge doesn't dry out. The ink loads VERY slowly regardless of your syringe. Larry's place seems to offer a better set-up for the syringe as well as a few better details. I have an Epson 600 printer which has difficult cartridges to fill due to the air bubbles that can get trapped. At this point, I have reinked about six cartridges with success. You do have to watch out for overinking a cartridge because you risk having it release ink into places it shouldn't go. The shipping time from refillkits.com takes a long time (over two weeks) unless you pay for faster shipping. Hope this helps. It is accomplishment to master this area and well worth the effort. Gloria Rodriguez (marcus@coqui.net) Subject: Accents User's IP Address: 206.99.219.165 February 23, 1998 (1:24 PM PDT) Hi everyone! I have this taped to my monitor for short notes in Spanish. I also use an additional Spanish spell-checker I have installed in my browser for email. It corrects the words I left out. Hope this helps! Gloria á = ALT 160 é = ALT 130 í = ALT 161 ó = ALT 162 ú = ALT 163 ñ = ALT 164 ¿ = ALT 168 ¡ = ALT 173 ü = ALT 129 Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Español > Miguel User's IP Address: 169.197.39.168 February 23, 1998 (7:00 AM PDT) Hola Miguel, in Windows NT 3.51, which I use, there is a setting in Control Panel that allows me to change the English keyboard to a Latin one. Windows 95 must have a similar settting. That allows me now to hit the 'key, followed by any vowell, to get í ó á ú é. Also hitting ~ and n gives me ñ or Ñ. Even more interesting hitting ' followed by the letter c gives me ç and Ç. (French and Portuguese) Also " and any vowell results in ö ü ï ë ä ÿ. And in Spanish you need inverted ? and !. To do that you hit CNTRL-ALT and ! or ? to get ¡ and ¿. Neat huh? Also, for French you need "accent grave" on vowels, which you get by hitting ` before the vowel to get è ù ì à ò. Contractions in French are done by the ^ as in â ô î û ê. If you cannot find that setting I could ask a friend who is using Windows 95. ¡Buena suerte! Mauricio. Larry (Raptors2@thesocket.com) Subject: Teachers and Epsons User's IP Address: 207.104.120.125 February 22, 1998 (4:37 PM PDT) Hi Jill and you are most welcome. Glad to hear you are “reinking away” and everyone (you and your class) is tickled with your creative results both for the visual MONSTER posters and the oral and written stimulation it has generated. YOU will obviously be one of the teachers your students will remember forever. (Don’t we all remember at least one?) For EPSONS I recommend you turn the printer on and when the cartridges are in a position to remove then “pull the power plug.” (This will leave the cartridges in position to remove easily, then when finished reinking reinstall and plug the power cord back in and they will return to “home”. If I’m not mistaken, these printers have a dot counting mechanism for sensing the level of ink remaining in the cartridge. When you remove a cartridge, the dot counter is reset and the system assumes the cartridge is empty and will be replaced with a full one. If you put back the cartridge you took out, say half full, the printer will think it is full. Then when it goes empty the printer will think it is still half full. If you get the empty light flashes, remove the cartridge and reinsert it this should reset the counter. Larry Larry (Raptors2@thesocket.com) Subject: Ink supplier User's IP Address: 207.104.120.33 February 21, 1998 (7:01 PM PDT) My favorite company has been Fillmore Refill Ink manufactured by the Fillmore Group located in Apple Valley, CA 92307 (ph 408-947-7511). Larry (Raptors2@thesocket.com) Subject: Cartridge vent seepage User's IP Address: 207.104.120.50 February 21, 1998 (12:59 PM PDT) Jill…A SLIGHT leak from the little grooved vent lines on top of the cartridge AFTER reinking would generally be caused by the venting of air (which would include some wet ink residue), from the refilling procedure for an Epson style cartridge. IMO, I would not consider it a problem. It can be a sign that the internal sponge (used to hold the ink) is a slight bit overfilled. The reinking company I use includes GRADUATED syringes to determine how much ink to draw in and then inject into different manufacturers cartridges in both color and black. This seepage should NOT be a problem when you insert the cartridge into the printer if nothing else is leaking (other than the slight venting you mentioned). I would occasionally check it though until the ink level is reduced by printing. Jill (Uppsala1@aol.com) Subject: Reinking User's IP Address: 152.173.214.56 February 21, 1998 (9:41 AM PDT) Ok all you reinkers. What does it mean when you get a slight leak from the little grooved vent lines on top of the cartridge after reinking? My immediate thought was that I'd over-inked. This leakage happened after I'd sealed both bottom and top holes and popped the cartridge into the baggy. So, I untaped everything to determine if leaks were happening from the other openings. Nothing from the bottom nor the top holes only the little lined or grooved vent lines. Will this be a problem when I insert the cartridge into the printer if nothing else is leaking? Should I try to squeeze or empty the cartridge to release more ink? It is really hard to tell how much is too much ink. What I am doing is injecting the ink until the cartridge does not accept any more. I then stop. Is there another signal to use in order to determine the right amount? Thanks! Subject: note cards > Gloria User's IP Address: 208.131.249.70 February 20, 1998 (2:44 PM PDT) Hi, Gloria. I'm not sure this is what you want to do, but this is how I do it. Open a note card, tall, side fold, & create your card, front, inside and back. Notice that the front & back rulers are a tad over 3" wide, and a tad over 4-1/4" tall. Also note when you go to the inside, the side ruler stays @ 4-1/2, but the top ruler changes to around 7-1/4" That's about 1/2 a page. When you go to print, disable the double side printing, and flip the page over yourself. The page will come out with a card on the top or lower portion of the page. Turn the page 180 degrees, print side down, and print again. Do the same for the other side. Pay close attention as to how the page comes out of the printer, or one side could be upside down! This way you'll end up with two cards per page. You say you have a paper cutter, or a way to cut your paper, so this should be no problem. I've never tried this with top fold, wide tho. Hope this helps, Frank 8-)> Gloria Rodriguez (marcus@coqui.net) Subject: Making a Notecard without folding twice User's IP Address: 208.156.19.135 February 20, 1998 (1:28 PM PDT) Hi everybody, I would like to make the small notecards just like the 1/2 fold ones. The small notecards are made by folding a regular 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper TWO times. The reason why, is that I would like to use a thicker paper which wouldn't look nice if folded twice. If I cut a regular piece of paper in half and fold ONE of the pieces, I have a card the size of the regular small notecards. How can I print a notecard project with paper this size? I imagine I have to print one side and then print the other, but how do I go about doing this. I also can cut the paper after printing. This probably is the easiest thing to do, but my mind is blocked. I've tried copying and pasting, but I end of having to choose a notecard or card because of it's size and it's settings are made for the regular two-fold. I hope someone can understand what I'm saying!! I'm so mad because I just found out that a document I had made in Word with copies of things taught in this group and url's for paper stock, etc., got corrupted. I lost everything!! :-( Thank you very much, Gloria Marty (marty@csj.net) Subject: Cleaning Sheets User's IP Address: 208.138.185.158 February 19, 1998 (10:07 PM PDT) I use KleenJet. Says it Cleans & maintains all inkjet and bubblejet printers. Says The easy quick and safe method for optimum inkjet and bubblejet printer performance. Prevents dried ink buildup, removes dust and debris, eliminates streaking and spotting. There are six sheets in a package. Cost is about $18.00. I bought mine at Staples. You spray the KleenJet liquid on the sheet and then send it through your printer. Ed Dotson (ed_dotson@hotmail.com) Subject: The Cut-Out Works!! User's IP Address: 208.128.105.93 February 19, 1998 (8:30 PM PDT) By George, I've GOT it... Thanks to all who made suggestions over the past couple of days. There may be alternatives, but the following is the FIRST time I've successfully made a new "fun photo" from scratch: (1) Locate a face-picture you want (I scanned a photo into my new HP5100C, saved to c:\temp\face01.BMP format). (2) Locate a graphic in PMP (I chose a little blue cherub/angel identified as: P-CRT039.CGM). (3) Highlight the graphic is the PMP album, and EXPORT it. I exported to c:\temp\angel01.cgm. (4) OPEN that image in Paint Shop Pro. (5) I then did a SAVE-AS to c:\temp\angel01.jpg. (6) I then opened that .jpg file in Adobe Photo Deluxe. (7) Select the Magic Wand tool, and left-click anywhere inside the face. This automatically does a dotted-line selection of the perimeter of the face. (8) DELETE the selection. This drops-out the angel face. (9) Then, ADD the face (in my case, c:\temp\face01.BMP) you want in its place. You now have two elements on your working board: the angel graphic with the face dropped out, and the picture with the face you want in its place. (10) SELECT the face you want, then select SEND-TO-BACK. This puts the face behind the angel, but since there's a hole where the angel face was, just the portion of the face you want shows through. You can resize and move-around the face til it looks right. (11) Now, with the image on the working board looking like you want it, do a SEND-TO-FILE-FORMAT. I sent it to c:\temp\angel02.BMP. (I first tried .JPG format, but got the message that "WINDOWS NEEDS IEXPLORE.EXE TO OPEN THIS IMAGE" ??). Anyway, the .BMP worked. (12) Now, all that's left is to go back to Print Master Platinum and select the ADD-OBJECT-FILE option for c:\temp\angel02.bmp. Jalla'!! Just like magic I had the PMP angel with my photo face!! NO loss of detail or colors!! (Whew...!!) Ed Dotson Bev (Bc2929@net66.com) Subject: "airing" the baggie User's IP Address: 206.139.95.137 February 19, 1998 (1:36 PM PDT) Don't laugh, now, but I have an added suggestion to Jim's great formula for ink stuck in the cartridge(which I'm gona try as soon as I finish this:} ) You can take a regular zip lock baggie and zip it almost completely leaving enough room for a drinking straw. Insert the straw and suck out the air, then close quickly. The bag will mold itself around the object it holds Don't know where I read that. It works,for I tried it. Thanks for the explanation, Frank, of the asterisk. Now figure out a hug symbol and we will all get the warm fuzzies. Remember those? Oh no, I just told you how long I have been an occupant on this planet!! jim (jim@kjs-a.com) Subject: stuck ink User's IP Address: 206.222.220.50 February 19, 1998 (5:42 AM PDT) we also experience, as several notes have mentioned, ink cartridges that become clogged (seems to mostly be the black for us). ** for storage short term we also use the plastic zip or glad type pouches (only the freezer) ** for long term we use the seal-a-meal approach where we stick it in a bag and use this device we bought in k-mart or shopko and suck the air out. ** either way we make sure they are stored vertically ink holes down since side ways seemed to cause other problems ** when the ink gets stuck in the nozzles the solution we found was from a telephone call to one of the ink-refill vendors who recommended that a container about the size of the cartridge be filled with warm to hot (but not to hot) water that had about 1/4 to 1/2 inch of rubbing alcohol in the bottom. then place the offending nozzle end of the cartridge into the solution for any where from ten minutes to an hour (usually when the crud has disolved so has the clog). NEVER have anything touch the nozzle since this seems to induce occassional or perpetual bleeding (dripping). we use a cotton swab to dry the moisture aRoUnD the nozzle and a paper towel to dry the rest of the cartridge. ** we also found this is a good maintenance tool to keep streaks and sometimes silent (missing ink) spots from appearing on the paper. hope this is an alternative that helps. Daisy (phelps@gte.net) Subject: STOP AUTO RUN permanently without tweakui User's IP Address: 153.36.8.232 February 19, 1998 (3:24 AM PDT) To stop auto-run of CD's. Go to Control Panel. Double click on System. Click on Device Manager tab. Double click on CD-ROM to expand the branch. Click once on the name of your CDROM then click on Properties button, in the gray portion. Click on the the Settings tab. Under Options, de-select the Auto insert notification option. Click on OK, and OK, and restart your computer. Win95 will no longer automatically start your CDs.(From Windows Source Magazine 4/96) Dian Johnson (DI_Johnson@msn.com) Subject: File Conversion User's IP Address: 153.34.64.225 February 17, 1998 (4:52 PM PDT) Hi all, I have been lurking for awhile and gotten some great tips for using PrintMaster Gold. Its time to make a small contribution. A message was posted regarding file conversion programs. I have tried two file viewers that can convert to several other graphic formats. Both are freeware. One is IrView 2.63 that I downloaded from nonags.com. It is a small program but serves as a viewer, can convert to several graphic formats, and allows minor editing. The other program is Ulead's PhotoImpact Viewer. It is a viewer and can be used for file conversion to several formats as well. It is about 4 MB when installed. Dian Ken (kennkath@worldnet.att.net) Subject: "White line fever" User's IP Address: 12.67.80.167 February 17, 1998 (12:40 PM PDT) Looks like using a single coutour in line selection for the font works nicely too. Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: White border around text characters > Brooks User's IP Address: 169.197.32.173 February 17, 1998 (11:56 AM PDT) Hi Brooks and everybody else interested in this subject. To illustrate this problem, place a dark background on a page. Then drag a text box over the backround. Now type in some black text. Notice how the black text is almost unreadable because of the dark background. You would suggest, of course "why don't you change the black text to lighter color?" But there is another solution. Click on FORMAT and FONT. You'll see a radio button marked WHITE BORDER AROUND TEXT. Select it. Now see the result on the screen and in Preview. Each character has a nice white border around itself, making the black text stand out perfectly versus the dark background. Well, this works only on the screen. When you try to print it, the white border suddenly disappears and it doesn't print at all. In consultation with Jay I found out that the culprits are printer drivers for inkjet printers. They simply don't print "white." (in reality there is no such thing as white ink. It is simply the absence of any color.) Well, to test this theory, I tried to print on a laser printer. It prints perfectly. Case proven. A work-around was given by Lynn: Use a white drop-down shadow for your text. That works perfectly. I use a white-filled rectangle layered behind the text. It works too. The ideal would be that we could choose the color of the "white border around text," such as 255.255.254 as an RGB value, "almost white." But unfortunately, the program does not allow that. Maybe in version 5.0? Maurice. Chuckj Williamson (dancer1@c-zone.net) Subject: CD Rom Changer User's IP Address: 207.211.189.109 February 16, 1998 (7:24 AM PDT) Microwarehouse still has the CD Rom changer and cheaper than Danemark ws charging. http://www.microwarehouse.com/ RDR4919 CD-ROM CHANGER PANASONIC 4X 5 DISC INT IDE REFURB $89.95 + Airborne Express shipping $7.50 I just ordered one last Thursday and received it Friday. Chuck in Redding Tim Wright (cherokee@cannet.com) Subject: Online Disconnect User's IP Address: 206.156.188.163 February 15, 1998 (1:14 PM PDT) To: Bev & Anyone else: Most ISP's expect some activity between you & their end periodically. Usually within 15 minutes or so, else they disconnect you. This is usually referred to as inactivity timeout. There is a little Shareware utility called "PingIt" that will simulate activity at a time interval you can set. PingIt can be downloaded from http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/ then select "Internet", then "Internet_Tools". The name of the file is "pngt9511.zip" (without the quotes). After making connection & your Browser is running then load (run) PingIt. If anyone needs an un-zipping program, you can't get any better than WinZip. You'll find it at www.winzip.com. Hope this helps someone. Regards, Tim http://www.egghead.com/frontdoor/?MIval=HotList2 Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: name place cards User's IP Address: 152.163.205.87 February 14, 1998 (9:29 PM PDT) Dear Becky, Here's an idea for your tent cards: Create a rectangle the size you want your finished project to be. Change the default black fill to "none" or a light color. Center a text box on top of that and type in "Name." Play with fonts and sizes until you have what you want. Then duplicate the rectangle, remove the text box on the second one, and place it directly above the first so they just touch. The first rectangle will be the front of your card, the second will be the back. Choose a simple, appropriate graphic, such as an apple, and center it on the fold line. Group everything (use EDIT, SELECT ALL and then group) and duplicate as many times as will fit on your page. Replace "name" with each person's name and print out on card stock. Cut out the rectangles and, using a mat knife, cut out the top of the apple, just down to the fold line before folding. You'll have tent cards with an apple standing up on top. Instead of an apple, you could scan in the group's logo and use that, or even raise each name to the fold line and cut around the top of each letter so the name itself provides the design. Lynn Larry (Raptors2@thesocket.com) Subject: Reinking info User's IP Address: 207.104.120.71 February 15, 1998 (11:19 AM PDT) Bob. There are really three ways to go to save money. First is non OEM cartridges like Nu-Kote which have two components; the reservoir and casing. Second are recycled cartridges and third, and the MOST savings, is reinking yourself using a refill system. Office Depot, Egghead Software, Software Etc, computer shows, and the ‘net are places to get reinking supplies/cartridges. 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 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). 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 Jim (jcarlson@socket.net) Subject: Ink Refil Kits User's IP Address: 205.242.94.67 February 14, 1998 (8:38 PM PDT) Some more on ink refills. I have had my Epson Color Stylus 500 for two years. I use MIS Associates for my ink. Their quality is great, their service is superb and their home page is really terrific. Contact them at www.missupply.com. I don't think you'll be disappointed. jim (jim@kjs-a.com) Michael Goldberg (mbgoldberg@juno.nospam.com) Subject: Ink Refill Kits User's IP Address: 152.167.49.200 February 13, 1998 (8:06 PM PDT) I get my refill kits from an outfit in Canada - their web site is www.refillkits.com. I know of two others off the top of my head - www.refills.com and www.inkrefills.com - but I have no personal experience with them. I have had a problem in that when I fill up a cartridge for future use rather than using it right away, it tends to leak over time, so I store them in a ziplock bag. I have an Epson Stylus Color II and the cartridges have a tape-like seal over the top. Each color cartridge has 3 cells , one for each color, and each cell has two holes in the top. I just poke holes through the cellophane seal at the top, insert the syringe with the appropriate color , fill it very slowly, then cover the hole with tape. I'm thinking about maybe using a glue gun to seal it instead of tape so maybe it won't leak. Anybody else have other experiences/suggestions? Michael Subject: windows shut-down User's IP Address: 206.222.220.46 February 12, 1998 (3:27 PM PDT) our experience with win95 (all varients) is when it goes silent, the first thing to do is one CTL-ALT-DEL to see if there is a taks not responding; and, to end such if there is. *** we have learned, for our platforms, NEVER to do a secong CTL-ALT-DEL. We push the power switch. There are several technical reasons for doing this. At power on, most of the time we will return to a happy system. IF our system is NOT happy, we make sure we do not use the choice of SAFE MODE (#3 i think on the menu) -- (we catch it before the timer expires). We select Bootlog (#2? on the menu). Usually our unhappy system will resurface as something reasonable without missing drivers and a desktop with its icons scrambled. If all looks well, we check and make sure everything is okay then we do a normal shutdown to power-off; and, a subsequent restart. *** you can also look at the bootlog to see what went wrong (i suppose it will look like a bunch of gobbly-d #$%! the first several time until you begin to spot the patterns of change and things that are static): it is in your boot root (usually c:\) and it is hidden; so, just do an attrib command to find the correct and complete name then do an xcopy with i believe a /h option and copy it to a text file you can look at with notepad or a command that looks like type bootlog.txt | more. happy debugging! jim (jim@kjs-a.com) Subject: getting and address list into PM User's IP Address: 206.222.220.64 February 12, 1998 (3:05 PM PDT) I've seen a reqest for getting an address list from a WP (works i think) into PM. *** first, if you have PM 4 GD then go to the user's manual and look at the bottom of page 83 and the top of page 84. *** now you have an idea of what needs to be done. *** you can create the file in a WP or using notepad -- anything that will create a text file. *** BTW, the WP is the hard way to do it cause you have to generally type all of those quotes and commas -- unless your are using word and the mail merge facility. *** in works, once you have created the information in the spread sheet, or the database, you need to do a SAVE AS (it is important to do the SAVE AS not SAVE) which will allow you to select text and then choose between comma delimited or tab delimited fields in the output file. *** i believe if done in the correct sequence (subjective) works will change the file type from wdb (and whatever it is for the spread sheet) to .txt. if it doesn't, you can change it -- JUST make sure you have a different name so you DO NOT clobber your source file!!!! *** now once you believe you have properly created you PM import file, test this theory: 1. shell to dos and use this command: TYPE file.TXT; or, 2. in windows mouse notepad and open file.TXT. *** BTW, file.TXT is the one that you exported as a comma or TAB delimited. *** If it looks like pg 84 import into PM. and now you should have your address list for as many names as you choose. BTW, the output from a WP can also be changed to text with a save as; however, it is your responsiblity to make sure you have the correct sets of quotes and enough separators of either TAB or comma (,). *** Finally, i do NOT recall seeing a facility for IMPORT with APPEND or a MERGE selection in PM. So, should you update in your WP, remember to update only there (same rule for update in PM) from now on so you will continue to have all of your addressees and only ONE list!!!! Oh, if the export does not look like the top of pg 84 there is obviously then an incorrect procedure (of course, my instructions have crystal clarity; and, are so easily understood <;). hope this gives an assist to whomever made the "ask!" Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: quotations for cards User's IP Address: 152.163.204.137 February 08, 1998 (11:39 AM PDT) Dear Gidget, If you want to sound erudite, you can also stud your greetings with quotations from this source: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jwu/Quotes/Quote.html Unfortunately, they are listed by quoter instead of subject, but it's fun reading, and you can get inspiration for producing cards that uniquely appropriate. Lynn Glenn Wright (gwright@abilene.com) Subject: Disney User's IP Address: 206.142.136.142 February 08, 1998 (10:47 AM PDT) http://disneyclipart.simplenet.com/ Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Sentiments > Gidget User's IP Address: 169.197.39.78 February 08, 1998 (7:44 AM PDT) Hi Gidget, I tried the Yahoo search engine with as entry: (sentimental sayings) (this way with parenthesis.) It gave me some beautiful sites like http://www.wicksofwisdom.com with images and sayings galore. In total there were more than 8000 sites, I believe. Maurice Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: white border User's IP Address: 152.163.204.137 February 07, 1998 (1:04 PM PDT) Dear Brook, When I use white border, the white shows but is too thin to set off my text from a similar color background. I tried increasing its thickness as though it were an outline, but that didn't make a difference. However, I found that using a white outline gives me almost the same effect, exept that the text color disappears in thin areas of the letters and all I see is white. When I outlined my text in a black, plus used a white border (I was up against a royal blue background and using royal blue text) the combination did set it off from the background. My favorite tone on tone though, was achieved by combining a white border with a white 3d shadow. Subtle, but easy enough to read. Lynn P.S. When I reread this I found that I had referred to the white printing out. I do realize that there is no white ink. It's just areas left uncolored. Lynn Campbell Behnke (Alambil@aol.com) Subject: colored backgrounds in text boxes User's IP Address: 152.163.204.137 February 07, 1998 (12:29 PM PDT) JoAnne and Robin, You don't have to create a separate rectangle to get a colored background for a label or any text box, although if you want the gradient blend Maurice suggests, you would. Simply create a text box, click on the outside to select the box itself (no cursor showing), click on the paint can and choose a color. This fills the text box with color. To choose a color for the outline of the textbox, I've always needed to make the line broader than the standard hairline, using the line width box. Then click the "O" outline box and choose a color. You can even create shadows for text boxes when the box itself is selected (not the text) by clicking on shadow style and shadow color. If your text box is not filled with a color, your shadow will appear to be an offset outline, but you can achieve a shadow look by filling your box with white. Lynn Maurice E.T. Swinnen (mswin@azstarnet.com) Subject: Label background > Robin User's IP Address: 169.197.39.107 February 07, 1998 (7:50 AM PDT) Hi Robin, that is a perfect and easy way, dragging out a rectangular shape and coloring it. I sometimes want a graded background. I put all the combo windows with the word ALL and type in the search window the words GRADIENT BLEND. That returns about 20 graded backgrounds. I change its color and shading by clicking on the paint can icon and selecting MORE. I can then select the exact color I want by dragging the cross hairs over the color palette and moving the arrow on the right side of the palette up and down to find the correct color density. Maurice. Glenn Wright (gwright@abilene.com) Subject: Printing category catelogues/DON User's IP Address: 206.142.136.42 February 03, 1998 (8:13 PM PDT) Don I told you someone was working on it ......With the art screen up push _F-1_ a screen called RESOURCES USING ART GALLERY comes up. SCROLL to the bottom and click on Advanced Features and lo and behold it can be done. Don (dpt862@netshel.net) Subject: printing graphics User's IP Address: 206.107.252.158 February 02, 1998 (9:39 PM PDT) Hi....Can anyone tell me if I can print out a selected category?? If I select a keyword, as "golf", can I just print out the 89 graphics that are in that category??? Thanks Don jim (jim@kjs-a.com) Subject: fix for @@G User's IP Address: 206.222.220.55 January 27, 1998 (11:50 AM PDT) A while back, I asked about this error received while attempting to load PMGD v4: Can't open the @@G program manager group. Installation not successful. ** The solution is: change to the directory --> install <-- on the cd and execute init32.exe (thanks to the tech people) ** It seems the package i received does not distinguish between the 16 and 32 bit versions and attempts to load the 16 bit version (mostly?). i'm not sure what havoc awaits me in the w95 registry (that will be another day of cleanup -- maybe) as a result of this fo-paw. ** the cd-rom i have is labeled 40dx21. ** if you are having bizarre things happen AND you have a 32 bit system you may have the 16 bit package and some of the 32 bit package. it this makes no sense to you, then it is probably best to leave well enough alone (unless you are desperate). ** BTW, i would uninstall first before taking this leap of faith to leave as few legacy pieces floating around the innards of you system. Brooks C. (brooks@cybercomm.net) Subject: New margin help! User's IP Address: 208.199.64.3 January 28, 1998 (4:26 PM PDT) Hi Everyone, Here is something I discovered that may be helpful to many of us. After stretching our margins to the max according to the "MarginStyle=0" formula we still may have a wide margin at the top of a 1/4 fold card (doesn't happen in the 1/2 fold card). I've found that you can stretch your graphics 1/2" beyond the top border and it will print to the top edge of the card with nothing cropped or missing. Wow! - Brooks