4/20/2012

[macsupport] Digest Number 8862

Messages In This Digest (7 Messages)

1a.
Re: Saving a bunch of photos as a single PDF file? From: George Barker
1b.
Re: Saving a bunch of photos as a single PDF file? From: Tod Hopkins
2a.
Re: Terminal newbie question From: paul smith
2b.
Re: Terminal newbie question From: Harry Flaxman
2c.
Re: Terminal newbie question From: Tod Hopkins
3a.
Re: iOS Mail From: Ian Gillis
3b.
Re: iOS Mail From: Josephine Bacon

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1a.

Re: Saving a bunch of photos as a single PDF file?

Posted by: "George Barker" lynxster@ihug.com.au   four46

Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:48 pm (PDT)



Hi Tod

>Um. iPhoto can do this. Select all. Select settings. Print. Save as PDF.

I'm sure it can, but for my own perverse reasons I've not embraced iPhoto.

>As to Preview, this baffled me for a long time. Here's a way to see
>how this works. Open three photos with Preview. Open the sidebar.
>Click the first thumbnail and "Save as" a PDF. The first thumb will
>now be a PDF. Now take the second photo thumbnail, and drag it
>right on top of the first. Wait until the first thumb is
>highlighted, no blue bar below or above. Drop. Now the first thumb
>is a multipage PDF which you can see by the "binding" indicator on
>the left edge of the thumb. Open the pages by double-clicking the
>thumb (or single clicking the open arrow). Now take the third photo
>thumb and drag it up until you will see the blue line appear between
>the pages of the PDF.

Its had me puzzled also - I seem to remember a thread on this subject
some time ago.
I've just tried the above approach and it worked for the first two
pictures. Dragging the third (and probably subsequent) thumbnail
didn't work, but starting over and dropping the third (actual file)
photo onto the PDF thumb in the sidebar resulted in all three photos
being in the one document
>
>However, for what you want, this is not the easiest way. I like the
>"Bean" method. The best way if you have lot's of photos is an app
>with the ability to make "thumbnail" pages or one that has "contact
>page" printing. Many graphic apps can do this.

Yes, I've been using FastPic to make thumbnail pages and it works
well. What prompted this thread was that I suddenly wanted to
annotate some images, and there is no room in the annotated text in
the FastPic thumbnail pages.

Thanks
George

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1b.

Re: Saving a bunch of photos as a single PDF file?

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:21 am (PDT)



Ah, annotation. There's the rub. Most programs that are designed to create contact or thumbnail pages don't handle associated text well. iPhoto definitely does not.

I tend to go to into a document app for that (and now I'm really interested in trying Bean!). Word tables most commonly, but that is tedious and a bit fussy. I have also used spreadsheets, but they don't handle photos as well as I would like. A database (File Maker or Libre/Neo/Open Office Base) is good if the information is intended to be archival. I have actually never used either for this purpose, but File Maker by reputation is good with media files (this feature has been there for years) and I suspect Base can handle photos as well.

There's also Flicker, which can be excellent if the goal is sharing. The "Pro" account is cheap and worth it if you have a large collection.

Cheers,
tod
On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:48 PM, George Barker wrote:

> Hi Tod
>
> >Um. iPhoto can do this. Select all. Select settings. Print. Save as PDF.
>
> I'm sure it can, but for my own perverse reasons I've not embraced iPhoto.
>
> >As to Preview, this baffled me for a long time. Here's a way to see
> >how this works. Open three photos with Preview. Open the sidebar.
> >Click the first thumbnail and "Save as" a PDF. The first thumb will
> >now be a PDF. Now take the second photo thumbnail, and drag it
> >right on top of the first. Wait until the first thumb is
> >highlighted, no blue bar below or above. Drop. Now the first thumb
> >is a multipage PDF which you can see by the "binding" indicator on
> >the left edge of the thumb. Open the pages by double-clicking the
> >thumb (or single clicking the open arrow). Now take the third photo
> >thumb and drag it up until you will see the blue line appear between
> >the pages of the PDF.
>
> Its had me puzzled also - I seem to remember a thread on this subject
> some time ago.
> I've just tried the above approach and it worked for the first two
> pictures. Dragging the third (and probably subsequent) thumbnail
> didn't work, but starting over and dropping the third (actual file)
> photo onto the PDF thumb in the sidebar resulted in all three photos
> being in the one document
> >
> >However, for what you want, this is not the easiest way. I like the
> >"Bean" method. The best way if you have lot's of photos is an app
> >with the ability to make "thumbnail" pages or one that has "contact
> >page" printing. Many graphic apps can do this.
>
> Yes, I've been using FastPic to make thumbnail pages and it works
> well. What prompted this thread was that I suddenly wanted to
> annotate some images, and there is no room in the annotated text in
> the FastPic thumbnail pages.
>
> Thanks
> George
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> George Barker
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com

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2a.

Re: Terminal newbie question

Posted by: "paul smith" kullervo@nycap.rr.com   waldonny

Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:42 pm (PDT)



Please note that having the Developer tools installed will change the behavior of Terminal.
Also, folks who use it a lot tend to customize it by creating a .profile file or something similar, and may forget that us mere mortals don't have one. ;)
--
PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.7.3 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.1

On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:

I'm in the Bash shell. When I type $mail l
I get an invitation to type a subject of an email.
I do not get a listing of mail message headers.

Something is different here!

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2b.

Re: Terminal newbie question

Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@me.com   hflaxman001

Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:47 am (PDT)



Or .bashrc as the caseay be.

H

Sent from Harry's iPod !

On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:42, paul smith <kullervo@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Please note that having the Developer tools installed will change the behavior of Terminal.
> Also, folks who use it a lot tend to customize it by creating a .profile file or something similar, and may forget that us mere mortals don't have one.

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Re: Terminal newbie question

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:25 am (PDT)



Because they are not intended for "you" particularly. Remember working in terminal is, literally, working outside the box, the Apple box if you will. Ha, ha. I'm such a jokester! But seriously, all bets are off in Terminal. If a developer wants to send messages to Terminal, that's fine. And you are expected to "handle" it if you go there.

Just like you are. ;-O

Cheers,
tod

On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:47 PM, N.A. Nada wrote:

> This is stupid. Why is it giving me the scan reports in Terminal after gave it to me previously in the GUI?

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com

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3a.

Re: iOS Mail

Posted by: "Ian Gillis" tessel.bas@gmail.com   ianjgillis

Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:23 am (PDT)



On 20 April 2012 03:00, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net> wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> I can't remember the meaning of "taking the Mickey" but I recall the
> Brits using it when I lived in Italy.  It's a very English English
> expression but not well know in the US.

This is from the respected etymologist Michael Quinion:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tak1.htm
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss

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3b.

Re: iOS Mail

Posted by: "Josephine Bacon" bacon@langservice.com   baconandeggs_2001

Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:29 am (PDT)



I disagree with both the definitions and the origins. Taking the
mickey or taking the piss are synonyms and "mickey" has no fanciful
Irish connections, it is short for "micturate" another term for
"urinate" one which clearly all these pseudo-etymologists are unaware
of. It does not mean "to mock" either, it means something similar to
"you're kidding me" but in a manner designed to fool someone or make
them look silly. It is indeed a purely British term.

Josephine Bacon

On 20 Apr 2012, at 10:23, Ian Gillis wrote:

> On 20 April 2012 03:00, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Howdy.
> >
> > I can't remember the meaning of "taking the Mickey" but I recall the
> > Brits using it when I lived in Italy. It's a very English English
> > expression but not well know in the US.
>
> This is from the respected etymologist Michael Quinion:
> http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tak1.htm
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss
>

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