--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 220 GEOWORKS Ref: DDA00006 Date: 09/05/96 From: ANNE PAGE Time: 12:41am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: HINTS FOR GEOFILE USERS Here are some more of my "tricks" for optimum use of GeoFile that might interest those of you who do database work with your Ensemble. Keep in mind that I am using the 2.0 version and that I don't know if the "bugs" I am describing here occur for those who have applied the 2.01 patch. To speed up the "find" process when the word or phrase you are searching for is in the database more than once, get off the record you are on before asking GEOS to find the next occurrence of the text string. If you don't leave, GEOS will "do its thing" and then land on the same record a second time. When you again tell it to "find next" a light will flash in its brain saying "No you dummy, she means a different record" and it will go look for the next one. To avoid this happening, when the cursor lands on the record and it's not the one you want, move the cursor forward to the next record with the mouse or the CTRL-N keyboard command and then tell GEOS to find the next occurrence of the string. It will go straight to it. Similarly, if you want to avoid as much as possible GEOS rewriting the screen as you are queuing up pages of multi-column labels to print, do a save after each queue has been sent to the printer. Likewise, if you need to sort the database before assembling your mailing labels, do the sort in single record regular data entry mode and layout rather than your multi-record label layout. When I do that and then switch to multi-record label layout, GEOS drops all my names and addresses into it immediately and usually does not rewrite the screen after it finishes displaying the layout with the cursor on page 1 of my 25+ pages ready for printing. I ask for the first 3 pages to go to the printer and wait while that is done. As soon as the pages have printed, I do a save, wait while GEOS rewrites the screen to the 4th page, and then ask for pages 4, 5 and 6. I print my labels in text only fastest mode and I can usually print my entire mailing list for that month in a little over an hour even though I am taking the extra time to do the intermittant saves and small size print requests. (Yes, Pensey, you may take the other messages and this one and use them in GeigaCountR if you wish. I'm sorry I've never gotten around to describing my desktop for DTP'ing in an article as I promised long ago to do for you.) Anne Page * SLMR 2.1a * When all else fails, read the instructions! --- QScan/PCB v1.16b / 01-0075 * Origin: PSL Online Houston, TX 713-442-6704 @psl-online.com (1:106/6256) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 220 GEOWORKS Ref: DDA00007 Date: 09/03/96 From: JAY FULLER Time: 06:46pm \/To: JESSE SMITH (Read 1 times) Subj: QUICKSTART ON XT JS>Sam a faster computer, more memory and a fast hard drive will JS>improve the processing speed, but it will also take a good inkjet or JS>laser printer to improve the output. I am using a AMD DX4 120 Mhz JS>with a Cannon BJC-610 inkjet printer and I am very happy with the JS>speed. I always use the medium resolution when printing which gives JS>very good resuults and is much faster then the high resolution JS>output. A motherboard and 486 DX4 CPU can be bought for around $180 JS>the Cannon BJ610 is selling for $379 at Sam's. Memory is real cheap JS>now, I have seen it for almost $10/Mb. How does your cannon print color? mine looks like crap, and I'm using the exact model you are.....bjc-610. Also, which drivers are you using? Thanks, Jay Fuller ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet: jfuller@pcs-i.net Fidonet Netmail: 1:3607/22 -->> Internet HOMEPAGE: http://www.pcs-i.net/jfuller <<-- "Replace your sex drive with a disk drive, and you become a SysOp!" -----------------------Cullman, Alabama 35055--------------------------- --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Deep Space Nine BBS - [205] 734-0818/734-0763-Cullman AL (1:3607/22) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 220 GEOWORKS Ref: DDA00008 Date: 09/03/96 From: JAY FULLER Time: 06:56pm \/To: TERRI FERRIER (Read 1 times) Subj: YOUR MAIL MAY BE MISSING TF>AP>>Just a quickie, Terri, to let you know that the message you told TF>AP>me >voice the other day that you had posted here to everybody TF>AP>about the >fonts has never made it from Victoria, Texas to TF>AP>Houston, Texas. :-( TF>I had already figured out that it didn't and had already sent it TF>again. I hate it when that happens. Murphy's Law--If I upload TF>something, that's when Fido screws up. Hey Terri.....I can't think of anytime Fido has screwed up here from my bbs....and I read / write in multile echos, so I always know if there IS a problem [been writing since march of 1993, and there was one time when there was a problem] Feel free to upload from deep space nine anytime... --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Deep Space Nine BBS - [205] 734-0818/734-0763-Cullman AL (1:3607/22) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 220 GEOWORKS Ref: DDA00009 Date: 09/05/96 From: ROBERT OBRIEN Time: 12:48am \/To: STEVE STEBER (Read 1 times) Subj: Geos 2.0 Hi Steve, The basic differences between 2.0 and 2.01 are very slight. You would be best to wait for version 2.1 which will contain all of the bug fixes left out of version 2.01. I also includes a few new features. The major upgrade I think will be version 3.0, but no word as to if or when it will be published. Bob O'Brien --- InterEcho 1.18 * Origin: PC-Ohio PCBoard * Cleveland, OH * 216-381-3320 (1:157/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 220 GEOWORKS Ref: DDA00010 Date: 09/05/96 From: ROBERT OBRIEN Time: 12:57am \/To: PETER SWANSON (Read 1 times) Subj: Dunnagan! Hi Peter, Interesting to find a Buffalo person in the Geoworks echo. I have a friend in Williamsville are you near there. If so perhaps we can swap stories about Ensemble the next time I am there. Bob O'Brien --- InterEcho 1.18 * Origin: PC-Ohio PCBoard * Cleveland, OH * 216-381-3320 (1:157/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 220 GEOWORKS Ref: DDA00011 Date: 09/05/96 From: RICHARD SCHAEFER Time: 08:06pm \/To: TERRI FERRIER (Read 1 times) Subj: Introduction |------------------|Terri Ferrier wrote: TF>Here are some of the things I would like to see... TF> TF>A utility that will list the fonts that were used in the creation of a TF>document. The reason for this idea is because I sometimes design TF>programs that have numerous advertisements in them that I have also TF>designed. I use different fonts that I don't always normally use and TF>some of them end up getting deleted. Several months later, I go back to TF>the document to edit it for a new program and find the system font TF>substituted in different ads. I can't always remember which fonts I TF>used and of course the advertisers want the exact same ad.:) |------------------|about Introduction Do you have a copy of FFONT (FindFont)? It's a DOS program that will identify all font ids in a document and show the name (based on a user-maintainable data file). So assuming that your font ids are unique, this sounds like it'd work for you. If you don't have it, I could email it to you. (It's *PROBABLY* at The Hole, but if not, I could upload it.) Let me know if you need it and the best way to get it to you. 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