Attn: Newsgroup users.

[XPOST to m.d.l and m.d.b]
forums.macromedia.com has less than an 30 minutes in this
world :(
ANNOUNCEMENT: Forums will be unavailable for planned system
maintenance
starting at 3pm PST on April 3, 2009. New forums will be
online on
Monday April 6, 2009.
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/
They have stated that they're not going to use NNTP in the
near future.
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

Nice.. and Happy Birthday new:
RTE and
attachment..
At least
we can
see a lot
of improvement
in the
new
forum!
Thank you!

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ATTN: GPO Users

I'm getting ready (I hope) to upgrade my Garritan Personal Orchestra software to version 2.2.1. If there are any other GPO/Logic users reading this, and you have upgraded, have you noticed any performance glitches, plugin/sample loading errors (besides the usual), etc to watch for?
PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.9) Final Cut Studio, Adobe CS3, Logic Pro 7, Sony HDRHC3, Chapman Stick

The only issue I had was learning the new Kontakt interface, but as I bought the full version of Kontakt with the tutorial DVD too all the difficulties have been cleared up.
I have no specific new problems.
The Ambience reverb doesn't work on Intel machines, but Kontakt 2 player has some alternative revrbs and effects that are included in the fill version of Kontakt.

ATTN: All Users w/ USB Port Issues

Hello,
I have an A135-2386, BIOS v1.6, 2GB RAM
After reading some of the messages in this forum (and on the web) I'm convinced that the USB issue is directly related to BIOS upgrades.
I had the BIOS password issue happen to me last week and I fixed the issue myself by jumping the pin jopen1 (short with paper clip). Anyway, I updated the BIOS to v1.4 (to prevent the password issue from recurring) and the USB issues started surfacing.
At first I could toggle the legacy usb option in BIOS and the ports would start functioning. But after the pc went to sleep or was restarted the problem came back. Now the toggle workaround no longer helps.
Even though my warranty has expired I did get sympathetic help from Toshiba.
After contacting Toshiba support they suggested I update the BIOS to v1.6 (the latest).
The latest BIOS v1.6 does not solve the USB issue.
Please call Toshiba Support 1-800-457-7777 (24/7) and log this issue.
Refer to my call number; 1-1147317549
If we can get demonstrate that this is a BIOS issue then hopefully we can get a resolution at no cost.
I see someone got a new motherboard in another thread, I'm curious as to what BIOS it has.
Regards,
Kenneth Barrentine

"BIOS upgrades, as identified by Toshiba and other manuf's, is at owner risk."
I've never heard that one before. It's been my experience that most manufacturers want you to stay current.
In case I omitted some details here are the reasons again.
The first BIOS upgrade, v1.1 to v1.4, was so that I would not ever have to deal with resetting a BIOS admin password.
The second BIOS upgrade, v1.4 to v1.6, was recommended by Toshiba Technical Support in an effort to correct the malfunctioning USB ports. Since there was no documentation addressing this issue in v1.6 it did seem pointless to upgrade to this version. I just followed the Toshiba Technical Support recommendation in an effort to correct the USB issue.
I'm leaning toward a PCMCIA<>USB card.
There is a bulletin from Toshiba recommending the BIOS upgrade. There is no mention of risk.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com
Bulletin ID: 98082632
Posted: 02/11/2009
Updated: 02/24/2009
I wish I had found this prior to my jumping jopen1

Urgent question: forum or newsgroup?

I am trying to convince Spanish speaking users "from the other side" (ex MM forums in Spanish) to post here their opinions about the changes that are almost here, but have not been succesful. All of them do not use browsers as such to access the forums, and they seem convinced that they are participating, not in a forum, but in a newgroup, housed but not controlled by Adobe. In fact, in the topic lists they are identified as "newsgroup users" while browser users are identified by their screen names.
One of the oldest and most respected participants there has just posted a message in which he states that NNTP users do not access those forums through the Adobe site, so they don't need an Adobe ID, just an email address which doesn't even have to be a real or existing one.
I find this strange, as it would discriminate against those of us using normal browser access. I cannot post in there if I'm not a registered Adobe user, and that means that at some stage I have to provide a valid email address, an identificator (the Adobe ID), and a screen name. But he insists that they don't have to register and have never done.
Could someone please clarify this matter for me?

A bit of history from an old and current NNTP user (FidoNet, Usenet, and other private news servers). [Edit: The newsgroups Claudio was asking about] are hosted on forums.macromedia.com. They were in use and very active years before Macromedia added that nasty FuseTalk Web application. No login was ever required to read and post to that server. You can point your newsreader application to that server, download its list of newsgroups, and begin reading/posting in any group. The Web application simply reads from, and posts to the news server - munging code and message headers along the way. But if you want to use the Web access, you do have to use a login. If you never registered software at the former Macromedia site, you would need to create a new login for this. (I don't recommend it.) Or they may have had a separate login, I don't recall, exactly. Adobe has a separate NNTP server, adobeforums.com, that I believe was also around before the WebX application provided HTTP access. It does not require login to read the messages with a newsreader, but if you want to post to that server with a newsreader, you do have to login with an Adobe ID. Most newsreader programs provide a way to do that. Neither of these servers are really considered part of Usenet. While they do make their feeds available to other news servers*, they do not get newsfeeds from other servers. That is why sites such as groups.google.com (formerly dejanews.com) can archive the posts for posterity, but cannot post to these newsgroups. * I /think/ adobeforums.com may have discontinued this practice. That's how it went to the best of my recollection tonight. <Warning: newsgroup .sigfile follows> -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :)

Creating a user page

how do i create a page that user can use to create their own
personal profile once they registered ?
Is it possible to have a page designed just for that and
everytime i get a new visitors that registers, that page will be
their profile page ?
I dont know if i am explaining myself enough, hope someone
knows what i am talking about and can help me out.
Thank you so much

If I may, LuisDesigns, to add something to this information
here.
I think the books I have are going to be of a big help and
very useful, reliable tool *and* resource for you to use.
I recommend that you purchase two books, whose wrote by David
Powers, and the title and publishers are as follows below:
a) Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8, by David Powers,
published by An Apress Company (also friends of ed), and
b) PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, by David
Powers. Same publisher.
Additionally, I also find two other books very helpful for
me. I don't know if those other two are be of an interest for you.
But it is worth to mention it for you, and you can be the judge by
looking at those books perhaps at Barnes Noble or Border bookstores
in your hometown.
Additionally, I wanted to make a quick note, I really like
the first two books that I have mentioned as above as opposed to
the last two below. Because these two books (Foundation PHP for
Dreamweaver 8 and PHP Solutions by David Powers) are very clearly,
conise and well-through and well referenced, as well as thoroughly
documentated by the author. I commend him for that wonderful books
he wrote. I think you'd be immensely impressed with the quality of
information with Powers' books, you'll agree with me eventually.
I also think that you are experencing some kind of brain
frozen or stuck, and don't know where to get started. Let me assure
you that David Powers' books are going to be of a big help and a
wonderful guideline and steps as in 1, 2 and 3. If you decide to
purchase his books, be sure to visit the websites as directed by
the author, because there is some updated additional information
along with the books after the books released.
c) Learning PHP & MySQL by Michele E. Davis & Jon A.
Phillips, published by O'Reilly Media Inc, first edition (June
2006),
d) PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites, by Larry Ullman
published by Peachpit Press. (This covers PHP3/PHP4 and MySQL3/4).
One other thing, it is important to make a note that you need
to make sure that you have exact same versions of PHP and MySQL
versions on your local machine AND remote servers. If differs, you
could run into problems per se.
Hope that helps, no?
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
Since you are using dw you need to do more reading about the
things
that dw offers. Dreamweaver, the Missing Manual and
Dreamweaver 8
Unleashed both have good intro sections on databases. There
are also
some web site that have tutorials.
DW offers many helping hands. Behaviors for records,
deleting, editing
records. Until you do more research/study there is not much
to help
y0u with.

OT: Newsgroup Subscription for Spry Forum?

OT: I usually read these forums via a newsreader. But I
haven't been able to find the subscription for this one... it's not
in the Labs list for the forums.macromedia.com where I find all the
others.
I do see some folks posting as Newsgroup Users. What am I
missing?
TIA

Thanks, Kin. I changed the profile options, so I started
receiving
posts in my inbox. But I still couldn't find the subscription
in my
newsreader (separate from my regular inbox). As I was just
now
responding as such, I did one more check, and now the Spry
forum is
there as an option, under Labs, to subscribe directly via
newsgroup.
Strange, but good. ;)

A Dumb Question From A New CS3 User

I am in the process of building a new site using CS3. This is
my first experience with this product and I have what I am sure is
a remarkably dumb question. I have an image (a banner ad) centered
on one of the pages and would like to insert a table to the left of
the image without the image moving (i.e. down) from it's current
location. How can this be done?
Thanks!

Thanks!
That worked perfectly.
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
Hi Big,
>I am in the process of building a new site using CS3.
This is my first
> experience with this product and I have what I am sure
is a remarkably
> dumb
> question. I have an image (a banner ad) centered on one
of the pages and
> would
> like to insert a table to the left of the image without
the image moving
> (i.e.
> down) from it's current location. How can this be done?
An easy way is to make your table with two cells, then put
the banner in the
right cell - if you need more subdivison of the left cell,
you can put a
table in it.
Aloha,
Jerry

Adobe forums as a internet newsgroups

Hello,
About a month or so ago your various adobe forums
adobe.acrobat.com.buzzword,adobe.acrobat.com.connectnow,
adobe.acrobat.com.conver_to_pdf,adobe.acrobat.comgenral_discussion,adobe.acrobat.login_iss ues
etc were available to view on the internet as newsgroups. As of now
the feed to these newsgroups and others are not going through. I
still see that these forums are available but when the person links
these forums as a newsgroup to his server it seems to be always
empty.

Hello jackcmac,
I am not aware of newsgroups that may be allowing access to
the Acrobat.com forums, although sometimes we do get posts from a
"newsgroup user". The way those posts come in, I'm not sure
entirely....But, you're in the right place for Acrobat.com support!
If you're needing a fresh idea of what's being talked about
in these forums, feel free to hop in anytime!
Take care,
Pete

Problem with user home directory redirection on OS X

It appears that the Authorware 7.01 runtime gets confused
when home directory redirection is used on Mac OS X to redirect a
user's directory to the network.
I suspect it is a problem with the path to the Application
Support folder where Authorware stores its .rec files.
That happens is that JumpFileReturn returns to the start of
the piece, rather then returning to where the jump was performed.
As anyone else seen this? Is there any workaround?
On Windows one can setup and ini file to tell Authorware
where to store temporary files. Is there any such equivalent on
Mac?

I'm not sure of the process on macs that match the use of the
ini file, but
the goal was always identical operation on both platforms so
it's very
likely that the ini file is read and interpreted in the same
manner.
It seems that the 'initial' location of the current records
folder is the
one that's messed up. The .rec file is created on the local
machine rather
than the redirected one. I can only guess that either the
home folder isn't
redirected until after the first AW piece starts or the
initial setting is
being set to a 'default' location for the user rather than
asking the system
what the current location is. A solution might be to create a
"launcher"
application with Authorware designed to start up and jump to
what is
currently your startup piece. This way the RecordsLocation
should be changed
to the network location and you can ignore the original rec
file since
you'll never return to that first location.
HTH
====================
Mike Baker
Adobe Community Expert
[email protected]
"peterevensen" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mac OS X, you can set a workstation up to have the
user's directory
> (including the preferences folder, etc.) on a file
server. If one sets up
a
> Mac workstation to do this, Authorware quits working
properly when you
jump
> between pieces.
>
> The piece is set up correctly. I don't touch the User
Record location.
The
> pieces are set to resume and work fine if the user's
directory is not
> redirected.
>
> When Authorware jumps to another piece/file, it dumps
out a *.rec file
> containing the current state. These are stored on the
Mac in <user
> directory>/Library/Application
Support/Macromedia/AW7Data folder. When
the
> user directory is redirect to the network and the user
exits the file that
was
> jumped to, the original piece starts over from the
beginning. This is
the
> same behavior you see if Authorware cannot write out the
*.rec file (e.g.,
if
> you write protected the above folder, or the equivalent
folder on Windows,
> hence the change in AW 6.5
>
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16607&sliceId=1
>
> This problem has been reported in the field several
times. I haven't set
up a
> server yet to reproduce it, but my assumption is that
Authorware is not
getting
> the path or not handling the path to the user's
Application Support
properly
> when it is redirected to a network server.
>
> On Windows, there is an .ini file which can be used to
change where
Authorware
> stores temporary file (.rec). I don't believe there is
an equivalent for
the
> Mac runtime, is there? I see that I could change that
path using the path
> parameters in JumpFileReturn, but does that change where
the current piece
your
> jumping from writes out the .rec file? It would be
preferable if I could
> change it globally once, rather than going into the 100s
of pieces I am
> maintaining.
>
> I'm not sure an aw7.ini would fix the problem in any
case, since I am not
sure
> where one could safely map the user record location,
since this is a
multi-user
> environment. You couldn't map everyone to the same
location.
>
> Your reply, while not answering my question directly,
has pointed me to
some
> more things to look at (like the path parameter on
JumpFileReturn),
although
> I'm not sure why Authorware isn't working without
changing that. If you
have
> any additional suggestion, I would greatly appreciate
it!
>
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> I'm not sure what you're asking. Can you provide more
detail? Are you
> using JumpFileReturn to launch another file, which also
sets a different
> UserRecord location? And that doesn't work...how?
> Do you have 'resume' set in the File Preferences instead
of 'restart'?
> Erik
>
>
>
>

How can I have text on top of an image?

say i want to do something like this for my site:
http://www.whspconsumercare.com/images/RxDesign.jpg
what would be the best way to have those colored rounded
boxes in the background, and be able to type or place an image over
it? I tried having it as the background image, and putting the text
in a <div>, but this way the text is not always positioned
properly depending on how large the browser window is, etc.
any suggestions?

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html
ATTN Alan Smithee (or anyone else who has used the Nifty
Corners site above or just knows a lot about CSS/html) -
I have still not been able to figure out the problems I'm
having with my rounded boxes:
http://www.whsprx.com/indexRcorners.html
mostly, you'll see the orange box on top is messed up right
below the image. I'm not sure why, because the other boxes that
have images look fine. Help please?
(let me know if there's any additional info I can provide
that might help)

How to transfer a site on my HD to a local testing server?

My site, which I developed in Dreamweaver CS3, is currently
all static HTML. I'm making progress in changing it to have some
PHP content, but my initial work is all on my live site -- whereas
I want to be able to do development and testing on a local testing
server. I've successfully set up XAMPP, and am making progress in
developing some pages on a *new* local test site (which I've
installed for local testing at C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs),
which I've set up to have PHP-based dynamic content. What I *can't*
figure out how to do is to take all of my local content for my live
Website (which is currently at C:/Documents and
Settings/MyName/MySite/) and move it to
http://localhost/ (at C:/Program
Files/xampp/htdocs), so I can can develop and test new dynamic
content for my site locally against my local Web server. I suspect
that there are some simple steps to accomplish this goal, but I'm
pretty new at this, and can't figure it out. Any advice/guidance
will be greatly appreciated!

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
Open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:/Documents and
Settings/MyName/,
right-click the MySite folder, and select Copy. Then navigate
to
C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs, right-click, and select Paste.
Your site will then be at
http://localhost/MySite/
Wow, that was simple. Thanks! (I had assumed that I needed to
make the change somehow from within Dreamweaver, vs. in Windows
Explorer. But I guess that's necessary only if/when you're moving
files around *within* a site.) Thanks so much!
I think that Dreamweaver will fuss at me that my testing site
(actually,
http://localhost/visiblewind)
is in a subfolder, whereas my live site (
http://www.visiblewind.com)
is at the root, for synchronization-related issues. Will that cause
issues if I do switch from a separate FTP program (which I'm
currently using) to synchronization via Dreamweaver?
p.s.: I ordered your "Essential Guide..." yesterday -- am
expecting it in the mail when I get home tonight!

Design view is empty

I'm able to see the html/cf code in the code view, but in the
design view I don't see anything, to include tables, etc. I'm using
DWMX2004.
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Force

Does the page validate? If not, then fix the validation
errors. That's the
best way to approach troublesome pages.
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"n h c" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> > if that makes any sense.
>
> It doesn't really. If the page is valid HTML, you will
see it in DW.
> Even
> when it is a combination of some scripting language and
HTML, you will see
> something.
>
>
> well, maybe that's how it should be. but this website
defies all reason
> and
> convention. i think most people would have quit/suffered
a nervous
> breakdown/killed my boss by now. the people who worked
here before me left
> quite a mess, i must say.
>
> i think the code probably isn't valid. but i really
don't know enough
> about
> coding yet to fix it. and it works, it just makes it
hard to figure out
> where i
> need to edit things sometimes.
>
> but we're not discussing my ridiculous website here! not
anymore, at
> least.
>
> -courtney
>
>

Smart quotes from InDesign export

When exporting copy from InDesign CS3, the smart quotes do
not convert to html code. What am I doing wrong?

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
if you paste this exported file into a good text editor, what
character is used for the smart quotes?
I'm not pasting an exported file. I copied and pasted from
InDesign to Appleworks. Appleworks converts the smart quotes to
html code when exporting. A pretty nice job, actually, but an extra
step.
quote:
what doctype does the html file in dw have?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
quote:
what character is used for where these smart quotes are?
It shows up as a smart quote in the source, rather than the
html equivalent.

Find/Replace - multiple replace ... maybe with regex

Hello Dreamweaver community ... I'm relatively new to using Dreamweaver as an editor and I'm working on a large migration project that I'm trying to make easier. Basically, I'm converting an entire site from English to Spanish ... almost literally tag by tag
Something that would make my job a lot easier is if ... every time I open a new Spanish language content file I could ...
replace ALL Spanish language grammar symbols, accents, tildes etc ... with their HTML equivalents ... for example ...
á = á
é = é
í = í
And so on ... there's about 10-12 major changes ...
What I need to figure out is how to save a find/replace query in Dreamweaver .dwr format that replaces all symbols at once instead of needing to do them one at a time ...
Seems like this shoudl be possible but I haven't figured out the right syntax ... I used the (.+) and $1 but it only worked conditionally - in the order the replacements were written. I need it to find ALL instances of a spanish symbol and replace it with its corresponding html ...
Can anyone help me with this ...?
Thank you in advance ...

This is in fact the only solution I found to this problem.
Creating an extension is not that difficult once you have the right
reference material.
Have a look at:
DW API function to find and replace
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0_API/dwr_code_cd_013.html
Sample extension file on your machine after installing DW
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Extension
Manager\Samples\Dreamweaver\
Full specifications of the MXI (extension file) format
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/exchange/mxi_file_format.pdf
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> So, is it indeed possible to run more than one
find/replace query at a
> time?
As far as i know, no it's not possible.
There has been mentions in the past to this question that a
series of
find/replace queries could be built as a dw extension instead
of a saved
search query.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver

Creating a hyperlink on an image ruins my whole layout!?

Hi guys,
I have been using Dreamweaver at High School for a while, but
now am using it at university and it is version CS3.
I am not expert at websites, and am used to creating a site
in fireworks or photoshop (now), then slicing and importing into
dreamweaver. I have done this with my latest site but I am having
some wierd problems that I have never had before.
Here is how my page looks without my image (enter button)
inked to my main page (main.html)
<a href="
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh129/marceta/?action=view&current=site_before.jpg"
target="_blank"><img src="
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh129/marceta/site_before.jpg"
border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Ok now when I link it (I have tried by dragging the
crosshairs next ot the box, and the manual method of typing it in),
this happens and the whole page looks screwed up.
<a href="
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh129/marceta/?action=view&current=site_after.jpg"
target="_blank"><img src="
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh129/marceta/site_after.jpg"
border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
This is really annoying as it happens in every page no matter
what I link. How do I fix it? It is almost as if the a href tag
increases the size of the image, or adds an invisible border that I
can not get rid of. I am sure that anyone with half a brain on
web-dev will easily be able to tell me the setting to fix this. I
dont not want to resort to using image maps.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Peter Marceta
\EDIT: sorry about the images...I tried bbcode tags [IMG] but
then realized they wouldnt work, but I couldnt get the HTML to work
either. Just clike the links and it should work.

Such a generic rule could well destroy a page's layout.
Getting rid of
borders around image links should be done with a scalpel, not
a machete....
8)
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>
quote:
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Newsgroup User
> It would be much better to use this -
>
> a img { border:none; }
>
> since your suggested rule would apply to every image on
the page!
>
> Yep, it was total guess based on what appeared to be a
table layout made
> up of
> assembled pictures. Such a page would require
>
> img {display: block;}
>
> in order to render correctly in Firefox, and the lack of
code prevented a
> more
> specific selector.
>

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