Making Preferences Stick

I keep setting my preferences in Adobe Reader 10.1.1 for [Page Display > Page Layout > Single Page Continuous]. However, every time I launch Adobe Reader, it reverts to [View > Page Display > Single Page View] even though the preferences still indicate my setting. This is very annoying. How can I fix this? Or is this a bug in Adobe Reader.

Settings in a PDF document's Initial View tab of the PDF's Document Properties trumps Reader / Acrobat Preferences.
Within the Initial View tab a page layout and magnification can be specified.
Note that you'd need Acrobat to view the Initial Tab in a PDF's Document Properties.
Be well...

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Hello everyone,
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THe thermostat becomes bigger and bigger, simultaneously circling. My task is to add a company logo at the bottom of that thermostat.
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Is it possible to achieve that in Adobe Premiere?
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Questions about After Effects are best asked in the After Effects forum, where the After Effects experts hang out.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion?view=discussions

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Hi,
thanks to Nancy O. you should look here:
www.alt-web.com/DEMOS/CSS2-Sticky-Footer.shtml
Hans-G.

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I used some commercial workstation/keyboard spray cleaner. Previous to that some coffee has been spilled on it. However, I was able to lift some keys up a little and that seems to have broken whatever was making it stick.
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Not sure what's fixed, but seems to be working now. Thx.

Preferences not honored

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V.K. wrote:
mkramer wrote:
Edit: the preferences were ghosted because of the renaming of the app. Un-renaming the app and they're back. The preferences stick on a new admin account.
if the preferences stick on the new account the problem is local to your main account. it could be some corrupt cache or preference files although I don't know which ones.
It seems so.
Locking the files did not work.
i suspect it did. when you lock those files, the system can not change them and whatever changes are made from software system preferences are not written to the hard drive. do the files remain locked when you log out/in?
This is what I did.
1). Uncheck setting.
2). Quit and reopen SUPP. The setting is still unchecked. It appears that my settings have been saved to disk.
3). Quit SUPP
4). Lock the com.apple.SoftwareUpdate plist.
5). Open SUPP. The offending preference has reset!
6). Quit and open SUPP. Offending preference still on.
7). Uncheck preference with file locked.
8). Quit and open SUPP. Unchecked preference still unchecked.
9). Log out and in. Preference rechecked.
So you see, locking does not work. It appears that the act of locking the plist actually resets the preference, or causes SUPP to revert to different version of the plist which is wrong and which is not set by the Software Preference Pane GUI.
Message was edited by: mkramer

Another Newbie, how can Mac OSX Server help my School?

Hi all, the school where i work has just taken delivery of 11 brand new macs. 8 iMacs, 2 MBP's and a mini. What i'm interested to know and if anybody is just prepared to bullet point, is how we can really benefit from this software.
Clearly it's going to be tricky administering 11 macs individually, so maybe sacrifice the mini to become the server. Heres some basic questions and if anybody has any other comments they can add from experience i can approach the school with my findings?
1) Can multiple third party software installations be initiated. i.e. we have Adobe CS3 can a multiple install be initiated over the network or would all machines have to be updated individually.
2) A big concern is storage, if a server is used can files be stored locally on the machines or would they have to be stored on the server, Xserve isn't on the cards unfortunately. Is it like a windows server where the profile is stored on the server and then just downloaded to the appropriate machine. For the meantime we ideally need to store locally or on firewire drives to keep storage issues to a minimum. It's no problem making students stick to the same mac if we can make this happen.
3) Could backups be initiated from all machines to some sort of storage facility.
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Being a school i would be grateful for any advice or recommendations on how administering this small network would be easiest done. I'm an experienced mac user but no in a network scenario, i am however keen to learn.
Thanks in Advance

Hi, I'll give a go at answering your questions.
First, how tricky it will be to administer 11 macs individually truly depends on your users. I've setup offices where the employees were intelligent people who weren't interested in hacking around on their machines, they just did their work. All their user accounts had admin privileges (along with an admin account on each machine that only the appropriate people knew the password for) so they could easily change preferences and do updates, etc. I barely had a problem with them. If you have a group who are all into surfing naughty bits and bittorrenting and other things, then you'll need to lock them down. If you are going to lock them down, you can still do it without the aid of a server by having an admin account on each machine, but you will have to touch each machine periodically to install updates and such. If you do go with server, then you can manage a lot more centrally. By the nature of you having 11 machines and the limit of OS X client of only 10 file sharing connections at a time, you're almost forced into OS X Server and the Unlimited version at that.
1) Yes you can initiate software installations simultaneously, but it will require you to capture and package those installations, and use something along the lines of FileWave, radmind, Apple Remote Desktop, etc. to perform the push. For the number of users you're dealing with, it's probably much easier to host the installer on the network, and screen control each system and run the install (along with entering the serial numbers for each one). Any future updates could be easily performed with a terminal script and access to the updater files.
2) You can store your files anywhere you want, locally or on the server (or even on a NAS). Obviously it makes sense to host them on the server (or other central location) if they are collaborative files (ie., everyone works on them or needs to see them). Your question about the windows profiles doesn't make sense with the storage part, but you can choose how to run your server/client model. You can have roaming profiles where the users' home directories are stored on the server and they can login from any machine. Or you can have individual machines and the server only authenticates the user for access to mail/file/whatever services.
3) Yes. Either by using Time Machine if it gets fixed in 10.5.2, Retrospect (which I don't trust and haven't for years), rsync (which is free and built into the OS and is cross platform so you could even back up Windows clients), or some other commercial client like PresSTORE.
4) Yes, as I stated above you can lock down the client machines and of course server can be locked down to avoid people from messing it up.
I know you mentioned an Xserve isn't an option, but how about a MacPro tower? In your situation, I would setup a MacPro with a single 2.8Ghz Quad core chip, Unlimited MacOS X Server, 2GB RAM, and 2 x 500 GB SATA drives for $3648 (cheaper if you get the drives from elsewhere). If there's the chance you could migrate other school services to the new server (email, websites, shared calendar, jabber server, etc.) you could upgrade the processor and memory (RAM can also be had cheaper from a 3rd party). You setup the two drives in a mirror RAID for fault protection and it would contain your OS and your file shares. Then get 2 external firewire drives, at least 500 GB each. Configure your network backups (and the server itself) to backup to an external drive, leave it attached for a week, and at the end of the week, eject the drive, disconnect it, and plug in the other drive (both should be named the same). Then take the first drive off-site (to another building on campus, etc.). Repeat every week. This gives you a rotating off-site backup. If even that is not an option, the mini could be the server, but you definitely want to max the RAM, and buy one of those nice mirrored RAID enclosures from OWC as your main drive, along with the 2 externals for rotating backup.
I hope that's answered some of your questions, feel free to ask more if need be. May I ask where you are located? If by some amazing chance we're close by, I might be more of a help. Take care and good luck.
Jeff

Setting up columns to remain in same position when the window is opened

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Making folders stick to columns and keeping the width & height is easy.
Hold down your option key when you adjust them.
With one exception and that's your Hard Drive (at least for me it is).
My Hard Drive will retain its width & height but not the column width.
Tom

[Solved] Gnome-mplayer configuration?

Hi all. i am trying to configure mplayer, specifically gnome-mplayer to play dvd's but it doesn't seem to work. If I run
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Last edited by felixculpa (2013-07-19 00:45:25)

So the preferences in gnome-mplayer live in RAM without being written to a file? See if there's some permission problem preventing it from making the preferences stick, because this sounds like a bug.
Oh and gmplayer is a crappier GUI that used to come with the mplayer package. You can try it by recompiling with --enable-gui.

Doesn't retain any settings

My Safari 3 Beta (S3b) doesn't retain any settings... homepage, window size, bookmarks, tab settings (anything in the preferences for that matter) when I close and reopen S3b. I posted a bug report, but anyone have any ideas here?
Joe Mac
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fairly experimental advice, since i've only had the puppy installed on belladonna for a few ... hours, it would be still ...
... but let's check to see if this is an issue with damaged preference files.
Quit Safari.
in XP, the Safari preference files live in the following two locations:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari
You might have to turn on "Show hidden files and folders" to find the preference folders (Application Data and Local Settings are "hidden" folders). Right-click "My Computer", select "Open", go "Tools > Folder Options". Click the "View" tab. The "Show hidden files and folders" radio button is in the center scrolling panel.
("username" here is the name of the user account on the PC that you're getting this problem in. for example, on belladonna "username" = "owner".)
drag those two folders to the desktop, and then try launching Safari again. (that should rebuild your preference folders.)
do changes to your preferences "stick" now, with fresh preference folders in place?

How to keep the Zoom level in Safari 7?

There is only one big win that's making me stick to Chrome over Safari: The zoom.
In Chrome when you zoom in a page (With Cmd +) the zoom level is stored in the cookies, or the history, or somwhere, and it stays the same level when you open again that page in another tab or if you close and open again Chrome. This simple feature makes it tremendously comfortable to navigate in big and wide screens.
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It never worked the way Chrome works in Safari 6 either, but at least Safari 6 remembered the zoom level you'd set in a particular tab. With Safari 7 Apple has made the situation even worse. Now after setting the zoom level you want, it's forgotten when you click on a bookmark, and the page reverts to actual size. It really is infuriating having to zoom in all the time, and the CSS trick and the various zoom extensions don't work properly. Safari is all but unusable for me because of this issue. I've complained to Apple many times about it in the past, but now I've given up believing it'll ever change. It seems that Chrome will forever conquer Safari thanks to an easy-to-fix issue Apple refuses to fix.

HT2506 Change the Thumbnail view in Preview (Mac)

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I am wondering if there is the chance to change the thumbnails view in order to display pdf pages on two or more columns, the same as in acrobat it is increasing or decreasing the size of the thumbnail window or zooming in/out in the same window.
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Minimally, are you aware that Artists view has an Artwork Size slider under the View Options menu item? These preferences stick with the application.
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http://www.laptop-keys.com sells replacements for pretty cheap. Check out their laptop key repair kits.

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