Need a little help?

I left for work today after using my mac book pro and when I came home it will not start. I turned it off with no problem before I left but now all it does is power up for a few seconds and then off. All that lights up is the light next to the screen latch release and I don't even hear the usual hard drive starting to spin. Its dead in the water and I have tried taking out the memory and flip flopping it around as well as putting in a different battery. Any ideas to lead me in the right direction would be great. Thanks in advance.

Justin, there are several things you can try - & more if these don't work.
Try starting in safe mode by holding the shift key until you see the grey Apple logo screen.
If this doesn't work, try inserting the original dvd and restarting with the c key held until the Apple logo appears.
If this doesn't work, you could have a more serious problem. Unfortunately these can happen with no apparent previous warning.
Also try starting in target mode by holding the t key at startup until the target screen appears.
If any of these work we can suggest further steps.
Neville

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    I'm wondering if I get hold on of say an image of a car, could I have this converted to black and white and then delete parts of it so that it can be cut out on a vinyl cutter?
    When converting it, I would like most of the image deleted but to keep the rough outlines and some shading etc so the image looks great and can be cut out on a cutter.
    I know I'm not explaining this too well but I hope you can understand what I mean.
    Many thanks,

    You might be in for quite a bit of work if you want to convert an image of a car to something that can be cut on a vinyl cutter and successfully turned into cut vinyl graphics. Not only do the resulting paths need to be clean, but all the line work must be large/thick enough in order to be successfully cut on the vinyl cutter and weeded by hand before applying release tape. Really thin line work can get chewed up by the plotter blade or it can get messed up when you're trying to weed away the negative vinyl areas of the cut graphics.
    The current live trace filter in Illustrator is not vinyl cutter friendly. The problem is it produces too many small objects that are too small to cut and it makes objects that are really stroked, open path segments. Vinyl cutting requires all of the paths to be closed. Sometimes I'll have better luck using the "Create Work Path" function in Photoshop for this sort of thing. Take a high contrast black and white or grayscale image, use the Color Range dialog box to create a selection and then use the Create Work Path command. It typically generates paths that are all closed. After that you do a little editing work to get rid of tiny objects too small to cut. Go to the File menu and select Export Paths to Illustrator.
    For the best results you have to digitize the paths by hand. It goes much faster if you have a graphics tablet.

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