Notepad verses Textedit & HTML

I have a problem. I'm taking a HTML class and working on the HTML files at home on my MAC using an application called Textwrangler. When I try open these html files in class on a PC with Notepad, I lose all my carrage returns and it displays my code all on one line, even when viewing the source code from Internet Explorer. Is there a text edit application for MAC that will translate properly to PC's Notepad? Thanks.

I use textedit for html and it has a problem with the danish letters æ ø and å. When i save my code as a html file and open it in safari, æ ø and å are replaced by Ã¦ Ã¸ Ã¥.
It looks like you have Safari set to open pages in Western Latin-1 by default, but your html is in UTF-8.
So if you want you can just go to View > Text Encoding in Safari and choose UTF-8. But you should have a meta charset statement in your html to tell Safari what encoding you are using, so viewers do not have to guess about that.

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Textedit + html +æøå

I use textedit for html and it has a problem with the danish letters æ ø and å. When i save my code as a html file and open it in safari, æ ø and å are replaced by Ã¦ Ã¸ Ã¥.

I use textedit for html and it has a problem with the danish letters æ ø and å. When i save my code as a html file and open it in safari, æ ø and å are replaced by Ã¦ Ã¸ Ã¥.
It looks like you have Safari set to open pages in Western Latin-1 by default, but your html is in UTF-8.
So if you want you can just go to View > Text Encoding in Safari and choose UTF-8. But you should have a meta charset statement in your html to tell Safari what encoding you are using, so viewers do not have to guess about that.

Square boxes in Notepad from TextEdit file

When I put carriage returns in a TextEdit .txt file, they show up as square boxes in one long line in Notepad on a PC.
How do I solve this without needing to worry about how it will display in Notepad?

That's been a problem with straight text files between the Mac OS and Windows since forever. One uses a line feed character to start a new paragraph, and the other uses a carriage return. I don't remember which OS does what.
The Mac has no problem with this difference and will display a Notepad (or any other straight text document) from Windows as you would expect it to look. But Windows never interprets the way a Mac handles text file paragraph breaks correctly.

What html code will start an EXE (program) with a click on a webpage link?

The code in bold below worked. After I switched my browser from IE 11 to Firefox to get the hover on hotspots to work, the program gave me this error message. I moved the EXE file to my local file folder and tried it as shown below. Still no success. Any suggestions?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Family Tree Charts</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><style type="text/css">

</style></head>
<body link=blue vlink=blue>
<table width="100%" height="25" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
 <td width="93%" height="27" bgcolor="#EFEFEF"> <div align="center">
 This Software Allows You To Review Neat Charts of Your Family Tree </div></td>
 <td width="7%" bgcolor="#CCFFFF"> <div align="center"><A href="Mementos_Menu.html">Back</a></div></td>
</tr>
</table> <center>
 
Click the link below to download a special software program for your PC. 
 
<a href="http://jdmcox.com/">Cox Website</a> 
ITEM 1 (AT THIS WEBSITE) IS THE FAMILY TREE CHART PROGRAM. 
It is called Simple Family Tree 
<table width="80%" border="2" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
 <td width="49%" align="left" valign="top">Click the link below to use this special software program after you download and install the program. 
 

<a href="C:\Users\Tom and Polly\Documents\Genealogy CD\Simple Family Tree\Simple Family Tree.exe">Family Tree Charts Program</a> 
Click the "run" button for both warning messages. 
Click the "READ THIS!" menu option when the program opens. 
Click "X" in the upper right to close the program. 
You can update the family data in future years with this program too.
 </td>
 <td width="51%" align="left" valign="top">NOTE 1: Be sure your HTML code for this webpage has a proper line to link to the location where the software was installed. You can use NOTEPAD to make HTML code changes. My existing line is: 
 "c:\program files (x86)\simple family tree\simple family tree.exe" 
 The underlined portion will need to agree with where the program was installed. Just change the directory (see underlined sample above). Good luck. If I am still living, call me. 
 NOTE 2: After you download, install, and try to use the program, you may get an error message window that looks like this -"0 FAMS @F191 @ FAM". This means you have an individual record in your GEDCOM file that does not have a parent. Be sure all GEDCOM records have at least one parent even if you must name the parent UNKNOWN.</td>
</tr>
</table>
 </center>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
 <tr>
 <td bgcolor="#EFEFEF"> ©2002 Sales and People</td>
 </tr>
</table></body>
</html>

Herbert:
Here is my latest code attempt, but I get messages about the lines in BOLD that I do not understand.
Perhaps you will see what I need to fix. Sure appreciate what you have found and shared with such a neophyte (aka dumbo).
Tom

function RunExe(path) {
try {
var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if (ua.indexOf("msie") != -1) {
MyObject = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell")
MyObject.Run(path);
} else {
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");
var exe = window.Components.classes['@mozilla.org/file/local;1'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
exe.initWithPath(path);
var run = window.Components.classes['@mozilla.org/process/util;1'].createInstance(Components.inteinterfaces.nsIProcess);
run.init(exe);
var parameters = ["/c start Simple Family Tree.exe"];
run.run(false, parameters, parameters.length);
} catch (ex) {
alert(ex.toString());
This Software Allows You To Review Neat Charts of Your Family Tree
Back
Click the link below to download a special software program for your PC and your GED file.
*Cox Website*
ITEM 1 (AT HIS WEBSITE) IS HIS FAMILY TREE CHART PROGRAM.
It is called Simple Family Tree
Click the link below to look at my GEDCOM file contents. Instructions are provided in the READ THIS menu option at the top of the window.
*Show Yarnall Chart*
*Return to this webpage by clicking on the backarrow after looking at the chart.
You can update the family data in future years with this program too.*
©2002 Sales and People
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:09:18 -0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: What html code will start an EXE (program) with a click on a webpage link?
 Re: What html code will start an EXE (program) with a click on a webpage link?
 created by Herbert2001 in Dreamweaver support forum - View the full discussion
Perhaps this might be helpful:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/opendownload-10902/
It allows executables in Firefox to be run - it is an extenstion, though, so it must be installed in Firefox before your page will work.
Another option is this solution, but it will still require a manual change in Firefox:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=803615
Or this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6472435/running-exe-in-firefox-why- do-i-get-an-error
However, you will still have problems with getting it to work cross-browser. Honestly, browsers are not supposed to have access like that to the client side file system, which absolutely makes sense for the web.
That is why you may have to approach the solution from a different angle - perhaps create a server side cloud version of your application(s) which can be easily accessed and run by your family members. I believe you used C to develop the applications? Although I have no experience with this framework, Wt might be a solution to convert your projects to server side applications:
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
Good luck!
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Enlarging the fonts in mail and textedit

The text in my mail and text edit is tiny! I've tried to enlarge them by going to "fonts" but all I can do is make them more "bold" which helps but for some reason the computer ignores my attempts to change the size of the lettering.
I see where is says "size" and i click on it and increase the numbers but still no change in the size of text in both mail and text edit. What am I doing wrong?

The problem with small text in received messages is due to the sender using HTML for message composition.
Copied from Why HTML in E-Mail is a Bad Idea.
Because it introduces accessibility problems. When you write in plain text, the receiving mail client renders the text in whatever font the reader chooses. When you format email with HTML, the sender controls the formatting. But this is a trap: You only think your message will render the same way to the viewer as it appears to the sender. In reality, the receiver can end up squinting because the font looks so tiny, or vice versa. HTML is not rendered the same way from one viewing client to the next - all guarantee of accessiblity goes out the window. This is especially problematic for visually impaired persons.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors.
Next to Message Font, choose your Font and size. The size chosen for the Message font will be used for message text when receiving a message that was composed in Plain Text but not for message text when receiving a message that was composed in HTML since the sender controls the formatting when using HTML for message composition.
When a message is received that was composed in HTML (and you will know this when the message text is tiny), you can add the Bigger/Smaller buttons to the message toolbar and select Bigger to enlarge all text or at the menu bar, go to View > Message and select Plain Text Alternative and the message text will be converted to your chosen font and font size.

FF16.02: opens webpage HTML file as code instead of webpage, seems to save as temporary .txt instead of html.

Hi,
I'm using FF 16.0.2
I have to open a link/attachment on a webpage that is a .html file.
When I click open, regardless of what software I use to do so: OpenOffice, IE, FF, notepad, wordpad - only HTML code is seen. This is what I assume to be because of what "jscher2000" mentioned - the URL is converted into a HTML.txt file.
Notably, if I go to the website on IE and open the HTML file through it, it works no problem. I have tried disabling addons.
I have been looking for fixes & addons to go around this problem, but none so far. First time posting!

See my answer here: [[/questions/930461#answer-378263]]

What application can I write html in?

Hey, I was a windows user, and I used notepad to write HTML. What program on the mac is capiable of doing that?
Sorry, I couldn't find a previous thread on it.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/6404000/wo/1i4Jt 1A4K2P12lDcQyizUDwg2eg/1.0.19.1.0.8.25.7.11.5.3
there's an application for HTML

Textedit bug illustrated

As noted in other discussions, Textedit in Lion now has a bug that changes the extension of an existing HTML file to ".txt". (regardless of Textedit preferences, as suggested in other threads) It's just this simple... Open a Textedit HTML file, make any change, and quit. The extension changes to ".txt". Movie (3.6 MB) showing the action is at http://www.mikejamesmedia.com/textedit_lion_bug.mov It's possible to change the extension back manually, after quitting Textedit, but this is no way to work. I hope this is fixed immediately, as I've been using Textedit exclusively to write my web sites for many years, and this is a major problem. Thank you.

Just checked this out, with the .1 update, and found the bug still alive and messing up html files. Guess I'll have to change my Automator service to open html files in TextWrangler instead of TextEdit for quick edits.
For everyone who is being bitten by this bug: please send feedback directly to Apple here:
Apple - Mac OS X - Feedback
That's the only way to be sure the engineers will know about the problem. And the more complaints, the most likely some resources will be used to fix things.
Francine

Creating Flash/Html Website Front Page

HI, i hope someone can help clear up my confusion.
Im creating a website in flash at the moment. I want the
first page of the site to be am HTML page where people without
flash can view the page (download flash if they havent got it) then
enter the site. Is this initial HTML page which will link to the
main flash site created within flash somehow or is it created in a
programme such as dreamweaver then links to the flash movie?
Thanks so much for any help (im new to flash so a bit unsure
of the complete process off making the site accessable for people
withouth flash and publishing to the web)
Adam

if ur using front page it easy...you don't link to individual
flash files but to html pages with flash embedded in them. you
create your flash website...and make sure you publish it by
selecting HTML and Flash in the publish settings..you embed the swf
file into a html page by opening the published html in notepad
copying the html and pasting it into front page. this html allows
the flash site to be seen. within that html there is a line of code
for an alternate page which will lead people without flash to a
different page..you can change this if u wish to one that you have
created allowing people to download flash player.

Art board changes from CS3 to CC?

We are updating our workflow, and with it, software. Going from CS3 to the creative cloud. For years we have stuck to CS3 as our downstream customers were slow to update and it was beneficial to provide the product in an older format usable to the broadest user base. Now we are upgrading to CC and I'm experiencing difficulty translating older Illustrator documents to Creative Cloud.
My understanding of the Art board is that it defines the live matter area of the artwork. Along with the Zero Zero point, this would serve as the starting point for image setters. When I preview the translated documents, the art board and the coordinates change. when I distill an eps into a pdf, i get a totally different result than when I save as a PDF within the program. Ive also experinced the zero zero point changing simply by opening the document again. This is making production very difficult as it seems like its not stable.
Anyone experience this in CC and is there a fix for it? See screen grabs below:
This is the way the document appears in Illustrator, notice the zero zero point.
When the document is distilled, the art board shrinks:

LTU,
how do I fix it so its consistent?
I believethe following ways still work:
A) Install and run the script in the OP of this thread,http://forums.adobe.com/thread/890507?tstart=30
or
B) Manually change the relevant preference settings as follows:
0) Close down Illy (you can only change the preference file with Illy closed);
1) Find and open the AIPrefs (Win speak) or Adobe Illustrator Prefs (Mac speak) file withe a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit; the preference file is a (hidden) file in the (hidden) folder Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings
2): Find and change the following two bits of code:
/isRulerOriginTopLeft 1 >>> /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0 (change 1 to 0)
/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 >>> /isRulerIn4thQuad 0 (change 1 to 0)
This is a global change so you only have to do it once (just as you can undo it once).
You may find the folder as described in <a href="http://www.bugge.com/Family-and-friends/Illy/illy.html">Move the folder</a>.
Also, it doesn't explain the discrepancy between Distiller and saving as a PDF within CC.
I have no clue about that one, I am afraid. I hope someone else has.
Someone?

Font error in InDesign CS

Hello,
I've had no problems with InDesign until now and I don't know what I might have done to create this error. When I try to print a Postscript file I get the error message: Export Error. There is a problem with the font "HoeflerText-Italic".
Alternatively, I make an export directly to a PDF file and the result is that the text with "HoeflerText-Italic" is extended hosisontally, way out of its limits.
I would appreciate any ideas of what might be a solution to this; I have a deadline approaching next week.
Lars

Petteri, whilst correct, this really does not happen "because CS is old". The font technology was there in 2003, and it's virtually (possibly entirely) unchanged since then. And InDesign's font handling is famously independent of system upgrades (for example, it is untouched by the Snow Leopard/Type 1/Quark problems).
Lars, try using this font with another application -- Word, or even Notepad or TextEdit -- but not one of Adobe's (see below why). If the same happens in another program, the actual font files themself may be damaged. Throw them away and reinstall from the original files.
If not, you can try clearing ID's font cache. This web page: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/323/323354.html, solution #2, describes how to do this. It's entirely harmless; when ID sees the database is no longer there, it will rebuild it from scratch. The font database can be used by several Adobe apps, so that's why it's no use to try with Illustrator.

File Crashing on Output - printing/PDF/other

Firstly - with any file that is repeatedly crashing make a backup of it Immediately!
Option 1
Try to remove corruption using the Export/Save to IDML link to how to here
Option 2
Determine how many pages in your document
Export or Print your document in halves, i.e., if it's 200 pages then export or print page 1-100 then page 101-200
Keep halving the document pages until you find the problem pages, i.e., 1-100 crashes then try 1-50 and 51-100, then 1-25 and 26-50 etc. until you've found the page(s) that are crashing
When you've narrowed it down to a single page or multiple pages try to find out what is causing it to crash you can do this by:
Move half the items on the page to the Pasteboard (do not delete them) and try to export again, if it crashes then move more items to the pasteboard and so on until you find the culprit(s)
Recreate the object(s), i.e., if a particular image is causing it to crash, then don't duplicate that frame. You should use File>Place and replace the image within the layout in a new graphic frame.
Images
If the file still crashes then you should resave the image as a complete new file name and different file extension, if it's PSD then save as TIFF or vice versa.
(Note some special file formats like DCS or EPS and PDF should not be opened in Photoshop if they contain vector elements - if you don't know if they do or do not please do not open them in Photoshop)
Text Frames
Copy that text and Place it in a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit to strip all the formatting.
Create a new Text Frame and reimport the text by using File>Import or using Copy and Paste
Restyle the text to your liking
Any suggestions, edits or other workflows for files that won't output via print or other method, or will not export using File>Export are thoroughly welcome.

Thanks for posting this Eugene.
An additional comment about "fixing" problem text:
I often have very good luck replacing text that is causing file crashes using InDesign Tagged Text, which will preserve the formatting. To export tagged text you must have some sort of active text cursor, either a selection, or just a flashing cursor in the story. With an active cursor InDesign Tagged Text will become an option in the "type" dropdown when you select File > Export...
If you have selected some text, only the selection will be exported. A flashing cursor with no text selected will export the entire story, even if it is threaded across many pages. You will have two options after choosing tagged text and pressing OK in the dialog, abbreviated or verbose, and it doesn't seem to matter which you choose, other than a small difference in the size of the text file that is saved. To use the tagged text file you place it, in the same way you would place a Word file or other text file, but ID will interpret the internal tagging and bring it in formatted.
I will often replace an entire story this way, but on occasion I've also found it works well to export either the entire story, or just a selection of a section I've identified as a problem, then place the tagged text file on the pasteboard. From there I will copy the text I need and paste into position replacing a problem paragraph or two. This seems to give an added layer of cleanup without losing the formatting.
I actually developed this technique a few years ago working on a file that was causing problems for Eugene, but I'm not sure he remembers.

Why does the move command move down instead of up?

When I have an object selected and hit "Enter" it brings up the "Move" dialog box... why do positive vertical numbers move the item down and negative move it up?
It was opposite before (going through Illustrator 3 through CS.) Is there a way to change it back?

Tilde,
They have reversed the Y axis. But you can unreverse it and get back to what you are used to.
To change the ruler origin (and direction of the Y axis) in CS5 - CC(2014) to be the same as in CS4 and earlier, you may:
A) Install and run the script in the OP of this thread,http://forums.adobe.com/thread/890507?tstart=30
or
B) Manually change the relevant preference settings as follows:
0) Close down Illy (you can only change the preference file with Illy closed);
1) Find and open the AIPrefs (Win speak) or Adobe Illustrator Prefs (Mac speak) file withe a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit; the preference file is a (hidden) file in the (hidden) folder Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings
2): Find and change the following two bits of code:
/isRulerOriginTopLeft 1 >>> /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0 (change 1 to 0)
/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 >>> /isRulerIn4thQuad 0 (change 1 to 0)
This is a global change so you only have to do it once (just as you can undo it once).
You may find the folder as described in <a href="http://www.bugge.com/Family-and-friends/Illy/illy.html">Move the folder</a>.

Dreamweaver CC randomly started crashing (persisting)

I'm on Windows 7. I'm coding the 3rd page on my website in html5 and css3 and Dreamweaver CC randomly gets a pop-up saying it stops working. Okay, whatever. I can't close DW, so I do a hard-restart.
Crashes again within 5 seconds of opening DW. I try another hard restart. Now I go into adobe creative and see an update is available. OKAY, mabye that was why it crashed.
It's not.
I last mabye a minute in Dreamweaver CC after the update, and it crashes yet again. What is going on?! Everything was perfectly fine from when I purchased it in december up until a couple hours ago.
I don't know if any of this info should be posted or not but this is what the error box reads.......
Problem Event Name:
APPCRASH
Application Name:
Dreamweaver.exe
Application Version:
13.2.0.6466
Application Timestamp:
52a8e373
Fault Module Name:
MSVCR100.dll
Fault Module Version:
10.0.40219.325
Fault Module Timestamp:
4df2be1e
Exception Code:
40000015
Exception Offset:
0008d6fd
OS Version:
6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:
1033
Additional Information 1:
e5ae
Additional Information 2:
e5aec794b423e9d323f1cb95479efa6d
Additional Information 3:
0368
Additional Information 4:
0368a50a24d428db796f1daafd60d7f4

Open the corrupted page in a plain text editor like Notepad or TextEdit. Validate code and fix reported errors.
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
JavaScript - http://www.jslint.com/
PHP - http://phpcodechecker.com/
SaveAs some new filename.html. Delete the corrupted file from your site folder.
Nancy O.

Gif animations in Mail

I've read some threads about this problem, and while there is lively debate, there doesn't seem to be an answer. So I thought I would try it again with a new question.
A friend of mine (he has an old IMac) forwarded me an email with an animated gif. It was funny, and I wanted to forward it on. But I have never been able to do this. If I try to save the file, it saves as a MIME attachment, and I can't even open it. If I Download the file, the Get Info says it is a gif file, but if I open it in Preview, or attach it to a new email, it no longer animates and is just a still picture.
I tried forwarding the original email with the animated gif back to myself, and when it arrives, it no longer animates. My friend is no help. He's not really in to computing. He told me he just gets them from somebody else, and forwards it to me.
So why can I see the animated gif in my Mail, but can't save it, download it, cut & paste it, or forward it? I tried the Append Message suggestion from an old post, and that did not work either.
I noticed in some of the old posts some people seem to really hate gif's. I don't really care one way or the other. I just want to understand why my computer can receive them, but can't do anything else with them.

Although Jaguar and Panther Mail renders HTML received, they do not support composing HTML which also includes when forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML including animated gifs.
Although you cannot compose complex HTML within the body of a message with Tiger Mail, RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML and supports forwarding a message received that was composed in HTML including animated gifs.
Reason for this: if you automatically render all HTML received (with any email client with OS X) and a spammer uses HTML for message composition and includes embedded images or objects that must be rendered from a remote server, if the Mail.app Junk Mail filter does not automatically mark the message as junk and you open the message, this can reveal that your email address is valid to the spammer causing more spam to be received.
Copied from Why HTML in E-Mail is a Bad Idea:
"Because it introduces accessibility problems. When you write in plain text, the receiving mail client renders the text in whatever font the reader chooses. When you format email with HTML, the sender controls the formatting. But this is a trap: You only think your message will render the same way to the viewer as it appears to the sender. In reality, the receiver can end up squinting because the font looks so tiny, or vice versa. HTML is not rendered the same way from one viewing client to the next - all guarantee of accessiblity goes out the window. This is especially problematic for visually impaired persons."
Because it can introduce security issues and trojan horses -- it's a gateway to danger as any Outlook user can tell you. HTML can include any number of scripts, dangerous links, controls, etc.
Powerbook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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