The info panel

Hello everyone,
I use iCal a lot (in OS X 10.4.11) and have noticed that in 10.5 and 10.6 the 'permanent' info panel has disappeared.
Does anyone know if you can get it back?
I often need to see my entire month's calendar as well as the details of one specific event so having it is very useful.
Cheers for any help.

simon.goodwin,
Use iCal>Edit>Show Inspector to gain access to to the "Inspector" window.
;~)

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Ian Jaffray wrote:
Noel,
Thanks for your reply. I thought this had been fixed by recreating the Preferences file, but this morning I was back to percentages. I did have different settings in the Info Panel from the ones in your very helpful picture, and after I changed mine to match yours I now see 0-255 values in the R, G, B settings when using the eyedropper on this grayscale image.
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When 8-bit is chosen for the value format, we expect a value of 0..255 to be displayed. As you know, that works fine for the RGB readout, but a Grayscale readout displays a percentage instead.
So if you set one of the readouts to RGB and 8-bit, you can get 0..255 values to be displayed for your Grayscale document.
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Uh.
WTF?
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D Fosse wrote:
I'm not trying to argue...well, I am - but if you could explain precisely what you're after I'm sure it's doable.
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Product name: Fireworks
Product Version: 12.0.0.236
Product Language: English
Your operating system: Mac OS 10.6.8 (Intel-based)
******BUG******
Concise problem statement: The Info panel displays incorrect Hue values for many colors—including pure Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta. The Hue values are usually 1 degree below the value displayed in the Color Mixer panel (e.g., 59 instead of 60 for Yellow) but sometimes 1 degree above (e.g., 301 instead of 300 for Magenta). This is true whether using the Eyedropper tool or the Color Picker swatches eyedropper, and whether sampling from the canvas or from swatches.
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Hi there.
I'm working on a 550 page catalogue. As many problems with InDesign start, we've converted the file from Quark Xpress into InDesign.
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font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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overflow: auto;"
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Info panel

hi,
I want to use the info panel. So I open a new document, and I Paste an image into a blank indesign file. I try to see the effective PPI, but the screen stays blank (as in, there is no information in "Type","Actual PPI", "Effective PPI" and "Color Space"). Eventhough I selected the image. What am I doing wrong? I posted a Small screenshot. I am on the mac version, cs6.

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Here I've made a 1"x1" 1000ppi file in Photoshop with small rasterized text and an image, then pasted (left) and placed (right).
If I scale both up 300% the placed version shows an effective ppi of 333ppi as expected:
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