Wires/Amp kit for my bass system

I need to know what kind of amp kit and speaker wire to get for my 2 12" kenwood W3012 subwoofers (400 watt continuous power and 1200 peak) and kenwood 9104D 1800 watt amp. I have an aftermarket stereo and it has subwoofer crossover (as in the aux ports behind it) and subwoofer controls built into the radio. I have been told to use 0-4 ga battery and ground wires and 12 ga speaker wire. If at all possible i would like a quality kit but for no more than $100 but more to my suiting of around $50. Any help will be appreciated.

J-nick –
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System Recovery Kit for dv7-3165dx fails to restore factory image to replacement hd

I'm posting this wall of text here in case someone else has any suggestions before I contact HP Support to see what options they have.
My attempt to recover the factory image to a replacement hard drive in an HP Pavilion dv7-3165dx notebook is failing. An error occurs when SM.exe is trying to merge the WIM files. The SSRD.Log shows an error:
SM, 13, Set reference file fail
after that, SM.exe displays this message when run from a command line:
SM, Failure, Can not load imagex 1 from src WIM file
The following are the symptoms that the Recovery Manager displays on the screen.
The Recovery Manager reads the two DVDs and after a few seconds, it pops up an error message:
Reducer
C:\RM\Image\TempBASE.WIM was not found.
The message has on "OK" button that when clicked on, closes the message window.
After that, nothing happens. No disk or DVD activity for over an hour. The mouse moves, but no key presses have any effect, including CTRL-ALT-DEL. You can use the mouse to move the Recovery Manager window around, and there is nothing hidden behind it. Clicking on the Recovery Manager Back, Next, or Cancel buttons produce no response at all.
The only option at this point is to hold down the power switch until it powers down.
When the power is turned back on, the hard drive boots and Recovery Manager displays a message that incorrectly claims "Recovery is complete" and has a "Click Finish to restart" button. After clicking on "Finish", it reboots but since the System Recovery did not actually complete, all it does is display:
BOOTMGR is missing
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart
Before attempting the recovery, the notebook passed all diagnostic tests.
The 2x2GB memory cards, which still have HP stickers on them, were tested with Memtest86+ V5.01 and completed over six passes in over seven hours with zero errors.
The replacement 500GB HGST Travelstar Z5K500 drive was tested with gsmartcontrol. The SMART status showed no errors in the past with over 400 hours of power-on time. Both of the SMART short self-test and extended self-test tests were run, which it passed without any errors.
The HP System Diagnostics from the Startup Menu were run on the memory and hard drive and they passed those tests without any errors.
While waiting for the HP "System Recovery Kit for Consumer Notebook (3 Disks)" Software Part Number 599357-001 to arrive, both Fedora 21 64bit and Windows Vista 64bit were successfully installed on the harddrive.
Both System Recovery DVDs were read on different machines without any errors. This System Recovery Kit supports the notebook's System Id which is 3638, so they appear to be the correct discs.
Now a list of workaround attempts that were suggested.
After the Recovery Manager failed a few times with the same error message, some googling came up with other users mentioning the "TempBASE.WIM was not found" error message. I tried these suggestions that I read about.
Run KillDisk to fill the HD with zeros.
Running Recovery Manager after that failed with the same error message.
Run the CyberLink Recovery Discs Utility (sp44645.exe).
Running Recovery Manager after that failed with the same error message.
Installed Windows VISTA 64bit again and upgraded the BIOS from F10 to F13.
Running Recovery Manager after that failed with the same error message.
Try only using a single 2GB memory card to see if it was a 64bit problem.
Running Recovery Manager after that failed with the same error message.
The BIOS does not have an option to change from AHCI mode to IDE mode.
I don't have a Windows 7 OEM install disc and am trying to avoid spending $100 to buy one.
That is when I decided that it is not a PC hardware problem, but a problem with the HP System Recovery Kit. Here are the details of what I think the Kit is doing.
After running Recovery Manager and getting the error message, instead of just re-booting and letting the "Recovery is complete" message appear, I re-booted with a Linux USB drive and inspected what was on the hard drive.
fdisk -l shows this:
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa5dddc41
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 409600 143013887 142604288 68G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 * 143013888 143833087 819200 400M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
fsarchiver probe shows this:
[======DISK=] [=============NAME====] [====SIZE==] [MAJ] [MIN]
[sda ] [HGST HTS545050A7    ] [ 465.76 GB] [ 8] [ 0]
[=====DEVICE] [==FILESYS==] [=====LABEL=] [====SIZE==] [MAJ] [MIN]
[sda1 ] [ntfs    ] [<unknown>    ] [    68.00 GB] [    8] [     1]
[sda2                 ] [vfat    ] [SDV ] [ 400.00 MB] [   8] [ 2]
Running gparted shows about 200 MB of unallocated space before the sda1 NTFS partition. The rest of the disk is unallocated after the bootable sda2.
The sda1 NTFS partition has a \SSRD.Log file and an empty \RM\Image directory.
The sda2 FAT32 partition has the Recovery Manager application files in it:
/mnt/sda2:
total 400
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 Apr 9 23:36 SDV.FLG
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 9 23:36 SYSTEM.SAV
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 1 2009 BOOT
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 1 2009 EFI
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 1 2009 SOURCES
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 2009 TOOL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 383562 Jul 13 2009 bootmgr
The SOURCES directory has boot.wim, and the TOOL directory has all the programs, like Reducer.exe and SM.exe, in it.
After shutting down the Linux system and rebooting, the Recovery Manager then boots from sda2 and displays the "Recovery is complete" message and "Click Finish to restart" button. During this process, it removes the sda2 partition and marks the sda1 NTFS partition as the active bootable partition. When the PC restarts, all that is left is the sda1 NTFS partition with the empty C:\RM\Image directory and the SSRD.Log file, so there is no BOOTMGR to boot with.
The SSRD.Log file logs the tasks that the Recovery Manager performs.
The Recovery Manager runs some initialization tasks and then reads the two System Recovery DVDs. It then calls MergeWimFile which runs SM.exe and starts to merge BASE.WIM with the other BASE*.WIM files. SM.exe merges 20 WIM files with log entries like these:
SM, Success, refName= C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE22.WIM
SM, Success, refName= C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE23.WIM
SM, Success, refName= C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE3.WIM
SM, Success, refName= C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE4.WIM
SM, Success, refName= C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE5.WIM
SM, Success, refName= C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE6.WIM
SM, Success, refName= C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE7.WIM
Then, with only two WIM files left, BASE8.WIM and BASE9.WIM, the log shows:
SM, 13, Set reference file fail
This must be when Recovery Manager pops up the "Reducer C:\RM\Image\TempBASE.WIM was not found" error message.
That narrowed down the problem.
I copied all of the WIM files and the TOOLS directory to a Windows 8.1 system. The two DVDs did not have any errors while being read. Running SM.exe from an admin Command Prompt with the same parameters that were logged in the SSRD.Log produced the same error message. There was an additional error message that appeared in the Command Prompt window:
SM, 13, Set reference file fail
SM, Failure, Can not load imagex 1 from src WIM file
and the TempBASE.WIM was not created.
SM.exe /? did not provide a help message. I could not find any documentation on the SM.exe command.
If I removed three of the WIM files, (BASE7.WIM BASE8.WIM BASE9.WIM) then SM.exe could create the TempBASE.WIM file, but it would fail while merging index 2 of 3 with this message:
SM, 11%, Merge index 2 of 3 Processing
SM, Failed, Export image failed
The TempBASE.WIM is 3,421,518 KB in size after that.
This is where I came to a dead end and cannot think of anything else that I can do. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it appears to me that there was some kind of error building this System Recovery Kit and it is not able to perform a factory install on this notebook.
ps
If I can figure out how to add an attachment, I will add the SSRD.Log file. If not, then ask and I will post it as a followup.

Downloaded Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit which contains the latest imagex program.
Running imagex.exe on the BASE7.WIM file on the second System Recovery DVD:
imagex.exe /info K:\PRELOAD\BASE7.WIM
ImageX Tool for Windows
Version: 6.2.9200.16384
Error opening file [K:\PRELOAD\BASE7.WIM].
The data is invalid.
The same error message is shown for BASE7.WIM, BASE8.WIM, and BASE9.WIM.
The other WIM files in the PRELOAD directory, BASE5.WIM, BASE6.WIM, BASE10.WIM, BASE13.WIM, BASE15.WIM, BASE17.WIM and BASE23.WIM, could be read by imagex without any errors.

What is thes best 5.1 speaker kit for macbook pro 2011

what is the best 5.1 speaker kit for my macbook pro
thanks for help.

A 5.1 is considered a surround sound system, it's typically used in home theater systems, not computers.
A computer doesn't have the necessary electronics to produce the rich quality of sound that a 5.1 system can deliver, the PC 5.1's are just gamers gimmick cards, they too really don't have the necessary electronics or wattage for rich, full bodied sound.
Now I can tell you what works really well as a 5.1 system for iTunes, movies and such from your MacBook Pro, or anything really.
A Harmon Kardon 5.1 Home Theater.
It has 110 Watt speakers, 5 of them, and a 200 watt subwoofer that will make your heart thump in your chest.
You need only two things with this system, a optical stereo mini Toslink adapter and a optical Toslink cable.
You plug one inside your MacBook Pro (enable the optical out) and the other to the receiver and mess with the remote to enable theater mode from the computer for iTunes (takes stereo and makes it quad sound with separate bass)
For playing DVD's with 5.1, you enable the right 5.1 encoding, Dolby, ProLogic etc on both and the Mac passes the 5.1 through the system to the receiver.
For playing 3D games, you just pass the 5.1 through, the receiver handles the surround sound.
The important thing is setup, the listening point needs to be right in the center of the four channel speakers, the center is over your monitor or TV and the subwoofer is stuck in a free corner someplace, it's placement is unimportant, as long as it's in the room and not blocked.
Brother, you have system like this hooked up to your iTunes and tears will be falling from your eyes the music sounds so good. Makes you full hear the full quality of the iTunes bought music.
Will set you back a couple of thousand, but it's worth it. All the cables etc are color coded, easy to setup.
http://www.harmankardon.com/Pages/LocaleSelector.aspx
Hope that helps
(no comp)

Report generation tool kit for vista

Where can we get report generation tool kit software(for vista Operating system) link .one of my friend has given me that software.He said he had got it from internet.can anyone give me the link so that I can download report generation toolkit software (for vista)
Thanks
kiranmayi

Hi Kiranmayi,
You can download Report generation toolkit from the following weblink:
https://lumen.ni.com/nicif/us/evaltlktrepgen/content.xhtml
or you can send a mail to [email protected] stating your full address and your requirement and we can send you evaluation DVD for free.
Thanx
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How do I get recover disc for vista when system will not boot???? For Pavilion pc a6157c

Pavilion pc a6157c How do I get recover disc for vista when system will not boot????

Read THIS HP Support Document concerning ordering recovery discs for your HP a6157c. Go to THIS HP webpage to order the "Vista Home Premium 32bit 73NAv3PrA1 + Supp 4 Recovery Kit" for your computer. If you are not looking to order the recovery discs or have some other issue with your computer, please provide detailed information concerning the problem.
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Hello, I have created a distribution kit for my program.The problem is that the when the program is installed onto another computer, it fails to communicate with field point (Using FP-AO-200 and FP-AO-1000). Help is greatly appreciated, Thanks faen9901

Hi Everyone,
I have a program that sends information(analog output) to lab windows cvi in the form of a text file or user input.
The program runs on the computers that I have the field point explorer and lab windows cvi installed on. In order to run the program without always installing labwindows/cvi and field point; I wanted to create an executable file that could be load on another computer.
I used the create distribution kit part of labwindows/cvi to do this.After creating the distribution kit, I then installed it
to another computer.
My user interface appears on the screen, when the user clicks on the exe. file, but no data is sent to the field point module. I know that the data is being read from the user and textfile because in it appears in the uir.
The following are some details about the problem:
1. On another computer without labwindows/cvi and field point explorer not installed - no data is sent to field point module
I know this because a current is being read on the current meter connected to field point module.
My questions are the following:
1. What are the possible reasons for the data not being sent to the field point module?
2. Do I still need to create an iak. (Installing Field point Explorer) file stored on any new computer that I install my created distribution kit file too?
Thankyou very much for any help that you can provide. I greatly appreciate it.
Faen9901

Re: Hello, I have created a distribution kit for my program.The problem is that the when the program is installed onto another computer, it fails to communicate with field point (Using FP-AO-200 and FP-AO-1000). Help is greatly appreciated, Thanks faen9901Faen9901,
1) If you do not install FieldPoint Explorer, the FieldPoint Server is not installed so there is nothing on the target computer that knows how to talk to the FieldPoint system.
2) Yes, you need an IAK file on the target computer. Assuming the settings (i.e. com port#) are identical you can simply include the iak file as part of the distribution.
3) You also need to include as part of your installer the file "fplwmgr.dll". If this file is not installed, your program will not be able to access the FieldPoint Server. Alternatively, this file is installed automatically if FieldPoint Explorer detects LabWindows/CVI or Measurement Studio Development versions on the target computer or if you choose to do a custom FieldPoint Explorer installation and
choose to provide LabWindows/CVI support.
Regards,
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Team,
We have installed BOE XI 3.1 SP2. Now we are insalling BOE SAP Integration kit (for XI 3.1)
The OS Version is AIX 6.1
The system is throwing following error during installation of integration kit
<.........>/patches/patchlevel.sh: invalid patch name: unsupported.aix.release
AIX: Your system is missing required components (STU00120):
<.........>/setup/patches/patchlevel.sh: invalid patch name: unsupported.aix.release
If you continue your installation may not work correctly. (STU00109)
Can you please let me know if Integration Kit 3.1 is not supported for AIX 6.1 OR
Is it recommended to use another version of Integration Kit for AIX 6.1 ?
Thanks.
Regards,
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Thanks Ingo,
I did comment on "oscheck.$distrOS.sh" from install.sh and could finish the integration kit installation successfully (with BOE XI 3.1 SP2 aleady installed)
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What do I need to install Integration Kit for SharePoint Server 2007

What do I need to install the Integration Kit for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? It gives me an SP3 needed error but does not tell me what SP3. Has any one sucessfully installed this kit? Please help.

Hi,
The sharepoint PIK is available for BO enterprise only. SP3 is refering to BO enterprise XIR2 SP3. This Service Pack is not available for CR 2008. In order to integrate CR 2008 in BO enterprise XIR3 you need to install SP0 on top of CR 2008. But as I said above without BO enterprise you won't be able to use the PIK.
I copied the following system requirements from our Install Guide for BOE XiR3 PIK:
System requirements
For a list of system requirements, consult the Platforms.txt file included
with your product distribution. For additional important information that may
pertain to your deployment, it is also strongly recommended that you consult
the Release Notes included with your product distribution.
In general, the following components must be installed and configured
correctly before you install the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0 Portal
Integration Kit:
u2022 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or Office SharePoint Portal
Server 2003.
u2022 BusinessObjects Enterprise XI .NET SDK (on your SharePoint machine
or machines).
u2022 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (any edition).
u2022 BusinessObjects Enterprise and Crystal Reports (on either the same
machine and/or on a different machine).
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Integration Kit for SAP - Open SQL access to tables. List incomplete.

After we install the BO integration kit for SAP and CR 2008 we were able to connect to SAP and open SAP Data Dictionnary tables (Open SQL access).
I have a problem however:
when I display the list of available tables, the is not showing all the tables in the SAP system. I believe it stops at some point.
I see all tables with low letters or starting with /BIC...
I have custom tables with names ranging from ZR1 to ZR5.
Of these I only see tables up to ZR2*.
My guess is :
either that the table list displayed is limited to a certain mumber of tables
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or there is a table related setting in the Data dictionnary that makes some tables visible by CR and other not
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BO Integration Kit for SAP - Linux

All,
we want to schedule and publish by email reports, created with Crystal Reports 2008 on queries in SAP BW 7.0.
To check the fonctionality we installed Crystal Reports Server 2008 on Linux, Crystal Reports 2008 on Windows. For data access of Crystal Report 2008 to BW we installed the BO Integration Kit for SAP. All software could be downloaded in evaluation versions.
Now we can upload the reports into the CMC of Crystal Reports Server 2008, but when we execute the report, we get the message "failed to load database information". I suppose it is necessary to install the BO Integration Kit for SAP also on the Server side to have data access to BW. Where can I get the evaluation version of BO Instal-lation Kit for SAP for the OS Suse Linux 10.0. ?
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Hi,
Crystal Reports Server does not support the SAP Integration Kit. You need at least the BusinessObjects Edge or BusinessObjects Enterprise system installed.
You need the server environment and the SAP Integration Kit server components.
you can see the supported platforms at :
http://server.sap.com/bosap-support
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BOXI Integration Kit for SAP Prereqs

What are the prerequisites for installing the BOXI integration kit for SAP?
The software we have is Business Objects XI Enterprise Professional for Crystal Reports. The only module that we have looks to be Crystal Reports, version 11.0.0.748. There are two Web Intelligence services running called Web Intelligence Job Server v. 11.0.0.748 and Web Intelligence Report Server v. 11.0.0.284. There is also CR Developer version 11.0.0.895 on the server as well. We do not have BI and will need to connect to infosets on our R3 system.

Hi,
take a look here:
Install Part #1
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/17/businessobjects-and-sap--installation-and-configuration-part-1-of-4
Install Part #2
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/17/businessobjects-and-sap--installation-and-configuration-part-2-of-4
Install Part #3
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/17/businessobjects-and-sap--installation-and-configuration-part-3-of-4
Install Part #4
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/17/businessobjects-and-sap--installation-and-configuration-part-4-of-4
SAP Authentication
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/19/businessobjects-and-sap--configure-sap-authentication
Publishing part 1
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/23/businessobjects-and-sap--publishing-of-crystal-reports-part-1-of-3
Publishing part 2
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/24/businessobjects-and-sap--publishing-of-crystal-reports-part-2-of-3
Publishing part 3
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/24/businessobjects-and-sap--publishing-of-crystal-reports-part-3-of-3
Technical Material
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/11/19/businessobjects-integration-with-sap-netweaver-bi--technical-material
ingo

Install-error "BO Integration KIT -for SAP " STW00152

Hi,
In that installation "BO Integration KIT - for SAP" in the phase "CMS-connecting to CMS" I get a errormessage
"Connect to CMS is not possible. STW00152"
(Befor them, I installed "BO Enterprise XI 3.1 SP3" successfully)
I check the central configuration manager and I see BOE120Tomcat and Server Intelligence Agent was in the status "uncompletedly" and WWW Publishing Service was in status "it is explained". I started boht but I got a errormessage "The system cannot find the path specified"
I open the qualities for the "Server Intelligence Agent" and klick OK - I got a errormessage "the startparameter can't opposed. Error 87. The parameter is incorrect"
thanks .

Hi,
it looks like that even your BOE installation isnt working properly.
Try to reboot the Server and check if your BOE Server starts. After it starts successfull try to install the SAP ITK.
If it doesnt start, i would recommend you re- install BOE first.
Regards
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SAP Integration KIT FOR SAP BO Edge 3.1 Trial

Hi,
The SAP Integration Kit 3.1 for BO Enterprise 3.1 is the same for BO Edge 3.1 Trial or there is a specific for BO Edge?
Because I did the download of BO Edge Trial in the SAP BO area, and install the SAP Integration KIT but the system doesn´t work.
thanks,
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i think that there is a specific Integration Kit for Edge
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Additional effects and amp models for guitar

Do the jam packs include additional amp models and effects or presets? Granted I'm new to GB, but in 2 whole weeks I haven't been able to create 1 acceptable tone using my guitar (real instrument).
Typically, I stay within 4 tones on my practice tube amp. Dirty, clean, and both with slight chorus/reverb/flanger. Standard stuff that I can't seem to come even close to recreating in GB.
I'm looking for an Octave divider as well. Also, can you play bassline on a guitar and drop it 1-2 octaves? Wors't case I assume I could play the line and manually move the note down, right?
Thanks a lot.

I think there are more amps in the JPs, but I don't have any of them. I have heard some good sounds from folks using the amps in GB, but I mic my amp to get my sound. You can open the manual control for each amp and tweak them like you would a real amp. Have you done that? The presets for the guitar amps are a selection of effects and amp settings that are supposed to be for the type of sound the preset suggests. You don't have to keep them the way they are. You can tweak all of the parameters.
For playing bass on your guitar, you can use the vocal transformer plugin (Female to male) to get a lower octave. Some folks have reported this is satisfactory for bass. I have not done it, myself, as I have a bass.
You cannot "move" notes you play on your guitar. You can only move notes on software instrument regions.

AAT Apple Advanced Typography for the writing systems of world scripts

Thomas Gewecke writes:
If I had to choose one problem which does exist and causes considerable practical difficulties for a lot of people, it would be that lack of full OpenType support in OS X (and the resulting requirement for rare AAT fonts) makes it impossible for Mac users to do everything they might want in a number of important scripts, or to do anything at all in quite a few others.
This is a frequently asked question, so perhaps the simplest solution is to try to support this in a separate thread. It is probably preferable to repeat what Apple has published on the Unicode mailing list on the subject of writing systems in world scripts. A link to a supplier of AAT fonts for lesser languages is included in the references (Bassa, Brahmi, Burmese, Cambodian, Georgian, Inuktitut, Kannada, Laotian, Lepcha, Limbu, Malayalam, N'ko, Osmanya, Sinhala, Tai Le, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan ...). The most advanced Arabic implementation is Mishafi from Diwan in London - this has earned praise on Typophile. There are several independent software publishers (aside from Apple iWork) that support authoring with AAT Apple Advanced Typography.
According to the Apple Unicode Liason, Deborah Goldsmith, as of OS X 10.2 it is possible for the small type maker to support a writing system in a world script through the optional Apple MORX Metamorphosis Extended tables in the SFNT Spline Font file format. Dropping an SFNT and an input method into the operating system adds the shaping for the writing system. And according to the Apple Unicode Liason, as of OS X 10.4 the optional Apple MORX tables for complex composition and the optional Microsoft GSUB tables for complex composition may peacefully cohabit in the selfsame SFNT Spline Font file (leaving aside the issue of whether this is sound advice, or whether sound advice should say that an SFNT should contain either TrueType or Type 1, either MORX or GSUB - not both in either case).
Hope this helps,
Henrik
References :
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13047.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2006/Nov/msg00579.html
http://www.xenotypetech.com/
http://www.diwan.com/mishafi/main.htm
http://www.typophile.com/node/16858
http://www.typophile.com/node/18098

Please pardon any speedwriting in the following - it's off the cuff :
From the little I understand about the technical details of the differences between AAT and OpenType, I'd guess AAT to be the superior system, from the user's (or font designer's) point of view.
The issue is the business model. Apple TrueType 2 and Apple ColorSync 2 were developed to provide very, very, very highend character:glyph transforms and colour:colourant transforms in an application-independent manner.
The application model was Java and OpenDoc and while OpenDoc is defunct, as is Taligent, Java within which AAT is embedded is alive and kicking. In the application model the idea was that the small developer did not have to independently do elements outside the scope of the application.
Similarly, a graphics library was available to avoid the problem that PostScript is inherently unreliable as it is a programming model that can be used to extend the PostScript graphics model, causing PostScript programs to crash at critical times.
Software publishers in the nineteen-nineties published software for the standalone personal computer with its suite of standalone software. And the standalone software had its own Application Programming Interface that locked XTensions, Plug-ins and more into one and only one suite.
Adobe did NOT want QuickDraw GX and Adobe still has a 'white' paper in which the company states that the idea of the SFNT Spline Font file format as an application-independent product that takes over large parts of line layout is objectionable.
The pendulum does not stand still, however. In the 1970s there were terminals for time-shared centralised computing. In the 1980s and 1990s there were decentralised 'personal' computers in local area networks with their own storage and with graphic displays and printers.
The growth of instructure, both in terms of distributed networking and in terms of an international character set, permits a blend of time-shared computing and 'personal' graphics computing which was intended e.g. with the Apple MessagePad and with Java (Amelio married the ideas).
Apple bled external and internal developers with the late lamented GX and the application model was ten years ahead of its time. Modern imaging models are founded on the ideas implemented in GX and absolutely NOT on the ideas implemented in PostScript and PDF.
Jonathan Seybold told Apple to do an application for pagination, since an application for pagination is the sine qua non for a composition model, a separation model, and a document model (the Apple Portable Digital Document model).
Apple did not do that as it would have caused increased commercial conflict with Adobe, Quark and Macromedia at a time when hardcopy production was still the high end of the Apple product portfolio, and so while ColorSync survived TrueType as prosumer and pro solution suffered.
Ironically, XTT's developer did manage at one time to make his primary Tibetan font usable in both Mac and Windows environments -- by somehow combining AAT and OpenType elements within it -- but his considerable effort was then torpedoed, I gather, by some (unannounced, as usual) changes Apple made in font implementation in 10.4.
Deborah Goldsmith gave bad advice on the Unicode mailing list, I'm sorry but it was not sound technically. Dov Isaacs, Adobe's technical quality manager, gave sound advice in saying that Type 1 splines and TrueType splines should not be housed in the selfsame SFNT Spline Font file. I read what the Xenotype developer posted, and Apple bungled as Apple has bungled other important things like supporting a decent international default separation for ColorSync. There is no excuse whatsoever - if Apple cannot use Apple software with Apple defaults to do a decent job then Apple needs to find out whether it is working for Apple customers or is working for itself.
I don't know what might be necessary to make it possible for Mac users to employ OpenType fonts for complex scripts, but I can't believe that this goal is simply beyond the capabilities of Apple's engineers. Nor do I understand why Apple seems to keep, well, stalling on this issue.
The answer lies in the document model, not in the internationalisation model or in the SFNT imaging model. I am not an expert on Indic scripts (I don't speak or write any of them), but as I understand the matter Indic calligraphic scripts are simulated typographically using a feature called insertion that splits one character code into two glyph codes for vowels.
This type of typographic simulation does not pose problems if you are authoring with the aim of archiving and accessing hardcopy, since your audience is not interacting with the character string, but if you are authoring, archiving, and accessing softcopy then simulation methods such as insertion and bidirectionality may pose problems.
Specifically, if in the process of producing your softcopy pagination you loose the source character stream and the mapping of said character stream to the reshaped and reordered glyph stream, then you have to try to synthesise the character stream. And the more complex the reshaping and reordering, the less likely you are to get a successful simulation.
This is the issue between Adobe PDF produced from PostScript and Microsoft XPS which retains as well the source character stream as the mapping of the character stream to the glyph stream. Adobe PDF, by contrast, is basically a viewable graphic of the glyph stream - Adobe PDF does not even retain semantics for reshaping of formal Danish typography.
Hope this helps,
Henrik
References:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0136660.html

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