One day the little Nisus man decided to start up a brand new life making 
some really new and wonderful documents for it's owner. He decided to 
help his owner making a lot of lists with all his music files - i.e. 
those that he has ripped from his old LP recordings. He also decided to 
make all those documents look nice both with columns, paragraphs and 
pictures inline in the body text paragraphs.

So he made his owner go to the web and find pictures of the certain 
artists. These pictures should of course be such that they partly 
represent the artist in his current state, but also - very much indeed - 
be old pictures that tell a lot of the artist's life.

The little Nisus man encouraged the owner to find about 40-50 pictures 
of each artist - or group/band, if it was such one that should be 
listed. The owner then edited and corrected the pictures in Photoshop 
CS2. The owner made this work rather fast - until the little Nisus man 
made him think that just editing wasn't that good... What about sizes he 
asked the owner? - Eeh? - yes, what, why? ...Well, the little Nisus man 
then told the owner that it was a real good idea to put in the sizes 
after the name of each picture, then it would be easy to see and to 
decide which picture would fit where...

The owner thought that this was a very bright idea, so he began to write 
in the measurement that Photoshop gave him after each resizing, so now 
he should be happy because he now easily could see which picture would 
fit downward the page.

The little Nisus man got very upset about this... You stupid man, you 
can't judge how many centimeters or points are left at the buttom of my 
page 14! - But I can help you. - So the little Nisus man called upon his 
good friend - the Free Ruler. He told him to have both his rulers open 
and locked, so that the owner could just move around with the rulers by 
using the arrow keys...

The owner was a bit frustrated at first, because he couldn't really see 
what he should use the little Nisus man's friend for. Oh dear! you are 
so stupid, the little Nisus man said, - why don't you just move my 
friend Free Ruler around to the buttom stroke of the underline 
characters and then look at the measurements to see how much is left 
down to the buttom margen? - ...Well, the owner said, - can I be certain 
that these measurings are correctly? - Indeed you can, said the little 
Nisus man. You know what - My friend Free Ruler is so smart that he can 
make himself align to the size and percentual setup of even a big, big 
monitor - or a small one, if you could use that.

So you see, my friend Free Ruler is dynamic, the little Nisus man said. 
- And as long as you have set me to fit 100% - not 125% or any other 
zooming factor. And if you didn't know, I'm also dynamic on a monitor, 
so the larger monitor, the larger page you will get, and my friend Free 
Ruler also grows with me, so we grow together.

You see, now my owner has learned to use both me and my friend and he is 
now able to make just wonderful documents with bodytext, columns, 
paragraphs, tables, solored background and headers and much, much more. 
And he is now so glad - by near lucky - that he sometimes spend most of 
the nights until morning making those documents using my friend Free 
Ruler and me. And I can tell you that I never get tired just helping him 
making all these documents.... OK, I might be a bit tired and slow when 
he insists making very, very large and heavy documents with many 
pictures. But he is always kind with me when I have finished my work. 
Then he always does me the favor of saving me into a PDF file, so he 
doesn't have to open me each and every time he wants to find one of his 
favorit tunes with for example Gene Autry or Bob Wills from a radioshow 
in 1935.

So me and my friend Free Ruler do indeed make him a very happy man, and 
we are glad to be some of his best friends now.

Cheers, The little Nisus man & his friend Free Ruler
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Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <[log in to unmask]>
NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com
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