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 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <[log in to unmask]> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~