Hei Andrus

Andrus wrote:
> Hey, Great to know Erik.  A way to pull a document to pieces and put 
> back together without Adobe software! :-)
> 
> Do the links still work if you split the file using the method of OS X 
> built-in Print?

Yes and no...

> That is, Print with a single page specified, one at a time, then choose 
> the Preview option, and finally save the resulting preview to disk as 
> .pdf?  I suppose Preview kills the URLs?
> 
> Just so those without fancier tools don't feel left out or disabled.

Yes, it also works if you save a multi-page NWP document using 
'Print-to-PDF' and for example selecting "From: page 2 To: page 2". Just 
note that at least in NWP 1.5.x, the page 2 will get the same name as 
the whole document. So to avoid overwriting just put the page number 
after doc name and before the '.pdf'.

Another thing to note here. If you use hidden links  - i.e. have a name 
such as "Louis Armstrong" and then want to insert a link with a 
biography from www.biography.com like this one but hidden underneath the 
name "Louis Armstrong"

http://www.biography.com/people/louis-armstrong-9188912

This link will be saved as a link in NWP in most document formats. But 
if you either use 'Save as PDF' or 'Print to PDF', the link will be 
broken and will not work as a link to that page.

To regain the link into the PDF file with the Louis biography, you can 
then use 'Preview and insert the link to the name "Louis Armstrong" 
again inside the PDF file.

The 'no' is that such hidden links donot work by dragging a single page 
2 with the hidden link into another NWP document. This means that you 
need to write the full webaddress like http://www. - I've just tested 
this out and can't make it work otherwise...

> P.S.  I just got a G4 1.42 GHz MDD (firewire 800) tower with 17" Studio 
> monitor for $100,

That's very, very cheap!!! - Here such a MDD will cost more than 
2500Dkr. (apprx. 470USd) - if it's possible to find one at all...

> and thrown in a 1.25 MHz which has a dead power supply and a 15" Studio 
> monitor.
> So I'm getting quite an upgrade on the cheap, and diverting some 
> hardware from the landfill...
> … I'm in the casual market for a bargain power supply for the second 
> machine— (24 pin connector)

Sad to say it, but I don't think that you will be able to find such a 
new PSU for a MDD - maybe a refurbished one instead. - I burned off my 
own single 1,25ghz/FW400 in July this summer caused by a mains failure 
and tried to find a new PSU or buy another 1,25ghz MDD from any of the 
companies I know about. Noone had such a PSU. Lucily I notified my 
insurance company and told what I've done to solve the problem. The 
insurance company requested the MDD for test and eventually repair or 
replacement with a similar machine. - In one mysterious way or the other 
they succeeded putting hands on a brand new PSU from a 1,42ghz MDD. - It 
took it's time so I first got it back about 3-4 weeks ago, but now it 
also is running like new. - And what better is - the new PSU is far much 
more noiseless than the old one.:-)

So I think it would be easier for you to find another 1,25ghz/FW400 with 
a full functioning PSU and then move the parts from your dead one into 
such another machine - such as memory, harddisks, PCI cards, maybe 
Airport etc. You could also take out the harddisk(s) and use the HD 
frame from the dead one to mount into the new 1,42ghz underneath the DVD 
drive basels. The MDDs can take up to 4 HDs in two frames - two in each.

The bad thing here is that yuu will loose the possibility of booting 
into OS 9.2.2 on a FW800 , if you still need that. MDD/FW800 will only 
run OS 9.2.2 in classic envirement.

If you can, find another MDD of one of these models
- MDD Dual 867mhz/FW400*) **)
- MDD Single 1,0ghz/FW400**)
- MDD Dual 1.0ghz/FW400
- MDD Single 1,25ghz/FW400
- MDD Dual 1,25ghz/FW400

If you find the 1,0ghz single CPU you can just put in the 1,25ghz CPU 
from your dead MDD. RAM, harddisks, graphics card etc. are all 
compatible with any of the models named above.

*) NOTE: The PSU from this one will only fit into the Dual 1,0ghz/FW400 
and the Dual 1,25ghz/FW400. It doesnot fit into the Dual 1,0ghz/FW800 
and Dual 1,25ghz/FW800 models.
**) NOTE2: The 1,25ghz CPU will also fit into these two models and will 
give you more power and performance. Infact the 1,25ghz will also fit 
into the Dual 1,0ghz MDD, but you won't get more power and performance. 
The Dual 1,0ghz is faster than the single 1,25ghz.

Hope you can use these information.
Cheers, Erik Richard

> __________________________________________________
> On 2011 Nov 23, Wed, at 4:38 pm, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
>> Just the other day I discovered a 'feature' in NWP that I've never 
>> before been aware of...
>>
>> Sometimes I insert a single-page PDF file into a NWP document. This 
>> file will then show up as inserted graphics. More times on such a 
>> single-page document I have one or more links (URLs) to webpages. - 
>> And so I also did the other day....
>>
>> While checking if I have written everything correctly I happened to 
>> hover the cursor over one of the links and to my surprise the cursor 
>> suddenly became a 'finger' i.e. an active link?!? - To see what would 
>> happen I just clicked on it and wupti! the webpage corresponding to 
>> the link opened showing both what I've copied to the PDF file as well 
>> as everything else on that webpage. - And what better is - It also 
>> works in the final PDF booklet created as a NWP document and saved 
>> into PDF!
>>
>> Links only work with single-page PDF files and not with multi-page PDF 
>> files. - If you try to insert a multi-page PDF into a NWP file, it is 
>> only the page 1 in the PDF file that is imported... So if you want a 
>> multi-page PDF to be imported into NWP you need to split the PDF file 
>> into single-page PDFs using Acrobat or a similar PDF file converter 
>> application.
>>
>> I use this when I'm creating booklet files for my music library 
>> containing a front page, a small biography of the artist with one or 
>> more links, an album list and then followed by a list of the tracks in 
>> each album. And sometimes I also insert graphics on the pages with the 
>> track lists such as pictures from concerts etc.. So such a booklet can 
>> easily be as large as up to 120 pages for artists with whom I have 
>> many albums.

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