Recent content by jason.sellers

Using Toast 7, select the Mac and PC option on the left, when you click 'more' it gives you the option of dragging or pasting an icon over the disc icon. There are two sets of checkboxes for your files, (over on the right side of the toast window), you can select whic files are visible on a mac...

Back to the problem of fonts in Microsoft Office, if you find, then delete 'FontCacheTool', it stops Microsoft office from finding and reporting on the 'so-called' corrupt fonts. It should stop it from 'checking' your fonts when the application starts up too and it won't be constantly checking...

You can use toast to make a disc image of your film on DVD, (not commercially protected) and then burn from your image to a new disc. It will also let you mount the disc image and it acts just like you have put an original disc in. For navigating through documents and apps, use Exposé, (in the...

Holding the power button until it shuts down, then restarting whilst holding either the ALT key, (lets you choose your startup volume), or SHIFT, (starts up in safe mode, should help you out.

It sounds like you have the screen font but a corrupt postscript font. If your using Illustrator or inDesign, outline your fonts before outputting the pdf and they will all be vector artwork and print just fine.

Dear old Micros**t can't even answer this one! If you have a problem in word or excel, where you are told you have corrupt fonts, (they aren't, it's a microsoft issue), simply delete FontCacheTool from your machine, (use Apple–F to find it) It's part of the office package, so won't affect...

It looks like you'll have to do a batch rename on the files and save any further files with the extension on. It's the file properties that it's picked up from being on a PC that causes the problem. If you archive the indesign files in a zip, hqx or sit file on the server, when you retrieve...

Have you tried ?Ollies Tab"? http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12809 It allows you to have a button at the top for creating a new empty tab.

Just a couple of things that may help, have you installed the regular updates and security updates? If so, (or indeed if not), then regularly fixing the permissions on the volume through disk utility may help improve things. Too many fonts installed can slow a system down, as can placing too...