I often like to use Microsoft Word to print the large image file, so I can lay the image to full 8.5 x 11 paper size. I can center them and choose how much margins I want to have around images.
This time, I chosen 0 margin for left and right, .5 for top and bottom.
I inserted an image using Insert >> Picture >> From File. The size of images I had were 100KB to 200KB.
I put an image, then I hit "apple p" to print it out, then I deleted the image and do the insert again with different image. When I hit "apple p" to print it out again, it crashes. First time seems to be fine, but not second time.
Since I had 4 image files to print, I've tested 4 times. Every time, it happened except when I inserted small image - 24KB - it didn't crash.
Posted: December 13, 2007 10:37 am by Shino Ito | 0 comments
Tags: Mac, Mac Leopard OS, Microsoft Word 2004, word
Word crashed 4 times today. Each time I was trying to print to the networked Canon printer in our area. It feels as though this is somehow related to Spaces, even though I can't be sure.
I was primarily using Space 1, where my Mail, calendar, and browser are. I switched to Word, and a file on the file server, which took me to Space 2. I had been printing earlier in Space 1. I tried to print the Word document, and the document printed, but Word quit.
Then I tired to print again, same thing.
Later, with a longer document, the document didn't print and Word crashed. Finally the 3rd time I opened the document, I was able to print that file, and another, successfully. It was as though I needed to open the file in a specific manner: move to Space 2, navigate to the file using Space 2, double click on the file. Or something.
Very odd.
Posted: November 13, 2007 4:49 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 4 comments
Tags: Apple Spaces, Mac Leopard OS, Microsoft Word 2004, OS testing
In addition to the oddities of Word and Apple Spaces (see other posting), Word itself has quit on my three times.
I also had an incident with Excel and the file server, but I don't know whether Leopard was to blame. In general, my connection to the file server has been really snappy with Leopard--I'm really happy about how quickly directories come up, and quickly my initial connection to the file server comes up.
The other day, I tried to open an Excel file that someone else had open. "Normally," Excel warns me that the file is open and asks me if I want to open a read-only copy. This time, instead of doing that, it just told me I couldn't open the file at all. When my colleague closed the file, I was able to open it without incident.
Brian checked on Extreme Z, the product we use to make the file server mount as an AppleShare volume, and found no information or setting changes that should have affected this. I'm staying on alert to see if it happens again.
Posted: November 7, 2007 6:18 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 0 comments
Tags: Mac Leopard OS, Microsoft Excel 2004, Microsoft Word 2004, Simmons file server
I just tried to use Spaces. I have two Spaces. I switched from one to the other using F8. I'd seen in the demo that you can drag one apps into another Space before switching to that Space.
I dragged MS Word into the second space, and entered the 2nd space. But my title bar of my Word document then wouldn't let me move the Word document down below the Word toolbars. When I tried to click in the document and edit, some of the document's text spilled over the bottom of Word's document window, and I couldn't edit the document. This is behavior similar to what I experienced several years ago when opening certain documents originally created in Word for Windows.
I tried opening another application to see if Leopard would redraw the screen properly. That didn't work. I quit Word, opened it again in the 2nd space, then opened the document and everything was fine.
I don't think Spaces likes having an open Word doc dragged into a new space through its F8 feature.
Posted: November 1, 2007 12:19 pm by Kimberly Brookes | 0 comments
Tags: Apple Spaces, Mac Leopard OS, Microsoft Word 2004, OS testing
