Monthly Archives: July 2010

Postcards

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Jim

A few days ago, I started working on the announcement postcards for the Hartnell show. I’ve had good luck with Modern Postcard in the past, so I decided to use them again. When I took a look at their website, … Continue reading →

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Moving the prints to the gallery

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Jim

Yesterday, I signed the prints, put them in the transport case I had purchased from Archival Methods, and took them over to Hartnell. Eric had already received the plex, and had arranged it on the gallery floor as he figured … Continue reading →

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Office 2010 and Acrobat: a gotcha

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Jim

After I installed Office 2010, I noticed that the Acrobat ribbon was missing. I went to the Adobe website and learned the story. It seems that in versions of Acrobat 9 before 9.3, the Acrobat ribbon didn’t work right with … Continue reading →

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The Office 2010 font problem: Microsoft Support

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Jim

I told you all in a previous post that my experience with Microsoft support on what turned out to be a font problem with Office 2010 was abysmal. I promised to spare you details then, and I won’t rehash that … Continue reading →

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Office 2010 crashes: why’d they happen?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Jim

In previous posts, I reported that upon upgrading from Office 2007 to Office 2010, corrupted some fonts caused Outlook and Word to crash. There are a couple of possibilities here. Maybe the fonts were fine before the upgrade, and somehow … Continue reading →

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Another corrupted font, and a mystery

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Jim

Just when I thought the Office 2010 font wars were over, a new battle broke out. I got an e-mail with a Word attachment that crashed Word 2010. I brought it up in Word on a computer that had only … Continue reading →

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A failed Office 2010 upgrade, and a fix

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Jim

Those of you who regularly read this blog know that I’m a heat seeker: somebody who gets involved in technology before it is well tested and debugged. I don’t do beta tests, but I’m usually near the front of the … Continue reading →

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Wall labels

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Jim

I talked to Eric the other day about the wall labels for the Hartnell exhibition. He said he’d be happy to format and print the labels; all he needed from me was a Word file with the titles and dates. … Continue reading →

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Printing the show

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Jim

Within a few months of starting to use Lightroom, I was using it for all my printing. The Hartnell show is no exception. Printing from Lightroom has many advantages over printing directly from Photoshop. Parametrically specifying the margins means you … Continue reading →

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QWERTY and cameras

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Jim

The standard typewriter keyboard was designed in the 1870s to minimize jams. The key layout had the unfortunate side effect of slowing down typists compared to alternative schemes. None of the alternative layouts are popular today, in spite of their … Continue reading →

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