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Problems with Works word processor
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:38 am
by Bobtheduck
My works word processor keeps misrepresenting how many pages I have... I am half affraid to save it when it is like this, because it is reporting my book to only have 60 or 70 pages... The worst thing is that it has been "fixing" itself and reporting what I thought was the correct page number, and it said I finished 2 more pages (from 115 to 117) but now it says 115, even when I scroll to the bottom... There's not way for me to know what was lost, if anything, but this is really annoying.
XP
1 GHz Celeron
Newest Updates
256 M ram
That's all I can think of that would be relevante... I've done virus scans... Nothing shows up... I'm doinga spyware scan now, but Works has never done this to me before...
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:22 am
by Saint Kevin
It's probably just do to the fact that Works sucks! There are a lot of little things I don't like about Works, but especially the fact that Microsoft Word is the standard for word processed documents, and that Works won't read them. Also, the formatting is pretty weird and just has a lot of things in it that bug me.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:52 am
by ThaKladd
try to copy the text in to a new document
mark the text
ctrl + c
ctrl + n
ctrl + v
then put the page number to the footer
if it's still wrong then it is maybe something wrong with the page formatting. Check if the "special first page" is marked in file -> page format -> setup/layout
(I have the norwegian version, I dont know if I translated it right, but I hope you find it)
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:21 am
by glitch1501
i would save as
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:25 am
by inkhana
If it works anything like the Works I use (although mine is a bit antiquated) the page count is generally something to be ignored, since it flickers around for me just like it does for you. I use Works for nostalgia's sake, but for accuracy, I'd move the document to another word processor. I doubt you actually lost anything (thank goodness), but Works does apparently have problems keeping straight how many pages there are in a document.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 7:13 pm
by madphilb
Open Office is free and works pretty well.... might be a good choice if you want to "move up" in the world from Works.... I do have to say that I've not used it for large documents as of yet, so I can't say how it works for something like a book.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:14 pm
by Saint Kevin
Thanks phil
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:12 am
by Bobtheduck
madphilb wrote:Open Office is free and works pretty well.... might be a good choice if you want to "move up" in the world from Works.... I do have to say that I've not used it for large documents as of yet, so I can't say how it works for something like a book.
I may do that, because I need to embed a couple of the fonts... Do you know if Edwardian is a public domain (royalty free) font? I used it for chapter titles, but I'll have to change it if it's not public domain, so a suggestion of a public domain font that looks all cursivey would be appreciated. Other than that, I just use Times New Roman, but I don't know for sure whether caféoress can handle unicode fonts, so I want to embed the font in my PDF... I guess that would be done on the PDF maker and not the word processor?
Also, anyone know if I can make custom fonts on Illustrator or something? My college group leader has illustrator, and if he gets back in time, I'd like to make a font for Vinkan. I figure illustrator because I'd make them vector to begin with. That may be a bit too advanced, though. I've never met anyone that made their own fonts, particularly one of a syllabary rather than an alphabet (or, more accurately, a combined alphabet like han gul, though limited to short syllables)
PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:16 am
by SwordSkill
Bobtheduck wrote:Also, anyone know if I can make custom fonts on Illustrator or something? My college group leader has illustrator, and if he gets back in time, I'd like to make a font for Vinkan. I figure illustrator because I'd make them vector to begin with. That may be a bit too advanced, though. I've never met anyone that made their own fonts, particularly one of a syllabary rather than an alphabet (or, more accurately, a combined alphabet like han gul, though limited to short syllables)
Yup, you could use Illustrator to make your own fonts, though I confess I haven't tried it myself. ^^;; Anyway, here's a tip from a font site I regularly go to about making your own fonts.
Q:How do you make your fonts?
A:All the fonts start as an idea in a sketchbook. When I've decided that I have a design that I like, I use those sketches as a guide to create each character one at a time in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW. Once I've got the whole font designed, I export them as a TTF file, and open that in Fontographer. I then fix everything up, adjust the spacing and kerning, make bold and italic sets, and save the final versions.