Printing from Open Office

4/04/2008

Had some trouble printing from Open Office Writer (an open-source word processor). Didn’t seem to matter what setting I changed, it didn’t fit on the page properly.

I even contacted Canon who emailed me some steps to follow. It was around then that I figured out it was printing fine from other applications, just not from Open Office!

Fortunately, Open Office lets you “Save as a PDF” – so that’s my temporary solution… Save the document as a PDF, and then print that.

Hopefully the next update will fix that little bug.

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The end of the line

2/04/2008

I was playing around in Aptana (a code editor) and was desperately trying to get the cursor to the end of the line. In Windows, pressing then End key does that (and Ctrl + End takes you to the end of the document).

Not in OSX though. 

I tried Command + End, Control + End, Option, Shift, and just about everything else I could think of. 

The trick?

Command + Right Arrow!

And obviously (once you know that) Command +  Left Arrow takes you to the start of the line.

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I found a screensaver!

19/03/2008

Clock screensaver screenshotJust a quick follow up post to yesterday’s gripe about not being able to find any software for OSX Jaguar (10.2) – I found a screensaver!

It simply displays this big retro-style digital clock on the screen.

Yeah, I know, it’s not much. But at least it works on Jaguar!

I’ll post if I find anything more interesting…

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