How old is it? I am not sure what your iMac has for a motherboard battery, but you might check on it.

I don't know if anyone knows anything about Microsoft Publisher, but...

My boss wants me to increase the size of a brochure designed at 8.5 x 14 to be 11 x 17. Is there any way to do that without basically redesigning the whole thing at a larger size?

We have this DLL, but not the sourcecode for it. The DLL does one thing - it has a function that takes a password and userID and returns the encrypted version of the password. (It was written to be used by VB, VBA, Access, etc.)

How hard would it be to write a simple command-line program (in, say, C) that would take two arguments, call the function in the DLL and return the result?

My boss wants me to increase the size of a brochure designed at 8.5 x 14 to be 11 x 17. Is there any way to do that without basically redesigning the whole thing at a larger size?

The only way I can think of to do it without actually manipulating the text or images would be to to export each page of the document as an eps file, and then importing those files into the new document, resizing the entire page to fit as you bring it in. The thing is, I doubt very much if Publisher can do either the export or the import. PageMaker, or Quark, or InDesign might, but even then I'm not sure.

eta: Actually, trying to expand 8.5 x 14 to 11 x 17 will just make funny looking pages anyway. The proportions are different.

You might be able to convert it into a pdf, open that in photoshop and convert it into an eps, and then import it into the new document, resizing etc. But it would probaby be easier to just relay the whole thing out.

YEah- That is what I am doing. It is just annoying because he wants it in an hour (what is when the printer is coming to pick it up. I think he thought it would be easy.

I'm also a little annoyed because everyone is somehow implying that my design was bad because there was too much information. I mean, I agree that it needed more white space, but I was given the amount of information AND the size requirements and I went for it. I, in fact, kept saying it was too much and did they want to cut any information. And now the big boss thinks I am a bad designer (I just overheard her tell my other boss that she didn't understand why I had things so smushed up and that it looked awful). Anyhow this isn't technology, but not a good day.

Help! My cat lay down on the edgoe of my keyboard and now my desktop uis oriented with what should be the lefthandside facing down. It's like making me sick to look at and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it back to the normal orienation!!

Ctl-Alt-Arrow keys?

or If you're running XP, right click on your desktop and graphics options>graphics properties should pop up, and that's where you can rotate your display.

Thanks. I'll remember that for next time.

I wound up calling Dell. It's so difficult to know what to call problems like this. (I bet people who have average sized dogs don't have this sort of problem.)

Of course, the cat is now sleeping on the other end of the table. (Brat.)

Okay...so, my office's link with the UK is down, which means no corporate email. Internet traffic is being rerouted, but is still not at 100%. I can get to most sites ok if I stick to IE -- Firefox is giving me nothing but timeout errors.

Gmail is the one stickler. If I load it in Firefox, I get nothing but a blank page. If I load it in IE, I get a zillion tiny popups asking me if I want to run or save "firefoxhtml" (no dot). If I try to run them, Firefox opens up a teeny little window in the corner, which proceeds to do nothing. If I save...no luck. If I cancel, IE hangs the same way Firefox does.

(1) - WTF?

(2) - How can I make this stop??