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From: dorayme on 23 Feb 2010 03:11 In article <saramerriman-760216.07540623022010(a)news.individual.net>, Sara Merriman <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > I know it's bad form replying to my own post, You don't know any such thing. To know is,at the very least, to believe truly. It is not always a bad form. -- dorayme
From: Nick Naym on 23 Feb 2010 13:26 In article saramerriman-BD016A.16300722022010(a)news.individual.net, Sara at saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk wrote on 2/22/10 11:30 AM: > In article <emteedee-38ACA9.18551622022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Mike Dee <emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid> wrote: > >> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >>> Mike Dee at emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid wrote on 2/18/10 6:34 AM: >>>> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >> >> [...] >>>>> Very frustrating. :( >>>> >>>> Well sorry to hear that, Nick. I can only add that it works without >>>> issue for me. But (and possibly a big but), I'm running it on an older >>>> PPC Mac (under Tiger OS 10.4.x) and PDFLab is a pretty old program I >>>> gather. >>> >>> I contacted the developer. He immediately responded, telling me to change a >>> setting in Java Preferences.app, an application I didn't even know I had. >>> That pretty much did the trick (though I haven't run PDFLab through all its >>> paces, so I don't know how well it works overall). >> >> Now that *is* good news, Nick. >> >> You couldn't post the changes you needed to make to the Java >> Preferences.app settings to get PDFLab to work, could you? >> >> It may help others in the same boat (and me when I get to use it on an >> Intel Mac). >> > Oh yes please - it hasn't worked for me for a while either and I used to > find it very handy. Mike, Sara- Sorry for the delay in responding...I've been offline for a variety of reasons, including the fact that I've been hobbled by a misbehaving computer; I'm preoccupied trying to play "catch up" on a lot of other things as well. Anyway, here's the skinny on PDFLab: I blindly followed the developer's instructions, which I didn't quite understand until after the fact. It turns out that PDFLab requires Java 1.4.2 (barely mentioned under "Requirements" in "PDFLab Help"). According to the Java FAQ on Apple's Development page (http://developer.apple.com/java/faq), this version has been "deprecated": "Which version of Java does Mac OS X include? Mac OS X Leopard comes with J2SE 5.0 preinstalled, based on JDK 1.5.0_13_b05. ... Mac OS X Leopard also includes JDK 1.4.2_13 which is deprecated. ..." Evidently, then, for PDFLab to work in Leopard, one needs to make a selection in Java Preferences.app (in Utilities folder), as follows: Java Preferences.app > "General" tab > "Java Applications" (bottom section). Select (i.e., click its checkbox) "J2SE 1.4.2". That's it. FYI NOTE: I'm running OS 10.5.8; PDFLab apparently isn't yet (as of today) compatible with Snow Leopard. See http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/page33/page33.html -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Nick Naym on 23 Feb 2010 13:44 In article saramerriman-760216.07540623022010(a)news.individual.net, Sara Merriman at saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk wrote on 2/23/10 2:54 AM: > In article <saramerriman-BD016A.16300722022010(a)news.individual.net>, > Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> In article <emteedee-38ACA9.18551622022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, >> Mike Dee <emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >>>> Mike Dee at emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid wrote on 2/18/10 6:34 AM: >>>>> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>>>>> Very frustrating. :( >>>>> >>>>> Well sorry to hear that, Nick. I can only add that it works without >>>>> issue for me. But (and possibly a big but), I'm running it on an older >>>>> PPC Mac (under Tiger OS 10.4.x) and PDFLab is a pretty old program I >>>>> gather. >>>> >>>> I contacted the developer. He immediately responded, telling me to change >>>> a >>>> setting in Java Preferences.app, an application I didn't even know I had. >>>> That pretty much did the trick (though I haven't run PDFLab through all >>>> its >>>> paces, so I don't know how well it works overall). >>> >>> Now that *is* good news, Nick. >>> >>> You couldn't post the changes you needed to make to the Java >>> Preferences.app settings to get PDFLab to work, could you? >>> >>> It may help others in the same boat (and me when I get to use it on an >>> Intel Mac). >>> >> Oh yes please - it hasn't worked for me for a while either and I used to >> find it very handy. > > I know it's bad form replying to my own post, but there are a couple of > ideas on this page that may help - I haven't tried them yet: > <http://www.macduck.com/news/macosxhints/2010/january/25/> Hmmm...I wonder if this works, and if the developer is aware of it. (I've just sent him the link to the specific paragraph: http://www.macduck.com/news/macosxhints/2010/january/25/106-re-enable-java-1 42-and-java-15-apps-in-snow-leopard/. I'll let you know what he says.) -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Mike Dee on 23 Feb 2010 20:03 In article <C7A987F7.53AC4%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > Evidently, then, for PDFLab to work in Leopard, one needs to make a > selection in Java Preferences.app (in Utilities folder), as follows: > > Java Preferences.app > "General" tab > "Java Applications" (bottom section). > > Select (i.e., click its checkbox) "J2SE 1.4.2". Many thanks for getting back with this, Nick. It is much appreciated (and archived for whenever I'll be needing it again). Regards. -- dee
From: Mike Dee on 23 Feb 2010 20:06
In article <saramerriman-760216.07540623022010(a)news.individual.net>, Sara Merriman <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > I know it's bad form replying to my own post, but there are a couple of > ideas on this page that may help - I haven't tried them yet: > <http://www.macduck.com/news/macosxhints/2010/january/25/> Thanks for the link, Sara. A bit complex for my tiny old brain, but it may be possible to have PDFLab running on SL with a little work. Regards. -- dee |