Computer problems and/or advice 2012

[Lina Hesseling]

Paul, I had the same problem a few weeks ago.
Solved it, but never knew how.

There must be a ghost in my iPad.

Lina.

[Paul T]

Lina,

Maybe it was the Great Goddess Maggi that fixed it?  You know that she sees all and fixes all!!?? 

All hail the Great Goddess Maggi.

[Maggi Young]

I don't think either the Great Goddess (who I like the sound of  better than the Fattest Fairy) or the FF is that powerful really..... she's just a trier! 

[Paul T]

Maggi,

Yes, GG is definitely better than FF.

[Anthony Darby]

ROTFL

[Arda Takan]

left mouse click on a page and hold the control button down, while scrolling the mouse wheel towards you.

Away from you makes the page, text etc  larger, and towards you makes it smaller.   Adjust to suit.

Or you can just press CTRL+0 which will set zoom thingy to default

[Anthony Darby]

How can I adjust printing of documents (using various programmes) so they are not cropped at the right hand edge? My daughter is using a programme called Comic Life and while everything is centred, she loses almost 1 cm from the right hand edge of her page. The paper is correctly inserted into the printer.

[David Pilling]

How can I adjust printing of documents (using various programmes) so they are not cropped at the right hand edge?

Web pages have always been a nightmare to print, Google Chrome seems to be the best bet. Anthony, you say "various programs", so the answer is "various ways".

If you were looking for a single solution, or if everything is getting it wrong, then one might wonder if the paper size set up on the printer driver matches the paper size inserted in the printer.

On Win, Start->Settings->Prints and Faxes-> right click on the printer driver of interest.

Then something like Advanced -> Printing Defaults will let you set the paper size the printer driver defaults to.

Usually you'll hit ctrl-P and get the standard Windows print dialogue when printing, there is usually a button on that 'Preferences' which will let you control the printer settings like page size.

Some software shows you were the printer margins lie on your document - that might be a way of investigating.

[brianw]

Ctrl + and Ctrl - can be used to change font size too. (You can ignore the shift key)
Ctrl+Alt+down arrow is quite fun too. Use Ctrl+Alt+up arrow to reverse. Not tried it in a presentation for upside/down slides yet.

[Paul T]

Brian,

I of course just HAD to try that last one, didn't I.  That is so disconcerting.  It would be an interesting way to "lock" your computer if you didn't want someone else reading your email when you leave your desk..... flip it upside down and wait and see who asks why......so you know who's looking. 

[Anthony Darby]

"Word" is fine and printing photos is fine too. It is just when we use other programmes, the latest being "Comic Life" (http://plasq.com/products/comiclife/win) it cuts off the right hand edge. Maybe I should contact them?

[Paul T]

Anthony,

When printing within comic life, are you given a page setup option?  If so, you may need to change the margin settings in there?  Word and the photo printer may be taking their settings from somewhere else than comic life, so if you can change the page setup within the program it should work.  If there is no page setup function, no idea how you'd go about it.  It has to be inheriting the settings from somewhere, but whether you can modify those if they're stored withing the game I'm not sure.

[Anthony Darby]

Here is their response:
Hello there Anthony,

Thanks for contacting us.

Is it Comic Life 2.2 for Windows version that you are using?

Could you please try exporting out as an image, and then printing that?

File > Export > Export to image(s) - and choose something like PNG @ 300 dpi.

Then try printing out the exported image.

Hope this helps,
Mark | plasq

It did!

[annew]

Computer + shredder = ?
I'm going to weed something instead.

[Palustris]

More of a Photobucket thing really. I uploaded a set of images, and when I then posted them on a Forum I noticed one picture was wrong. So I went to PB, deleted the said picture and uploaded the correct one. I then changed the link to the correct photo. The problem? Well it continues to show the incorrect photo, even though it no longer exists, except in my Recycle Bin. Try as I might I cannot get the correct photo to appear. Anyone had this experience?