![]() Panther improved Preview by leaps and bounds, which is especially fortunate given the state of Adobe Reader (see also MDJ 2003.12.31). As a result, some of TidBITS’s new Take Control eBooks are created using Word on Windows the rest have their PDF richness added by hand. Microsoft Word is probably the closest tool to FrameMaker on the Mac, but, unlike its Windows counterpart, it cannot create these rich PDFs. Number one on my list of FrameMaker likes is that it can create PDFs with clickable links, bookmarks, and other meta-data. Though there are several alternatives on Windows, I know of no equivalent Mac programs. The reason I care about FrameMaker is not so much that I like it, as that I like what it can do. Thankfully, FrameMaker, which has always been reliable, still works in Classic with the same old redraw bugs and ancient interface. The latest version isn’t very impressive and doesn’t run on Macs. PageMaker finally is dead, and FrameMaker, though not dead, seems to be even closer than usual. When you uncheck “Honor Habeas headers,” SpamSieve will treat these messages like all others, which should enable it to catch this latest raft of spam. Alas, this no longer seems to be a strong deterrent, and spammers have started including these headers in their messages in order to get through the filters. ![]() Why? It used to be a very good indication that the message was good, since Habeas has promised to sue anyone who includes Habeas’s haiku in a spam message. Please report use of thisīy default, when SpamSieve sees this text in a message, it assumes that the message is not spam. X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) The users can then include the following text in their e-mails: Habeas is a service that licenses a haiku to users who agree not to send spam e-mails. To help SpamSieve catch the spam that is circulating right now, I recommend that everyone choose Preferences… from the SpamSieve menu and uncheck the “Honor Habeas headers” checkbox. Changing the application back to the one whose creator code tags the file does not delete these resources. I had always thought that Launch Services stored these preferences in the ~/Library/ tree, but it turns out that choosing an application to open a file adds ‘icns’ and ‘usro’ resources to the file (and leaves the creator code intact). It turns out that Mac OS X still needed a creator mechanism by which individual documents could be opened by specific applications, so this information is stored in the resource fork of the file (of all places, since Apple is discouraging use of the resource fork), rather than simply in a creator code. He also talks a bit about his contributions to the original Mac OS and how they translated to Mac OS X. iFile respects your directory structures and never modifies anything directly, in contrast to iPhoto, which copies images into its own directory hierarchy. For example, the user can drag in the Pictures folder and be able to browse all the images, create collections, etc., without actually copying any files or moving any data. IFile tracks any changes to the contents of the folders and automatically updates the database as required. Adam Engst interviews Bruce Horn, who’s been working on a smart Finder-like browser called iFile:
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