http://editor.unrealblogs.com Topics related to editing or writing documents & Web sites Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:29:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After two weeks of procrastination, I finally sat down and got my Elance.com profile up and running on my account. The number of projects for editing and proofreading is fairly low, especially when considering how many service providers there are for that subcategory. It seems that the number of open ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/06/finally-finished-my-elancecom-profile-and-submitted-a-bid/ This Nuance (formerly ScanSoft) PDF Professional 4 package will not properly activate when running under Windows Vista—unless a slight change is made to Vista. The Data Execution Prevention (DEP) security feature in Vista is incompatible with some (or all) of the executables in PDF Converter Professional 4 Fortunately, the Vista system ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/06/scansoft-nuance-pdf-professional-4-bug-workaround/ One major area of incompatibility with OOo Writer and MS Word is converting a Writer frame (usually enclosing a picture and a caption) to Word. What happens is that the caption's formatting may have its indentation altered. Such a OOo Writer frame with an enclosed caption appears as below: After converted by ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/03/ooo-writer-frame-captions-do-not-convert-well-to-word/ There are a number of incompatibilities between Writer and Word that show up after one is converted to the other. Most conversions to/from Writer and Word are seemingly flawless, whereas some conversions are horribly botched. The "current" OOoAuthors Migration Guide was originally written for version 1 of OOo Writer and MS ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/03/ooo-writer-to-ms-word-conversion-notes/ (1) Copyedited. (2) As with Chapter 3, an index was appended to the back so that the indexing could be checked. There were two upper/lowercase errors. (3) Numerous character style changes made. (4) Some minor technical errors. This chapter should be ready to publish. As in Chapter 3, an alphabetical chapter index ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/02/oooauthors-draw-guide-ch4-changing-object-attributes/ This firm--EditFast--claims to have over 1200 editors, proofreaders, and indexers in its stable. Its owner--Robert Kidd--has a very brief public Linked-In profile. Robert appears to be **VERY** selective in his Linked-In connections because as of this date, 2 March 2008, he still doesn't have any! Conducting a Google search with the ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/02/editfast/ If you ever harbor any doubts whether a business is legit or an ongoing concern, one way to quickly discover if anybody had bad dealings with the concern would be to conduct a simple Web search. You could Google such entries as the firm's name followed by one or both ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/02/quick-and-dirty-honesty-check-of-a-business-any-business/ (1) Copyedited. (2) Footnotes need to be repaired. They initially were all set to #1 and still are. Is this a bug with my version or not??? (3) Some of the subgraphics were not properly aligned in some figures. These should be rechecked. One figure has two #1 subgraphics instead ... http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/01/write-a-post-2/ This WordPress weblog deals primarily with technical editing and writing, plus related topics. Topics include technical documentation, open-source and proprietary software, copyediting (including proofreading), miscellaneous editing topics (layout, indexing, etc.), and occasional rants and raves. http://editor.unrealblogs.com/2008/03/01/hello-world/