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Scribe Translations
Date: 21/9/2004
I just thought I'd mention this ongoing offer to everyone, as most people wouldn't know about it. If anyone does a significant amount of translation work for Scribe I give them a license for InScribe for free, as a thankyou for all the effort you put in.

If your interested in doing translation work I've put together some information to help.

Finally, what constitutes a "significant amount"? you ask... well either a new language, or an update of a translation that has fallen into disrepair (i.e. one of: Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, French or Italian).
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Scribe And Attachments
Date: 9/9/2004
There is only one thing I'd really like to fix for the next release of Scribe. Basically some attachments disappear between downloading the message and being displayed in the user interface. I've personally never seen this but it seems to be happening to other people. Anyway if YOU have seen this and your keeping your mail on the server then I'd be interested in getting your help. In this forum post we are discussing the problem and I've left instructions for extracting the problem email in encoded form. This would help me a great deal if I could get an example of a message that breaks Scribe's MIME decoder.

So that I can fix it and we can all be smuggly assured that are attachments are safe again. :)
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Hail
Date: 6/9/2004
Over the weekend we had a bit of a hail storm, it coated everything in a layer of ice. Fortunately not large enough to dint all the cars, but lots of fun for the kids.

It was so cold that there was still pockets of ice lying around in the morning. Maya hasn't seen snow or hail before so I took her out to play after the rain had stopped. For her it was just 'another' new thing, because everything is new for her it wasn't a big deal. But she did learn a few new words: 'snow' and 'hail' after hearing all the adults talk about it. Very cute.
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Windows Printing
Date: 31/8/2004
I've been struggling to work out what is wrong with the printing in Scribe on windows. Each line sometimes is chopped off at the end. And as far as I can tell I'm doing all the right things.

Basically I'm calling GetTextExtentPoint32W to get the size of the string I want to print and then I call ExtTextOutW with ETO_CLIPPED and a rect as big as the size returned by GetTextExtentPoint32W. All of this is of course deep inside Lgi, so I've extracted out a minimal example of what I'm talking about here. It's a Visual C++ 6 project and cpp file that builds an application that exhibits the bug. It will print out a single page, and on WinXP with the printer I have available it chops off the end of the 'y' on the last word.

Am I going crazy? Or is it a bug in my code? Or another windows quirk?
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ARC Rally
Date: 30/8/2004
As I was heading up to the folks place to pick my family up over the weekend I got a geez up close at some of the Australian Rally Championship cars that were driving north on the F3 in full rally dress for the Premier State Rally NSW.

I passed Herridge's STI and one of the Toyota Corolla's cruising along at 100km/h. The noise those things put out is amazing. Just at cruise the sound of the dog gears and the muffler is pretty loud, and I was in a different car... let alone being in the unbaffled cabin.

I would've thought they'd have transport vehicles for the rally cars, but I think they have to drive between stages anyway. So maybe they'd already done some stages.

Well at least the Olympics are over... I've been trying to avoid the unescapable tide of reports about it. Finally we can get back to sport we want to watch... motorsport that is!
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Yahoo Support in i.Scribe/InScribe
Date: 27/8/2004
KennethO posted that Yahoo Pop/Smtp access is broken in Scribe. I've had a look at this and it all seems to be working for me. Is anyone else having difficulty with accessing Yahoo?
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