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Content release dates - MRH issue 5 - Jan/Feb 2010
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Rome wasn't built in a day - and neither is Model Railroad Hobbyist with its many versions and bonus downloads.
Here's the expected release dates for everything related to issue 5:
- Standard Edition - January 4, 2010
- Embedded Edition - January 4, 2010
- Online Edition - January 6, 2010
- Printer-Friendly Edition - January 6, 2010
- Bonus downloads - January 8, 2010
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Scale Converter not working on MAC Intel Mini OS X 10.4
I installed Adobe Air but I get nothing when I double click the SWF extracted from the ZIP which downloaded.
I hacked around and see that maybe the Safari should have run the zip instead of downloading it.
Also SWF is defaulting to open with Illustrator CS.
Can you help me or can I help you ?
Otherwise I like MRH !
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Lee T Davy
High Speed Enthusiast at almost 200 mph
Click the Scale Converter.exe file
When you unzipped wasn't there a ScaleConvert.air file?
Extract and double click this file.
The Adobe AIR installer program should then start up and notify you that ScaleConverter.air is an Adobe AIR application signed by Model Railroad Hobbyist (or perhaps Model Trains Video - I can't remember which, MTV is the parent company).
The installer should now create and executable image for you named something like ScaleConverter.exe. Double-click this program to run the converter. Since ScaleConverter.exe is an executable file browsers should have nothing to do with the operation of this program.
The default installation directory (at least on a PC) is
<drive letter>:\ProgramFiles\MRH\ScaleConverter
Inside this directory you should see the following files (and perhaps some others)
If the installer didn't do so you might want to create a 'shortcut' to the 'Scale Converter.exe' file on your desktop. Double click on Scale Converter.exe (or it's shortcut) to run the scale conversion utility program.
The .swf file is sucked in by the AIR executable but is not directly executable itself.
Hope this helps,
Charlie Comstock
Superintendent of nearly everything
On a Mac it works a little different
Charlie:
On a Mac, it works a little different from what you describe since Macs don't know anything about exe files or a Program files directory.
I'll see if I can document the steps on our office Mac so we get the right version of the steps for Macs.
Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine
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Joe, I have the identical set
Joe, I have the identical set up at home (10.4 on a mini). I can run through it this weekend if you cannot.
You're on!
Okay Scarp, you're elected!
Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine
Read my blog
Lee,
Lee,
it would help knowing what web application you were trying, but here's my findings. Note that I did this on a Intel mac mini running 10.4.11.
Scale Converter instructions for Tiger
Do make sure your computer is updated, as well as your browser. Note that I only got it to work right in Safari, Firefox doesn't seem to handle the download correctly (both Firefox 2.0 and 3.6).