Border Art, is it possible in Pages?

I have seen with the help of the User guide how to add basic lines or a set of 'Photo Frame' borders to text boxes, but is it possible to add border art more than just these basic lines?
I was thinking of small gif images of stars, flowers, crosses, shapes, wavy lines etc.

Searches in the pdf or the help section of pages does not seem to mention it at all, it does not even seem to have been mentioned here on the forum before. Lots of reference to clip art though, so may be it is done some how with small clipart images, but I cnat see how at the moment.

Neil

Mac Pro 3.0Ghz 10Gb RAM 4 x 1Tb HD's, Mac OS X (10.5.6), FreeNAS servers and Other Windoze and Linux machines

Posted on Aug 2, 2009 3:00 AM

41 replies

Aug 6, 2009 3:29 AM in response to Neil Paisnel

Neil,

You have said that you do not want to do it, but really it is worth doing the re-install, which doesn't take long. Backing up may take longer.

The latest Leopard upgrade, OSX 10.5.8, is out now so it is good timing.

You may see a distinct improvement with Snow Leopard, but that is still at least 6 weeks away and you would not want to upgrade from a troubled Leopard to the new system without cleaning up first anyway.

Have a look at DiskWarrior which is a priceless tech tool for cleaning up your system. Letting DW run over your machine regularly seems to be as good as a sponge bath by Mother Teresa.

Peter

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Aug 6, 2009 1:01 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Backing up of data on this machine wold not be an issue. I have 4 HDD's internal plus two more in the attic on a FreeNAS box.
The internal drives:
500Gb, Boot and OS + 1 Admin User home folder
1Tb disk, User home folders
1Tb disk, Import data drive (Original photos and music (FLAC format) plus video edit scratch disk) This is where I store all data on a permanent basis before allowing iTune/Aperture/iPhoto to import in to their own packages
1Tb disk, Time Machine, backing up Boot and Home folders disks

The NAS box in the attic has two 1.5 Tb drives. One of these receives data from the Mac via Chronosync on a nightly backup schedule, backing up Home folders drive and the Import Data drive. The second 1.5Tb in the FreeNAS box uses a local RSYNC internally to mirror the data on the first drive to the second. Weekly this backups up via SSh to a remote box at my fathers house with a single 1.5Tb drive.
None of these machines are on UPS, and all only have basic surge protection...really must look at this soon.
Call me paranoid, but i have a lot of music and pictures stored here and do not want to risk loosing them

As for the re-install, I did several when I first got the machine, just to be familiar with the procedure, for when the time eventually came to do it for real, so not worried about that issue, just the thought of having to do it. Thankfully I have kept all dmg's of all software that I have downloaded and purchased, so re installing won't be a problem.

Just one quesion about Apple Mail. Where does it store all its data, IE e-mail account details, and folders? Within the Home folder or on the Boot disk somewhere.

Aug 6, 2009 6:21 PM in response to Neil Paisnel

IMHO Mail has an unnecessarily complex storage method, not everything neatly combined like some mail clients.

Apple recommends the following:

*To archive a mailbox:*

Select one or more mailboxes to archive.

+Shift-click to select mailboxes that are next to each other in the list, or Command-click to select mailboxes that are not next to one another.+

+Choose Mailbox > Archive Mailbox, or choose Archive Mailbox from the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear) at the bottom of the sidebar.+

+Choose a folder or create a new folder where you want to store the archives, and then click Choose.+

+Mail archives the mailboxes as .mbox packages. If you’ve already archived a mailbox, Mail does not overwrite the existing file but appends a number to the filename to create a new version of it.+

+If you need to recover messages, you can import an archived .mbox file as ‘Mail for Mac OS X.”+

Normally for a backup you would make a mountable *Carbon Copy* of your whole system from which you can then reimport settings and mail etc as if it was a virtual version of your computer before the reinstall.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7032/carbon-copy-cloner (free)

You can compress the archive so it is not as large as the original.

Peter

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Aug 9, 2009 2:10 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Already have CC, and use it occasionally.

When you talk about Archiving the mailbox, does that archive the settings or just the old messages. I want to save all the mail account settings (POP/IMAP servers, usernames, passwords etc) so I do not have to set them all up again

Neil

Aug 9, 2009 2:29 PM in response to Neil Paisnel

With the Carbon Copy you get the lot, not sure with Apple's archive method.

Like I said it is unnecessarily complex and user unfriendly.

Try it and see. The Carbon Copy will always be insurance against Apple's gotchas!

Peter

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Aug 9, 2009 2:39 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

But what am I making a Carbon Copy Clone of? where are the Mail prefes files etc stored?

Aug 9, 2009 2:48 PM in response to Neil Paisnel

The Carbon Copy clone is of your entire system/hard drive minus whatever you choose to not include.

Read up the details along with the software (free):

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7032/carbon-copy-cloner

Peter

Neil Paisnel Author

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Aug 9, 2009 3:08 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Yes, I understand how CCC works I use it weekly to make a copy of my boot HDD, but if I do a re install, then restore the whole drive back again from the CCC clone, then I may as well not have done the re install in the first place.
What I wanted to find out was what actual files/packages I need to backup to backup JUST the mail app.

I have now posted this question about which files in the mail app store the details of the accounts under the Mail section of the forum

Will see if I get any joy there

Cheers

Neil

Aug 9, 2009 3:14 PM in response to Neil Paisnel

Neil,

You mount the CCC copy and use the import function in Mail to get what you want.

Like I said before the archive is like a virtual copy of your Mac as it used to be.

Peter

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Aug 9, 2009 3:23 PM in response to Neil Paisnel

got it

The folder home/Library/Mail
The file home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Mail.plist

cheers

Neil Paisnel Author

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Aug 9, 2009 3:32 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Neil,

You mount the CCC copy and use the import function in Mail to get what you want.

Yes, but you have to know what to import, which files to copy from the archive.

Now I do know...the plist file.

I just tried to archive a mail box and then import, back into mail again, but that is not working. I select the archived mbox file and it starts trying to import, then fail saying it is not a valid mbox file.

Anyway. had enough of this machine for tonight

Neil

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