Thanks Mikie, again! It is the same one I tried to install. It has their toolbar. Its almost impossible to get rid of it once installed. They have made it mandatory to take their seach toolbar with the free ZA. Probably even throw it in with the paid version. Last year you could install by clicking 'skip all offers' but even clicking it installs the search toolbar. I'm running Win XP and need a firewall. Jane

Like I have said before, I have gone to several sites where something I clicked on was automatically opened in Adobe. I think one time I was at Martha Stewarts website and clicked on a "leaf template" for a halloween costume. As soon as I clicked on the link "Leaf Template", It opened up in Adobe where I was able to print it out. I design a website for a local business. They have "Membership Forms" and "Schedules" and other things like that on their site. The problem is, sometimes when you print them out, they cut off in the middle of the page...or just don't line up right. The reason I wanted the documents to open up in Adobe was so that I could control how the document is formated and where the next page should start. I also like that the website address doesn't appear on the page. At one time, I uploaded the documents to the page (so people could download them onto their computer) but some of the people had trouble downloading them onto their computer. (Some of the people that go to the site aren't real...shall I say....computer literate. LOL!) They didn't know how to download, where to have it download to....couldn't remember where they downloaded it to, didn't knoe how to open it once they downloaded it...etc. Anyways, I figured if it opened up in Adobe (on it's own), it would pretty much be "fool proof" (for the user). Since I posted this message, I figured out how to make the documents open up in Adobe. I uploaded the PDF document to my website, when I looked at the file, it came up fine, but when I emailed the URL to someone else to check out, it came up with a blank sheet. Adobe DID open for them when they clicked on the link, but the document came up as a blank page....SO I am now trying to figure that out as well. I swear it's never ending!! LOL! Anyways, THANKS for your help, if you have any other suggestions...I would love to hear them!! Mac

Someone here is having good results with amending clay with 50 percent sand and then topping the area with sandy loam. The nurseryman who runs Laguna Hills Nsy and gave the soils class takes the stock he buys and removes most of the mix around the roots. Then he replaces it in peat moss, perlite, pumice,sand and some charcoal. He would add more sand in the mix he sells bagged but the bags would rip or be too expensive to ship. The charcoal is there because the world's best soils have some charcoal content. A building supply in Costa Mesa sells something called Rick's mix that is sandy loam and decomposed granite for improving clay. I have used the best potting mixes I could buy and watch the plants die off in a year. With the mix from Laguna Hills, it doesn't happen. Now I use a mix of my own soil, sand and the Laguna Hills formula. I have been making charcoal all winter and sifting it to throw out the ash which is alkaline. In the old days the nurseries planted in Sandy loam and sold bareroot. No one amended the holes or they planted high in large mounds or raised beds if drainage was poor. Now the wholesalers who planted in real soil are being edged out by those who plant in composted wood. The plants grow fast and are lighter to ship but eventually the breakdown of the planting material kills the plant. You can slow the process by letting the mix dry out almost completely before watering again, but it stresses the plants, especially in our warm climate. In the old days, a nursery could water every day with no root problems at all. A nursery could keep their stock for years and water every day and feed once a month until it sold. Now it's a race to sell the plant before the mix degrades and the roots die. The nurseries have to move their stock quick before then. Even if you plant it in good soil, the plant might not make it to five years because the mix around the trunk has become poisonous to the plant. Some plants grow fast enough to get roots out beyond into good soil. Arborists use augers to drill out holes around the trunk and backfill with sand to get the oxygen into the toxic area. You can also dig into one side and replace with 100 percent soil and six months later do the other side. The formula is stay away from three times the diameter of the trunk when removing roots. That was the formula for moving plants sold in soil wrapped with burlap. Any plant you fix needs to be shaded for two weeks. You can also help them by spraying the leaves with 1 gallon water 1 oz Karo syrup 1 oz seaweed 1 oz fish fertilizer a little wetting agent I hope this helps anyone trying to save a plant. I think it's rotten that plants are being sold that they know will have problems later on. People think it's their fault. The landscape reflects the trend towards only plants that can overcome the crappy potting mix and we all get taught wrongly to add this stuff to the soil at planting time.

I really don't know much about the subject but from what I understand and perhaps it may be oversimplifying the concept but I think a glyph is a subset of what most of us would call a font. Kind of like in books when they use a big, fancy letter at the beginning of a chapter. A "fancy" letter "I" at the beginning of this paragraph would be a glyph. Obviously you need software to create glyphs but I'm not sure about using them in, say, a Word document. You might be better off asking in one of the forums dedicated to typography. As for buying used software, there's nothing wrong with it per se but this is one of the times you really, really need to be able to trust the seller. Most licensing agreements are very complex and I have no idea if Adobe even allows their software to be resold. You should also assume that you will not get any support from Adobe should something go wrong. I believe that Adobe does offer an monthly subscription to most of their software so you can play around with the latest, greatest version of whatever you'd like to use at a minimum upfront cost.