Easy Mac OS X Lion - Kate Binder [35]
Click Use cover page.
Enter a subject for the fax’s cover page.
Enter any message you want to add to the fax’s cover page.
Click Fax.
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Tip: What Goes Out Can Come In, Too
To receive faxes on your Mac, choose Apple menu, System Preferences and then click Print & Scan. Choose your fax modem from the pick list and click Receive Options. Click the check box labeled Receive faxes on this computer. Then set options for what your Mac is to do when a fax is received.
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Using a Scanner
Your scanner is the way to get pictures inside your Mac, whether you need to copy a document, email a photo, or produce a web-ready image of a flat item you’re selling online. First, install the scanner and its software according to the instructions that came with it. Then you’re ready to get scanning.
Double-click Image Capture in the Applications folder.
Click and drag in the window to select the portion of the image you want to scan. (If you don’t see a preview scan of the image, click Show Details.)
Choose a source type from the Scan Mode pop-up menu, and select a document type from the Kind pop-up menu.
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Note: Sticking to the Safe Side
You should be conservative in selecting the scan area. If you scan a larger area than you need, you can easily trim it when you edit the image in Adobe Photoshop or another program. If you don’t scan enough, you’ll have to rescan the whole image.
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Set the Resolution.
Choose a location for the image file and give it a name.
Click Scan. The image is saved in the selected folder.
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Tip: Making It Better
If you don’t plan to edit your scanned image in an image editor such as Photoshop, you can adjust it using the controls located at the bottom of the dialog box, directly over the Scan button. These options can improve the quality of your scans. Unsharp Mask can sharpen an out-of-focus image, and Descreening removes the pattern you get when you scan printed images from books or magazines. Backlight Correction compensates for bright light behind a photo’s subject, and Dust Removal attempts to remove small specks in the image.
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Adding Fonts
There’s no such thing as a font collection that’s too big. Don’t take that the wrong way—using all the fonts you have in one document is usually a very bad move, design-wise. But having a lot of fonts to choose from when you’re creating graphics or printed documents is a luxury that’s available to anyone with a Mac. Here’s how to install a new font.
Double-click the font’s icon. Font Book starts up and displays the font.
Click Install Font. The font is installed in your home folder’s Library folder.
Drag the Size slider in the Font Book window to preview the font at different sizes.
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Tip: Shopping Time
Where do fonts come from? My favorite font store is myfonts.com, run by the pioneering digital type foundry Bitstream. Not only can you shop from thousands of fonts, ranging from classic to bizarre, you can upload an image of an unidentified font to the site’s WhatTheFont area for an automatic identification.
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Organizing Fonts
If your font collection has been growing, you’ll love the capability to group the installed fonts into collections. Collections keep your fonts organized so you can quickly apply the fonts you’re using for a given project. Mac OS X comes with a few predefined collections, but feel free to create as many collections as you want.
Double-click Font Book in the Applications folder.
Click the + button below the Collection column to create a new collection and then type in a name.
Click All Fonts in the Collection column and drag a font from the Font column into the new collection.
Click a collection name or a font name and click Disable to remove that font from the Font panel. If you see a confirmation dialog box, click Disable again.
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Tip: Putting Fonts Back on the Menu
Disabling a font doesn’t delete it—you can always return to Font Book, select the font from the All Fonts