Design philosophy: all information in this web site should be accessible to the intended audience regardless of platform, browser, or size of screen. Graphics are kept to a minimum to reduce download times. If you see a frame or an animated GIF, feel free to flame me mercilessly.

This site uses fully compliant cascading style sheets (CSS). Older browsers should display text in their default fonts, while more recent browsers will all display fully formatted text. (However, the styles sheets will look best viewed in Internet Explorer 4.0 or above.) The site also complies with major accessibility standards.

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The base font for this page is Trebuchet MS, a free font from Microsoft designed for on-screen readability at small point sizes. The headlines are 32 pt Times bold italic, combining elegance, classical proportions, and compactness.

The logo is variation on the original logo from Aldus PageMaker and depicts Aldus Manutius, a student of Johannes Gutenberg and inventor of italics. This is to echo the roots of desktop publishing, both in the 1450s and the 1980s. The logo uses Courier from ITC to evoke the feel of metal type and Poetica from Adobe Systems to evoke the era of hand lettering.

Made on a Macintosh using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia DreamWeaver.

Fixing the "Rainbow Bridge" error

When I start PageMaker, I get the error "Could not start Rainbow Bridge ... Error 30517 ... Continue ... 9101:30517. What the ...?

According to this document on Adobe's website:

http://pagemakersupport.adobe.com/adobeknowbase/root/public/pm34ba.htm?DREID=7204

"Rainbow Bridge is a component of PageMaker 6.0x that enables PageMaker 6.0x to access Color Management Software, and is one of the first components PageMaker loads during startup. Ensuring there is enough memory available to start PageMaker and that PageMaker, one or more of PageMaker's components, the system, or the hard disk are not damaged, enables PageMaker to load Rainbow Bridge as expected."

Other causes, of course, include standard troubleshooting techniques for PageMaker and for your operating system. The error means it cannot load PageMaker's color management system, so it, your document, PageMaker, the OS, your hard disk, etc., may be damaged.

"Rainbow Bridge," by the way, refers to the "bridge" spanning the gap between the two color realms, not to the bridge between Asgard and Midgard that Heimdall watches vigilantly.

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