Using the Mac Scrapbook in PageMaker

If you have multiple items from PM that you copy into your scrapbook and
want
them back into PM they come back in differently. If you PLACE them from
scrapbook (file/place or command D) you'll end up with all of the items
joined together as a .pict which is great for stuff like sunken caps you
want
to text wrap.


If you paste from scrapbook back into PM, them multiple items come back in
as multiple items.


Below is part of Ken's message to me and the steps to placing from scrapbook
into PageMakr 4.0.


Let me know (or better yet Ken if you don't understand)....


To use the Scrapbook to PLACE: Here's the method Ken uses, with 100%
success:


1. Select File/Place


2. Use the Place dialog box to open your System Folder (if you don't know
how to do this, you should!)


3. Scroll through the file list in your System Folder until you find the
Scrapbook File


4. Double click on the Scrapbook File


5. You will be returned to your PM document. Your cursor will change to
something that looks to me like a hypodermic needle, with a number on
it. The number represents the number of items in the scrapbook. Each
time
you click the mouse, another item from the Scrapbook will be placed
into your document. To stop placing things before the Scrapbook is
empty,
click on any tool in the toolbox.


Note that placing the Scrapbook is non-destructive -- it doesn't actually
empty it out. Also note, if you just copied something into scrapbook, and
now
wish to place into PM so it comes in as a pict YOU MUST HAVE CLOSED THE
SCRAP-
BOOK WINDOW. (This was a problem for Cindy who uses multifinder... she kept
getting error boxes saying active window/busy....)



A minor addendum from Ken: Users of older versions of PM may not be able to
see the scrapbook after they upgrade to System 7 on the Mac. That's because
system 7 gave the scrapbook its own creator code (scbk) instead of the
general system creator code (ZSYS). If you can't see the scrapbook in the
Place dialog and you are running system 7, use a tool like ResEdit or
DeskZap to change the creator code for the scrapbook file to ZSYS. The
scrapbook will still work at the System level, will now work with
PageMaker, but MAY NOT work with other utilities and programs that expect
the scbk code. PM 4.2 and beyond require no such adjustments.