LinkBack

[Patrick J]

I realised that I have two LinkBack applications, Nisus Writer Express and Intaglio. With Intaglio I found I have to check a box in preferences to enable LinkBack.

Gosh, it works!

What a splendid thing it is as well. I was a great fan of OpenDoc but the real challenge with OpenDoc was getting it to work

After the OpenDoc experience I wasn't really expecting LinkBack to just work like that but indeed it seems to!

[gemboy27]

I have Nisus Writer Express 2.7
OminiOutliner 3.6 (upgraded from iMac bundle)
Image Tricks

I can not figure out how to make the linkback work


What am I missing?

Thanks
Gem*Boy



G5 intel 10.4.7

[Mark XM]

I have Nisus Writer Express 2.7
OminiOutliner 3.6 (upgraded from iMac bundle)
Image Tricks
I can not figure out how to make the linkback work
What am I missing?
Thanks
Gem*Boy
G5 intel 10.4.7

Both NWE and Outlook Express are LinkBack clients, that is to say that they will accept pasted items from a LinkBack source application, but they are not sources themselves. OmniGroup say they are planning to make OmniOutliner a link back source in a future version.
I don't know about Image Tricks. OmniGraffle (Fantastic App) is a LinkBack source which works brilliantly with both OmniOutliner and NWE. Just copy what you want and paste it into the target app.
I guess you need to go to the LinkBack website to find out what apps are LinkBack sources. I know Chartsmith is, but not of any others, as I have had no need for them.
Mark
TiBook 400/640 10.4.7

[gemboy27]

been http://www.linkbackproject.org/ (there), but it just doesn't make sense to me...

I understand 'client' and 'server'

I just don't see where the various 'clicks' are to make the linkback work

Gem*Boy

[Mark XM]

been http://www.linkbackproject.org/ (there), but it just doesn't make sense to me...

I understand 'client' and 'server'

I just don't see where the various 'clicks' are to make the linkback work

Gem*Boy

For instance: if you create a graphic in OmniGraffle; select all and copy, open an NWE document and paste--you must use copy and paste. You now have your graphic in NWE.
Close OmniGraffle if you want.
Double-click on the graphic in your NWE document and OG will open/come to the front with the graphic on a new page titled "Linkback item from Nisus Writer Express" which you can edit as normal in OG; make some changes, save and then go to NWE. The graphic in your NWE document has those changes.
The same process works between OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner.
You cannot work the other way. You cannot copy a block of text in NWE, paste it into either Omni application, double-click on it and re-edit it in NWE.
The other app you mentioned in your first message is not one I know, so I don't know whether it will act as a LinkBack server.
Mark

[gemboy27]

O I know how they work, I just can't make it work for me.....

thanks
Gem*Boy

[Mark XM]

O I know how they work, I just can't make it work for me.....

thanks
Gem*Boy

I've just had a look at the Image Tricks site and the LinkBack site. Image Tricks apparently uses LinkBack, but I get the impression that it will only work in conjunction with another graphics app like the others Belight produces. I've downloaded it and will give it a whirl when I have a moment.
Mark

[gemboy27]

on the Keynote (iWorks) they show that Sketch will work, but I can't get it to work with NWE, and the version I have of of Keynote(3) doesn't have a linkback pug in for it (yet)

maybe I will try sketch to imagetricks

gem

[gemboy27]

Okay... I got a linkback from NWE 2.7 to Sketch

one trick that I didn't notice before is when you double click on the image in NWE and it takes you to the linkback (Sketch image) and you change it, you have to save THEN it changes in the NWE file.

of course I want it to work with OminiOutliner...but such is life.

take care
Gem

[Mark XM]

Okay... I got a linkback from NWE 2.7 to Sketch

one trick that I didn't notice before is when you double click on the image in NWE and it takes you to the linkback (Sketch image) and you change it, you have to save THEN it changes in the NWE file.

of course I want it to work with OminiOutliner...but such is life.

take care
Gem

Yes, you have to save the changes--see my previous post. If it is working with NWE, it should be working with OO ... when you've pasted the image into OO, you have to click the disclosure triangle to see it--when it is pasted it just gives you a rounded thing with a name such as "linkback item". But if you mouse over it there is a triangle in the left of that area, click on that and the graphic is displayed.
By the way, I've just tried Image Tricks ... it crashes every time I double click the image in NWE. I copied the contents of the Apple Crash Report and have sent it to both Nisus and BeLight. I think there must be something wrong at the BeLight end, as I have only had a good experience with NWE and LinkBack.
Mark

New edit.

I use Keynote 2, again with OmniGraffle and it has always worked like a dream. I don't have Keynote 3 ... When I get my new MacBook Pro, I'm wondering whether I should even bother to get the new version of iWork.

Mark

[gemboy27]

on the KeyNote page they say there isn't a plug in for Key3, but is coming

[gemboy27]

Is there a way to make NWE go into OmniOraphic.... I can't see importing OO into NWE, butt using the wordprocessing capablities of NWE would be helpful -- to me.

It's not that there isn't good word processing in OO, just I like NWE better --

good evening
Gem*Boy

[Mark XM]

Is there a way to make NWE go into OmniOraphic.... I can't see importing OO into NWE, butt using the wordprocessing capablities of NWE would be helpful -- to me.

It's not that there isn't good word processing in OO, just I like NWE better --

good evening
Gem*Boy

Currently no. That is to say you could write in NWE then cut and paste into OmniOutliner--but you'd really want that to go the other way round ... outline to expanded editing ... mind you there are people who seem to be writing books in OmniOutliner!--but you'd have to do it separately for each paragraph into a separate row, unless you wanted the whole thing in a single row.
For OmniGraffle, again, you'd have to paste it into a text block.
Any further editing would have to be done in OO or OG. NWE is not a LinkBack server.
OO is a great app with masses of potential, but it is an outliner, not a word processor, page make-up app, spreadsheet or whatever ... mind you, you can use it as a very basic mini-spreadsheet, just like you could write a book in it if you wanted to!

Mark

[philippe99]

In my case -Intaglio and NWX-, the Linkback system as described above works fine only if the Intaglio app is running.
Otherwise, when I double-clik on a Intaglio image in a NWX document, the System sends me "Cannot find Intaglio.. {...} Be sure Intaglio is your Applications folder or Get the application"

All my applications are in the Applications main folder (not in a sub-folder)

???
Philippe

[Mark XM]

In my case -Intaglio and NWX-, the Linkback system as described above works fine only if the Intaglio app is running.
Otherwise, when I double-clik on a Intaglio image in a NWX document, the System sends me "Cannot find Intaglio.. {...} Be sure Intaglio is your Applications folder or Get the application"

All my applications are in the Applications main folder (not in a sub-folder)

???
Philippe

That must be a problem somewhere in your system, not specifically to do with LinkBack or its implementation in either of the apps in question.
I know that OmniGroup hasn't yet solved a similar kind of problem with their "clippings service", where it will post a message saying "OmniOutliner cannot be found" the first time you use the service after a shut-down, even though both the app and the clippings file are opened.
I don't know what the answer is, but my immediate gut feeling is to say, try repairing the permissions on your system disk (Use "Disk Utility") perhaps even start up from your CD-rom/DVD and try checking the system disk completely for errors and repairing it if there are any.
Other point ... I am using an aged TiBook 400 ... if you are using a new Intel-based Mac, it is possible that there is an issue there which I don't experience. Also I don't have "Intaglio" to try.

HTH
Mark