I find that changing the zoom in and out and the size of the ruler does the trick. In other words "jiggle it about a bit" John On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:00 AM, <freebmd-admins-request@rootsweb.com>wrote: > > Mail for the mailing list should be send to > FreeBMD-Admins@rootsweb.com > > The website for the mailing list is > http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ > It contains all the information about the project and is current status. > Archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: free bmd data entry - ruler problem (Barrie) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Barrie <freebmd@myarcher.net> > To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:56:37 +0100 > Subject: Re: free bmd data entry - ruler problem > I suggest that you recalibrate the ruler even though it appears to be > correctly calibrated ("goes down to the tenth record"). > > When the scan is displayed, switch off the ruler if it is displayed > (View/Hide Ruler). Then switch on the ruler (View/Show Ruler). OK to the > next message. When the message comes up to move the ruler to line one, > use the scroll bar controls to move the image up and down so that ruler > is under line one - do this even if it is already in the correct place. > Click OK and do the same for the tenth line - again move the image even > if it is the correct place. > > Please report if this works, or anything else you do that works, so that > we can add it to the Transcribers' Knowledge Base. > > Barrie > > On 19:59, tony mansell wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > > > > > Can you help me? For some unknown reason the ruler on my scan viewer > display > > no longer moves; I have tried on a number of occasions to get it moving; > the > > instructions remain clear and it goes down to the tenth record, etc, but > it > > has to be scrolled down manually which is a pain. > > > > > > > > This first occurred at about 13.00 hrs GMT on Mon 11th July. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > tonym > > > > > > > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner-- > > > To contact the FREEBMD-ADMINS list administrator, send an email to > FREEBMD-ADMINS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the FREEBMD-ADMINS mailing list, send an email to > FREEBMD-ADMINS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > >