General

I am registering my program, but when I click the "OK" button, nothing happens.

Make sure you have filled in all of the fields in the registration dialog box. If you have filled in all of the fields, then there is something wrong with the serial number you have entered. Be sure to use the serial number provided on the sheet of paper that was included in the envelope with the installation CD. It should contain at least 14 characters and numbers.

I want to index some documents, but the Index menu and the Index icon are both disabled.

There are two reasons for the Index menu to be disabled: either Sonar is in search mode or indexing has been disabled. To exit search mode, select "File->Close->Folder(s)". If this does not enable the Index menu, then you need to contact Virginia Systems for additional help.

Either Sonar Image cannot find your scanner or you are in search mode. Make sure your scanner is turned on, connected, and has been selected using Chooser on the Macintosh or "Select Scanner..." in the Scan menu on Windows. If you are in search mode, select "File->Close->Folder(s)". If this does not help, contact Virginia Systems for additional help.

We suggest you connect your scanner to an OrangeMicro Grappler 930U SCSI card. The SCSI bus must be on bus zero and the Grappler card fulfills this requirement.

This can happen if the document has been changed, but has not been reindexed. It can also happen if you are searching files which were indexed on a different platform (a Macintosh user viewing a file indexed on Windows or vice versa). You can turn this message off by unchecking "Check For Modified Files" in the "Search" menu.

The log file is in the folder which contains the Sonar program. You can view the file with any word processor - including SimpleText for Macintosh users or WordPad for Windows users. The log file is deleted whenever Sonar is launched, so be sure and examine the file before starting Sonar again.

In WebSonar's log file I see the message "A search result was lost, too many users." What does this mean?

There are two reasons why this message can appear in the log file. First, you have not licensed enough users. Or second, the user had not looked at his search results for over one hour - search results are discarded after one hour if there is no activity. If there are a lot of these messages, you probably need to license more users.

This message only appears if you either haven't viewed your search results within an hour or you need to license more users because more people are using WebSonar to search at one time than you have anticipated.

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I am trying to open my word/phrase list in Sonar Bookends, but it is not shown.

Your word/phrase list must be saved as a text only file. Open the word/phrase list and resave it as a text only file.

You have inadvertantly put either your word/phrase list or a previous index in the folder that you are indexing. Thus the word/phrase list or the index is being indexed along with your document. Remove the extra file, remove any Sonar Bookends files in the folder and then make your index again.

When indexing a folder of documents, the documents should be named in alphabetical order. A safe naming convention for your files is to give them two digits names: 01, 02, 03... 09, 10, 11, 12, etc. For Windows, be sure to add the ".vss" suffix to file names exported from QuarkXPress or PageMaker.

You need to export your QuarkXPress or PageMaker document using the XTension or Plug-in, respectively, that came with Sonar Bookends. The installation instructions are in a readme file in the Sonar Bookends folder.

You need to export your QuarkXPress or PageMaker document using the XTension or Plug-in, respectively, that came with Sonar Bookends. The installation instructions are in a readme file in the Sonar Bookends folder.

Indexing a web site is an additional cost option. After purchasing the option, you will be given a new serial number that will fully enable web-site indexing.

The page numbers for each section in a multiple section document always begin with page one, even though different starting page numbers had been manually specified.

In InDesign's general preferences, select View: Section Numbering and not View: Absolute Numbering.

I get a message "Cannot open parsing dictionary" and InDesign sometimes crashes afterwards.

You have not installed Sonar Bookends InDex Pro correctly. In the Sonar Bookends InDex Pro install folder are eight files in a folder named "File for Windows Folder" (Windows) or "Files for Preferences Folder" (Mac). These files must be copied into the correct location or they cannot be found and can cause sorting to misbehave or even cause a crash.

The page numbers that have been activated are off by one or more pages, but I am sure that I have done everything correctly.

Be sure that the page numbers used by Acrobat for your document match the actual page number printed on the page itself. Acrobat has the ability to set the page numbering for a document - that is what you use to make both the Acrobat page number and the actual page number match.