There seems to be no option to do that from the GUI, but this web site helped me to get back on the track:
http://raamdev.com/accessing-the-vmware-fusion-bios

For those settings you need to edit the .vmx file of your virtual machine directly.

• Locate your virtual machine’s location (i.e. ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines/WinXP/Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm)
• Right click the .vmwarevm fiel and “show package content”
• Open the .vmx file in a text editor (i.e. mate Windows XP Professional.vmx)
• Add the setting bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE” at the end of the file

bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE” helped to enter the BIOS settings at boot time but strange enough the boot order options settings within the BIOS where locked.
I ended up adding the setting bios.bootOrder = “CDROM”, which sets the CDROM as the first boot option within the .vmx file.

The following errros may occure if readline is not properly configured on a system:

Fix

Here is the fix:

The resulting application is still in a early stage but already serves it’s purpose. If you are interested you can check out the code on GitHub or take a look at my resume page.

At the moment the application has the following features:

• support for resume, contact details and project-portfolio
• multi language support (using r18n)
• easy configuration over YAML files for data storage
• edit your resumes using markdown (using rdiscount)
• page caching (using rack-cache)

By the way, to get started with Sinatra I can recommend the excellent screencast from Peepcode.

Errors in the make log:

Your own readline

Compile and install your own readline:

Give rvm another try …

First you have to remove Ruby versions you tried to compile before:

The following command with a reference to the newly installed newline should do the job:

The trouble with the included “Reduce file size”-filter is that all pictures in the document are reduced to a size of 512×128 pixels which is often not sufficient for scanned documents.

After some research I found out that it’s possible to create your own Quartz-Filters which are afterwards available system wide.

Create your own “Reduce file size” -Quartz-Filter:

1. open the ColorSync utility and choose “Filter”
2. create a new filter by clicking the “+”
3. add an action to the filter by clicking on the arrow on the right: first a “picture adaption” -filter to reduce the file size (I chose to reduce the size by 60%, but you can play around with that)
4. add a second action to compress all images (I chose JPG and maximal compression)
5. Voilà – your new filter is ready and available in the PDF-Viewer Preview

With my custom filter I was able to reduce the PDF file size from 4.8 to 1.2 MB and maintain good quality at the same time.