Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
Sometimes you have to open the file from withing the program instead of clicking on it to open. I've seen the problem a few times. The worst offender is when I receive a PDF in an email and it displays as an attached text file. I have to wait for the entire thing to load, then detach it to

[CGUYS] Seeking fax software

2007-06-01 Thread Michael S. Altus
The SuperVoice fax software that came installed in my desktop (now upgraded to Windows XP) machine does not work in my Toshiba Satellite M55-S139 laptop. I know that the modem is working because I can use my AOL on dialup. Any ideas of fax freeware? Or if I have to purchase fax software,

Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation

2007-06-01 Thread Stewart A. Marshall
Now I am not completely familiar with contracts such as these, but I am pretty sure the narrowly written contracts were the result of legal advice companies got when they had to battle former employees who took or attempted to patent items that were developed for companies on company time and

Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation

2007-06-01 Thread Constance Warner
If we all avoided software from convicted predatory monopolists it would only take a few years for things to get better. With competition and alternatives you would probably not be facing an EULA that you find so objectionable. Yes you have a problem. You should work to solve that problem.

Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation

2007-06-01 Thread mike
How is this even possible? Talking about installing a program on a computer has gone to talking about german resistance in WWII? In a few years are we going to read the diary of a young girl who lived with her family in the hidden basement of someone's home running vista home inside WINE in

Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation

2007-06-01 Thread Jordman
Thank you all for a really interesting conversation here. But I can't help mentioning that, with the lawyers in the justice department and the judges in our courts packed with radical right wing corporate ideologues, are the laws and the courts based on morality or rational thought any more?

Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
I suspect that the header on the text PDF is nonstandard, rather than having a defective mail program, otherwise all PDFs would behave the same. Next time I have PDF that displays as text, I'll save it and see if I can compare the header with one that behaves better. Yes, incorrect MIME can be

Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation

2007-06-01 Thread mike
Except for all the radical left wing nutjob judges that pack our courts. Not much rational thought either way. Mike On 6/1/07, Jordman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for a really interesting conversation here. But I can't help mentioning that, with the lawyers in the justice

Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment

2007-06-01 Thread b_s-wilk
Newer PDF files available at the Fairfax County government website are not readable with any of the various PDF viewers I have on my Mac under 10.3.9, except for any embedded bit mapped graphic files contained therein. The text portions are garbled. Older PDF files on the site are fully

Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation

2007-06-01 Thread Stewart A. Marshall
I will go one step farther. The left is but a mirror image of the right! Stewart At 12:15 PM 6/1/2007, you wrote: Except for all the radical left wing nutjob judges that pack our courts. Not much rational thought either way. Mike On 6/1/07, Jordman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all

Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
If we want to do something about unfair practices in the computer industry, we have to do something about the monopolistic corporations. It matters how you vote, and what kind of leadership we have in Washington. Yes. People who don't vote because it doesn't matter. People who vote for

Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
I requested a Preview-compatible version because Preview can save fill-in forms with contents, as opposed to Adobe Reader that prints but doesn't save the forms, and doesn't print to Preview either. Actually Acrobat Reader can do more. The creator of the form can set the PDF to email the