PDF is a vector format derived from PostScript. If you had the original
document file, not a scan, then saving it into PDF would be a good
idea.
The PDF would contain the font information, the text (coded as ASCII or
UTF), and geometry infomation about how the text is positioned on the
page.
then shop Costco or BJ's. they are so much better.
i think you will have much difficulty living and shopping in USA and not
finding the same porblems.
what percentage of your beloved MAC products are produced offshore, by slave
labor?
At 11:49 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
b_s-wilk wrote:
I
Of course, now that Adobe has opened up the pdf format, this may
change. But for now, it's just not an editing format.
I agree that PDF is not an editing format. But it was never really
intended to be, it was intended to be a fixed presentation format.
Also, while it is only recently that PDF
the mall is one of the showplaces of the estates united. the mall has been an
embarrassment for the past couple of years. no reason to maintain the mall,
the whitehouse or lawn the capitol grounds, ect, as the usa has been a
tremendous embarrassment to itself for quite a number of years.
You know, I really wonder how I seem to stay profitable and
have zero employee turnover. I really ought to get into a line
of work that doesn't really need all these highly skilled career
professionals that I'm competing for.
A couple of years ago I listened to an interview with the president of
I have another take on the .pdf's, and take some issue with Tom. I have
scanned my letterhead to a pretty high resolution .tif file. I can then type
in photoshop my correspondance, then convert to .pdf - clunky, but it works.
Files go from 37mb down to a manageable 500kb for e-mail. I am
the mall is one of the showplaces of the estates united. the mall has
been an embarrassment for the past couple of years. no reason to maintain
the mall, the whitehouse or lawn the capitol grounds, ect, as the usa has
been a tremendous embarrassment to itself for quite a number of years.
800's will work fine, if they fit in the space.
there are a lot of counterfeit batteries out there. the counterfeit Nokia
batteries even come with the nokia holo.
batteries need cobalt to be high quailty. cobalt is expensive. cheap
batteries = no cobalt. other than buying directly from
I have another take on the .pdf's, and take some issue with Tom. I have
scanned my letterhead to a pretty high resolution .tif file. I can then
type in photoshop my correspondance, then convert to .pdf - clunky, but it
works. Files go from 37mb down to a manageable 500kb for e-mail. I am
It's a good, compact and portable format that most people know what to do
with. Few people outside of graphics departments have encountered a tiff;
even fewer know what to do with it.
So when you have a computer problem do you simply conclude that the gods
are no longer smiling and you have to
There's bound to be a train wreck, whenever the switchover occurs. As
someone who has always received his TV with a rooftop antenna, and who
has an eleven year old analog set ($200 at Belmont-TV - which still
delivers a beautiful picture), I have already made the conversion.
The process would be
PBS, no favorite of the neocons, stood to lose $22M with a delay.
The legislation did not require the stations to not switch. It merely
relaxed the requirement that they do switch. If the station did not care
about its audience it was free to switch at anytime. The law also
allocated funds to
The small picture being, apparently, what's good and not good about the OS.
Do we really have to spell it out like that?
And the big picture is the long-term strategy of the company, which in
turn guides some of the small-picture choices it makes.
most of the landscaper employees that i have seen have appearances of some
Hispanic origin. pulling them all to the mall should give TSA an opportunity
to hire dozens of new field agents to check papers. again, good for the
economy.
by the way, tom, have you ever been checked for
Something to realize...with over 90% of the market they aren't trying to
lure any mac people, they are trying to lure those XP business users. Mac
users, like Tom, are trying to keep the impression that 'win 7 looks like
crap'...
Did you even bother to read the review?
After I installed Windows
i think my windows programs are quite happy to open tiffs.
i have received a number of pdfs that idiots create with word(?) i think, send
them to me, then ask me to edit them. in the first place, it is a bastard form
of pdf, and not happy to open. second place, i am not too good with
the landscape area around the tidal basin is aggressively maintained. the
beds are dug up at least 4 times a year and the plantings replaced. the spring
bulbs are removed and dumped. i knew a landscaper who used to go to the
dumping site and take whatever he wanted. i do not know about
At 09:55 AM 1/29/2009, chad evans wyatt wrote:
I have another take on the .pdf's, and take some issue with Tom. I have
scanned my letterhead to a pretty high resolution .tif file. I can then type
in photoshop my correspondance, then convert to .pdf - clunky, but it works.
Files go from 37mb
OS X's print to PDF feature is great, by the way. I use it regularly
when sending documents that the recipient doesn't need to edit
because that way I don't have to worry whether or not they can
read it. Leopard gained the ability for PDF's to have working
hyperlinks, at least for PDF's
This list is not about being stupid.
I couldn't agree more. Doing things the way we've always done it
and expecting everyone else to conform to your expectations is quite
stupid.
I prefer to use what works for non-techies so they can go about their
day, unconcerned with the sausage making,
um...yes I did. What I had to say did not challenge what was said in the
review at all. Also to be correct, Office 2007 received warm reviews from
almost every corner because of the new UI, not in spite of.
It would be difficult for you to argue that you aren't trying to keep a
negative
That is an excessively pessimistic response to the idea of repairing the
Mall as one recovery project. I would not think that looking around for
items of public importance that are suffering neglect is reckless, the
way the post implies.
An effective recovery package needs elements of both.
during summer season, prior to the Cheney administration, the mall was damaged
daily. not only did people walk on it, but there were about 50 softball games
a day, daily volleyball, rugby, soccer,basketball and whatever else needed a
field. weekly there was a polo(yeah, with real horses).
during summer season, prior to the Cheney administration, the mall was
damaged daily. not only did people walk on it, but there were about 50
softball games a day, daily volleyball, rugby, soccer,basketball and
whatever else needed a field. weekly there was a polo(yeah, with real
horses).
I
Do you mean Save as PDF ? When I last used this feature on a Pages version
3.0.2 wp document, it saved the PDF in a hug font, larger than the original
Pages wp document. I thought pdfs were to preserve the look of the original.
What did I do wrong?
OS X's print to PDF feature is great, by
What percentage of everything you consume is produced offshore by slave labor
?
What do you think your Nikes (anywhere) and Kathy Lee Gifford $20 skirts
(Walmart) would cost without it? Would you be willing to pay the true cost
of such items when made by well-paid workers?
Clearly, you've
I prefer to use what works for non-techies so they can go about their
day, unconcerned with the sausage making, rather than what the
self-proclaimed experts deem the right way.
At least you are consistent.
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tifs will open in windows photo gallery and can be edited. they are
transparent to the user. user probably does not know he is opening tif
instead of gif or jpg. my understanding is that tif is one of the more
efficient methods of file compression for pics.
I find the best rule is to not
for an example of very high maintainance, just look at the plot in the
center of Ohio drive between the 14th st bridge and 17th st.
Good question. That small plot of land does look so much better than the
rest of the Mall. Perhaps it is maintained by Treasury because it is
across the street
by the way, tom, have you ever been checked for citizenship? i have not.
How do you know that? I bet you have.
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Google has teamed with others to provide a test suite and 36
globally-dispersed servers for testing internet performance. The goal is
to make it transparent if your ISP is messing with your traffic. This is
still early stage and it is bogged because everyone is giving it a try.
I'm in the cue
Clearly, you've never been in Asia, where slave labor provides money to
families who would otherwise lack it or otherwise starve or sell their
children into the sex trade of the slums as an alternative.
i do believe tom's neocon would want to know what was wrong with that picture,
and could
We already have the full Final Cut suite (please don't ask why we bought the
software before the hardware-wasn't my decision), I'd like to get some
suggestions for hardware. Hopefully, we can keep this under $10,000. Doesn't
have to be top of the line, but definitely more than a basic model.
That is an excessively pessimistic response to the idea of repairing the
Mall as one recovery project. I would not think that looking around for
items of public importance that are suffering neglect is reckless, the
way the post implies.
Not at all. There is a distinct difference in saying
I didn't have that problem...neither did my non-computer oriented wife.
Under this scenario, no one should switch from windows to mac, how will they
figure it out?
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
You did not answer the reviewer's question...
After I
Tom Piwowar wrote:
This list is not about being stupid.
Damn! I knew I was in the wrong place!
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So recovery projects should not include a criteria for Things that are
Important to us (and that need repair)? What should the criteria be?
So are you proposing that by keeping all of Your Money, you will do a
better job at recovery than the gov't? I didn't get much from the 2nd
paragraph
You need a MacOS to run the software, which means you need a dongle
from Apple. Lots of confusion at the software site, including a list
of system requirements:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs/#finalcutpro
Once you have a dongle errr... system, you can easily spend 10k on a
camera if
I didn't have that problem...neither did my non-computer oriented wife.
Under this scenario, no one should switch from windows to mac, how will they
figure it out?
Preference in UI is largely subjective. What works for one person may
not for another.
The author slams the UI changes in
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
by the way, tom, have you ever been checked for citizenship? i have not.
How do you know that? I bet you have.
When you apply for a job have you been asked to present a Social Security
Card and a driver's license? That is a
Mac Pro with two 500G external storage drives for starters, plus 2
Apple Cinema displays. A lot will depend upon how much video you will
have to load at any one time, how much stock footage you will keep
permanently loaded and whether it will be standard or high definition.
Richard P.
We
The author slams the UI changes in Office, but my experience has been
positive.
So has most other people's, the pundits notwithstanding. Whatever MS's
faults may be, they are very good about finding out what their customers
think (not always so good with doing something about what they find).
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:11:46 -0500, gerald wrote:
july, gathering for/against abortions, etc) if they would have only known, and
paved that thing from wall to wall when they had the chance. would have been
very cost effective.
There's always Astro-Turf.
--
Katan
Welcome to ObamaNation!
Our
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:42:36 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote:
softball games a day, daily volleyball, rugby, soccer,basketball and
whatever else needed a field. weekly there was a polo(yeah, with real
horses).
I think you have hit on a plan the neocons will go for. We'll fix up the
mall and then
Yeah, I got the PDF add-on for my older Office distribution at
the same time I got the add-on for opening the newer Office
formats. I'm guessing that they did this because OpenOffice
has had a PDF feature for a while now. Competition is good!
Speaking of the new Office formats, I thought that
So has most other people's, the pundits notwithstanding. Whatever MS's
faults may be, they are very good about finding out what their customers
think (not always so good with doing something about what they find).
Bob is a great example of this. And Clippy too.
So is Word's behavior when two
tha
When you apply for a job have you been asked to present a Social Security
Card and a driver's license? That is a citizenship check.
that is totally incorrect.
No state requires citizenship, for a drivers licence, not even texas.
drivers licence in many states, MD included does not
At 12:53 PM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
What percentage of everything you consume is produced offshore by slave
labor ?
excluding food(we eat a lot of food from mexico and south america) and wine, i
would guess well over 50%, and maybe even over 75%.
last i heard, japan and korea allowed most all of
Yes, I meant the Save as PDF… option on the Print dialog box.
Calling it Print to PDF is fairly common, I think, unless my
memory betrays me.
As to the problem you had, the save as PDF option has always
worked properly for me, but for some reason Preview will sometimes
open up PDFs with a high
The only criteria should be:
Is this the most efficient use of the taxpayer's money to meet the
enumerated responsibilities of the federal government?
One thing I can never get an answer to from proponents of big
government is How much is enough?. Care to take a stab at it?
Matthew
On
I know this is a long shot... Is there a way to show the differences
between two pdf files? A quick google brought up this site
http://www.ranks.nl/cgi-bin/ranksnl/tools/difference.cgi
It seems to work for a few seconds, but then doesn't show any results.
Maybe the source docs have to be true
I've seen people cry when they saw the new improved interface.
I'm telling you what their user research says. You are preferring anecdotal
evidence to research. Bad idea. Your personal stories notwithstanding, the
ribbon interface is popular.
my understanding is that tif is one of the more efficient methods
of file compression for pics.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF, which also matches
my memory, Today, most TIFF images and readers remain based
upon uncompressed 32-bit CMYK or 24-bit RGB images. The article
goes
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Chris Dunford ch...@covesoftware.comwrote:
I've seen people cry when they saw the new improved interface.
I'm telling you what their user research says. You are preferring anecdotal
evidence to research. Bad idea. Your personal stories notwithstanding, the
An honor to be dope-slapped. Equal opportunity. You did see the file
reduction, right? Of course I tried .jpg compression first, but that printed
very badly @500kb. I wanted a file that would both reduce, but print well, if
needed. .pdf conversion worked, trial and error, not sorcery. I
We already have the full Final Cut suite (please don't ask why we bought
the software before the hardware-wasn't my decision)
Why would we ask? Picking software first is the smart thing to do. And
you picked the software that is generally considered the best NLE. Be
happy.
I'd like to get
The GIF image format uses LZW, for example.
GIF maps all colors into a CLUT to make the file smaller. Works great if
the image has a limited color space. If not, it posterizes the image. Not
good.
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I'm telling you what their user research says. You are preferring anecdotal
evidence to research. Bad idea. Your personal stories notwithstanding, the
ribbon interface is popular.
It be double plus good! From the people who brought us Clippy.
The good news is that you can find tiny buttons on
If you do some research, or just watch the more informative news
programs, you will find out that tax cuts do little or nothing to
stimulate the economy. (and certainly nothing for people without jobs)
Check this graph:http://flickr.com/photos/9818...@n03/3232223191/
Infrastructure, whether
did you post this during the bush adm?
why you out of the woodwork today?
compare this mess to the bush printing press?
did you call imholf or whoever your republican senator is when he did this?
did you write ugly letters to the wsj and scream bluddy murder when they
cheered on the trillion
An honor to be dope-slapped. Equal opportunity. You did see the file
reduction, right? Of course I tried .jpg compression first, but that
printed very badly @500kb. I wanted a file that would both reduce, but
print well, if needed. .pdf conversion worked, trial and error, not sorcery.
did you write ugly letters to the wsj and scream bluddy murder when they
cheered on the trillion dollar dump to the wall street big banks?
You forgot to mention those bundles of $100 bills that were tossed around
with wild abandon (and no records kept).
Not to mention the trillion and a half thrown away on a useless elective
war which has inflamed the Middle East, that even Bush senior wasn't
belligerent enough to get into!
gerald wrote:
did you post this during the bush adm?
why you out of the woodwork today?
compare this mess to the bush
I know this is a long shot... Is there a way to show the differences
between two pdf files? A quick google brought up this site
http://www.ranks.nl/cgi-bin/ranksnl/tools/difference.cgi
Acrobat 8 does it and version 9 has expanded the feature.
wilder abandon-er now
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
did you write ugly letters to the wsj and scream bluddy murder when they
cheered on the trillion dollar dump to the wall street big banks?
You forgot to mention those bundles of $100 bills that were
Tom Piwowar wrote:
did you write ugly letters to the wsj and scream bluddy murder when they
cheered on the trillion dollar dump to the wall street big banks?
You forgot to mention those bundles of $100 bills that were tossed around
with wild abandon (and no records kept).
Hey, if
Is this the most efficient use of the taxpayer's money to meet the
enumerated responsibilities of the federal government?
Tax cuts are probably the least efficient form of government spending. It
is randomly tossing money to the winds. There is no direction to it. It
gets spent on things like
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Atlas-Shrugged.id-7.html
Only 5.99 and you won't have to spend 13 months of your life reading it.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Tax cuts are probably the least efficient form of government spending. It
is
The 700B TARP was intended ONLY to rescue the entire financial system
so that the whole economy wouldn't collapse, and, as bad as things are
now and may worsen, it has served that purpose. And the participants
received LOANS, at hefty interest rates, which have a good chance of
being repaid.
I'm telling you what their user research says. You are
preferring anecdotal evidence to research. Bad idea.
Your personal stories notwithstanding, the ribbon
interface is popular.
It be double plus good! From the people who brought us Clippy.
The good news is that you can find tiny
My cordless is a uniden ...it uses actually the same battery as some cell
phones ...I do know the cell phone batteries have an ic chip in them to
prevent overcharging ...you better check whether your cordless has that
feature to make it go well with the charger stand ...mine does ...not all
The 700B TARP was intended ONLY to rescue the entire financial system so
that the whole economy wouldn't collapse, and, as bad as things are now
and may worsen, it has served that purpose...
Now, Obama and the Democrats trillion dollar dump is exactly that, a
huge gamble that it will create
Awcrap ...and I thought I was among peers !! Silly me !!
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From: Jordan [mailto:jor17...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Scanned
Tom Piwowar wrote:
This list is not about being stupid.
Damn! I knew I was in the wrong place!
When you apply for a job have you been asked to present a Social Security
Card and a driver's license? That is a citizenship check.
that is totally incorrect.
No state requires citizenship, for a drivers licence, not even texas.
Correct or not. When I hire someone I am required by the Feds to
Get children of LadyByrd to scatter seeds ...they did that on a highway near
here a long time back and we've been payin' big bucks for the mowing ever
since !!
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From: One Man [mailto:one911...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:33 AM
Subject: Resodding the
I am at the reinstall windows point ...I have fresh as a daisy winxphomesp3
on my computer with msoffice2002 and coupla other things on already due to a
crash ...now I want to use the scanner without that presto garbage which
blocks lots of resources while it runs and makes my box sludge ...on the
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Atlas-Shrugged.id-7.html
Ayn Rand, right wing fruitcake. An argument that we should give even more
to the looters and moochers of Wall Street so they can build their
private islands of opulance amid the public squalor.
chad evans wyatt cewyattph...@yahoo.com escribió:
An honor to be dope-slapped. Equal opportunity. You did see the file
reduction,
right? Of course I tried .jpg compression first, but that printed very badly
@500kb.
I wanted a file that would both reduce, but print well, if needed. .pdf
So, I should put on the driver that came with it, eh? I didn't put presto
back on and don't want to (had crash, fresh install winxphomesp3) ...thanks
to all who answered!!
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From: Rev. Stewart Marshall [mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
I think you need to re read some of your history. We did not come
out of the depression until the Second world war and the ramping up
of production.
Of course all this can be debated till the horses come home. Once
the gate is open they are out it does not matter how they got out,
what
Damn! I knew I was in the wrong place!
I guess that proves you are not stupid.
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Well you certainly don't want the unwashed masses ruining your Polo
field. Geeze.
It is located in a remote part of West Potomac Park, not really part of
the Mall, but south of it. I think the Mall and Washington are a big
enough place that we can make a little room for horsemen too.
Stop getting your history from the left wing media.
Saying that doesn't help much does it? FDR's new deal never got
unemployment below 20%, the jobless rate went up in 38, not down.
Unemployment was at it's lowest the year before the new deal part 2 was
enacted, and went up the following year.
plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
Three years ago they dug up Farragut Square. They even
broke up all the
concrete sidewalks that criss-cross the park. Then they
poured new
concrete where the old concrete had been. The old concrete
had been fine.
The new concrete looked no
Tax cuts are probably the least efficient form of government spending.
It
is randomly tossing money to the winds. There is no direction to it. It
gets spent on things like $50,000,000 airplane toys, liquor and other
drugs, whores, mink coats, and general bling.
Really? I need to hang out
did you post this during the bush adm?
I dunno. Did it come up?
why you out of the woodwork today?
I think I've been out of both the woodwork and the closet for a couple
decades now.
compare this mess to the bush printing press?
It's all the goodness of that, plus hope and change. I just
So we become defacto 'ID Checkers' and 'ID Validators'.
It was broadly hinted to me I should photo copy and retain the documents
presented with the I-9 form, 'Of course, of course, not required, but
just a suggestion'. So I wonder what the phrase was in world war 2?
Something about 'your
Again, TARP was a loan, Economic Recovery Package is spending.
It's all spending and TARP is not a loan. It's an outright purchase
troubled assets and equities. It's also a blank check for the POTUS and
Treasury Secretary to spend on any damn thing they want.
There was plenty of that done on this side of the ocean also.
Many people fail to remember the Japanese interment camps, the German
internment camps and other forms of state sponsored discrimination
based on nationality.
Those with no knowledge of history often repeat the same mistakes.
You are correct that that was the original intent. But Paulson quickly
changed course. To my knowledge, none of the TARP has yet been used to
purchase the troubled assets. It has all gone to AIG, BofA, CitiBank,
etc, and lately Detroit. But those were all loans or preferred stock
purchases
Does anyone know if there is a blue tooth ear bud that will work in a
coordinated way with any misc. blue tooth equipped MP3 player AND any
blue tooth equipped cellphone?
My reason for asking:
In order to follow NPR's talk shows as I travel around on business
during the day, with my pocket
... break all the windows in the the museums ...
But, but, that's like taking coal to Newcastle.
Windows is already broken!
Aw, shucks! You mean real windows. My bad.
mumble And, I thought this was a computer list.
Silly me! /mumble
Hello everyone--I'm looking for an ergonomic keyboard I can use with
a broken arm. My fingers stick out of the end of the cast and I can
sort of wiggle them, maybe enough to type on a computer keyboard.
(I'm using one hand to type this, and it's slow and laborious.)
The one
I know of some headphones, not ear buds that are bluetooth and work
with a variety of bluetooth appliances including phones, mp3 players
and computers.
Stewart
At 09:08 PM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a blue tooth ear bud that will work in
a coordinated way with any
How about piece of plywood 3 ft. square with a U shape cut out of it ...
big enough for you and your chair... then place it on your desk with the
computer/ monitor and keyboard sitting on the part without the cutout.
It should wrap around you and provide support for your arm and cast.
If
the sodding was pulled from the bill to appease the republicans. they still
voted 100% against.
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On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Is this the most efficient use of the taxpayer's money to meet the
enumerated responsibilities of the federal government?
Tax cuts are probably the least efficient form of government spending.
Tax cuts are not spending. The money is not the
What companies make such?
A blue tooth earbud with a cellphone mic and the ability to pick up and
switch between a blue tooth cellphone and a bluetooth MP3 player / FM
radio would be perfect.
db
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
I know of some headphones, not ear buds that are bluetooth and work
they've got their turf; what do they care for the nation's?
the sodding was pulled from the bill to appease the
republicans. they still voted 100% against.
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Motorola and LG are two I know of.
They make them for the music phones that transmit in stereo and also
make phone calls. Motorola Q, and the LG Chocolate are two of the
phones we have in our house.
Stewart
At 09:36 PM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
What companies make such?
A blue tooth earbud
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