On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stephen Irons wrote:
[1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure?
For devices you don't own, but are thinking of buying? For devices you aren't
even thinking of buying?
As over half the content of modern manuals are content free text such
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, John Carter wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stephen Irons wrote:
[1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure?
For devices you don't own, but are thinking of buying? For devices you
aren't even thinking of buying?
Of course the flip side is I
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stephen Irons wrote:
[1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For
pleasure? For devices you don't own, but are thinking of buying? For devices
you aren't even thinking of
Mostly they sem to contain drivel about interference with other
devices, the evils of inserting your VCR in a bathtub or leaving your 46
inch TV outside in the rain.
And never clean anything with benzene!
A
(Actually, I do like reading manuals. From cover to cover.)
.
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Errington [mailto:a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2009 10:24 am
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF
Mostly they sem to contain drivel about interference with other
devices, the evils of inserting
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Mon 16 Feb 2009 17:04:41 NZDT +1300, Stephen Irons wrote:
[...]
Looks like most PDF editors are, let's say, not quite there yet.
Use pdfimages (of xpdf) to extract all images. Check the watermark is a
bitmap graphics. If so, there's probably only one copy in the PDF,
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz wrote:
Canon have shown themselves to be pretty moronic in other ways too. My
digital still camera can take videos, but records the sound at 11024 samples
per second -- 1 sample per second slower than 1/4 of 44100.
On Mon 16 Feb 2009 17:04:41 NZDT +1300, Stephen Irons wrote:
[...]
Looks like most PDF editors are, let's say, not quite there yet.
Use pdfimages (of xpdf) to extract all images. Check the watermark is a
bitmap graphics. If so, there's probably only one copy in the PDF, which you
could turn
I have bought a second-hand device. It came without the user manual. I
have downloaded a PDF of the user manual from the manufacturer's website.
When I print the PDF, it print with a watermarked 'COPY' diagonally
across every page. I would like to get rid of it.
When I view the PDF using
