Subj : Wikipedia and PDF-XChange
To : Ed Vance
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sat Sep 02 2017 10:17 am
Hi! Ed,
On Thu, 31 Aug 17, you wrote to me:
EV> What Program do You use to read PDF's when You use Windows
EV> in a VM? To Me PDF-XChange does real good.
I'm glad you asked, Ed. (Basically because I don't do much PDF-related work in
them unless I'm sending stuff to the creator-printer doover.) I got two
surprises:
* on my wife's XP SP2 I found PDF-XChange reader! Version 2.5 from 2014
(~35Mb). :)
* on my games & Fidonet (tools) base-grade XP I found Foxit Reader, version
5.4.3.0920 from 2012 I think (~43Mb on HDD). That was a real surprise as I
didn't expect to find any reader at all!
EV> I have noticed when I Read or Print some pages from
EV> PDF-XChange sometimes there is missing text between pages
EV> in the file, but I can live with that.
I see that sometimes in print previews, so I switch scaling factors or
sometimes even paper (dimension) sizes. E.g. I've dabbled a little with
'tabloid' or A3 output, since a lot of my PDF library is just for reference or
photo layouts, never for printing.
EV> CutePDF is another Program I was told could make PDF Files
EV> from pages I see in Firefox but I chose to used DoPDF
EV> because it has a Option to make a Small File. Hmmmm, maybe
EV> it's DoPDF cutting the lines off when I make a PDF instead
EV> of PDF-XChange? Hmmmmm. Maybe all this time it's "ED DID
EV> IT!!!!!!!!"?
Yeah, I've heard the name. File size isn't a problem for me any longer with
the ~1Tb HDD. It was with the ~500Gb on my Dell 560... still under the house,
doin' wonderful Fido stuff...
EV>> Such things happen regularly here. I hope it
EV>> doesn't happen to You.
Oh, I have enough gear running to have the blood pressure 'up' most every
morning. ;-)
PQ>> OTOH, I am suffering a Linux error of some sort where
PQ>> the date of creation on every page footer is reporting
PQ>> 1/1/1970;
EV> Need new Clock Battery on Motherboard?
Nup. It's software. (That date is as significant as 1/1/1980 is to DOS
old-timers.) The hardware is only just three years old, since I bought it
around the end of 2014.
EV> BTW, My handwriting is turible. <-- so is my English
So is mine. I have a GIF of the last time I wrote something on real paper.
It's a diagram of how I wanted three Fido programs to co-operate with their
settings... dated 1 July 2006. :)
Cheers,
Paul.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
* Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)
