Of all the stupid things . . . .

[Michael Black]

On Sat, 27 May 2017, Jon Elson wrote:

oldschool@tubes.com wrote:

Of all the stupid things . . . .
While looking at some online manuals, I downloaded a .PDF manual that's
upside down.....

What the hell am I supposed to do, stand on my head to read it?

I have the software to flip graphics, but I dont have the slightest clue
how to flip a PDF file.

Dont people check this stuff before they post it?

(No, I dont have a printer. I read everything on screen, so I have never
seen the need to waste paper or own a printer).

I guess I'll have to take this one to a print shop if I want to read it.
I guess you can turn your monitor upside down!

I have one of those LCD monitors that can be flipped 90 degrees, though
I've yet to try it. That would be a start, sideways isn't as bad as
upside down.

A tablet wouldn't know which way it's oriented, so long as you lock the
screen for one direction.

Michael

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Sun, 28 May 2017 12:54:19 -0400, oldschool@tubes.com wrote:

On Sun, 28 May 2017 09:57:54 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com
wrote:

Lesson learned. I no longer laugh at my customers mistakes, lack of
ability, failures to learn, stupid actions, lack of technical
abilities, etc.

Damn it, I'm Laughing out loud from reading this. How could you NOT
laugh at that one.....

The situation caught me off guard and I wasn't prepared. I also
assumed that she couldn't hear me laugh in the pay phone booth. I was
wrong.

At some point in the future, I ended up with an identical CDROM drive
with the caddy thing. By that time, they were totally obsolete and
nobody wanted them. I kept one on the shelf as a reminder to keep my
big mouth shut.

Incidentally, the original 1X CDROM drive cost me about $150 in
1985(?). The only data CD that we had available was something like
"World Statistics" which cost about $100. Times and prices have
changed somewhat.

My first thought was that she was a blond, and this would make a good
blond joke, but normally, blonds have a sense of humor and can laugh at
things like this. So, I guess you just met a plain asshole with no
brains....

Nope. Like most small towns, Santa Cruz CA is ruled by a few
families. She was the matriarch of one of those influential families.
To them, I was a mere "tradesman", who should not be tolerated, and
are considered disposable. I lost quite a bit of potential future
business from well paying clients that day. Oddly, I still do work
for 2 of the accountants who worked in that office, although both are
now retired.

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

 

[Ralph Phillips]

On 5/28/2017 12:08 PM, oldschool@tubes.com wrote:

On Sun, 28 May 2017 08:28:53 -0700, John Robertson <spam@flippers.com
wrote:

See if your reader allows you to save the newly rotated image series.
Depending on how PDF-Exchange works you want to highlight ALL pages and
rotate them together. Then see if you can save the file in the new
orientation.

I rotated the entire file (all pages). I did a "SAVE AS" to retain the
original, in case it did not work properly. It worked fine. The saved
file is an identical file size and views properly.

When I rotated, it gave me the option to rotate "Current page", Selected
pages (by number), or rotate "ALL". I chose the "ALL" option.

Now I know why I like PDF-Xchange!

(By the way, I'm using their "portable version"). That's the only one
that runs on both XP and Windows 98.

I'll add that if you run IRFANVIEW as your image viewer, with the
plugins, you can open a PDF, rotate the pages, and save the PDF rotated.

I also use Foxit Reader; but that sucker's bloating up like a beached
whale in August in Florida ...

RwP

 

On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:40:08 -0500, Ralph Phillips <ralphp@philent.biz>
wrote:

Now I know why I like PDF-Xchange!

(By the way, I'm using their "portable version"). That's the only one
that runs on both XP and Windows 98.

I'll add that if you run IRFANVIEW as your image viewer, with the
plugins, you can open a PDF, rotate the pages, and save the PDF rotated.

I also use Foxit Reader; but that sucker's bloating up like a beached
whale in August in Florida ...

RwP

IRFANVIEW can view PDF files???????
That's a new one on me.

I have IRFANVIEW installed, for viewing images, but I dont use it too
much. I prefer Acdsee. Mostly because IRFANVIEW always forces small
images to fit the screen as a default, and small images look like crap
when they expanded. So I have to repeatedly resize each and every image
to it's ACTUAL size. That gets real tiring. Acdsee shows the images at
their actual size, unless the image is larger than my screen, in which t
fits the image to the screen. I dont have to keep adjusting the viewed
image size, it just views automatically. Because of that, IRFANVIEW is
NOT my default viewer.

FOXIT Reader was once a decent PDF viewer. I used it for several years.
A few months ago, I put a larger hard drive in my laptop. Rather than
image my setup from the smaller drive, I decided to just reinstall XP
from scratch. I was traveling to a destination, and someone had given me
a PDF map. I pulled over at a wayside to view it, when I realized that I
did not have a PDF viewer installed.

So, I drive to the nearest restaurant that had WIFI, and googled "PDF
Viewer". The first one that popped up was Foxit. I was in a hurry and
did not have time to piss around. I just wanted to view that PDF map.
I installed Foxit reader, and what I saw was so bloated and filled with
complicated crap that I wanted no part of it. (And if I recall, it was
also full of advertising). I did manage to view my map though.
But a few days later, when I was not in a hurry, I again opened that
miserable bloated piece of shit, and looked at it. It took me less than
5 minutes to remove it from my computer, and install PDF-Xchange.
I thought Adobe's reader was bad, until I tried the latest Foxit. (It's
worse). I would not recommend Foxit to anyone.....

 

Here's a nice trick if you are still using XP. (also works in Vista)

Get into Windows Explorer and set it to show hidden/system files. Now go find the executable for each of your viewers or aything where you have a choice off different programs to open. Right click the executable and hit "Desktop Create Shortcut.

Drag those shortcuts into the \sendto directory, which will be under your username in Documents and Settings.

Now when you right click a file you can force it to any of the programs at will and not change the file association.

I tried it in Win7 and it gave me all kinds of hell with this access denied. Whose PC is this anyway ? I no longer have Win7.

 

[Ralph Phillips]

On 5/30/2017 10:41 AM, oldschool@tubes.com wrote:

On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:40:08 -0500, Ralph Phillips <ralphp@philent.biz
wrote:

I'll add that if you run IRFANVIEW as your image viewer, with the
plugins, you can open a PDF, rotate the pages, and save the PDF rotated.

I also use Foxit Reader; but that sucker's bloating up like a beached
whale in August in Florida ...

RwP

IRFANVIEW can view PDF files???????
That's a new one on me.

I have IRFANVIEW installed, for viewing images, but I dont use it too
much. I prefer Acdsee. Mostly because IRFANVIEW always forces small
images to fit the screen as a default, and small images look like crap
when they expanded. So I have to repeatedly resize each and every image
to it's ACTUAL size. That gets real tiring. Acdsee shows the images at
their actual size, unless the image is larger than my screen, in which t
fits the image to the screen. I dont have to keep adjusting the viewed
image size, it just views automatically. Because of that, IRFANVIEW is
NOT my default viewer.

Two things - 1) It's in the plugins, which is a separate download, to
view PDF files. I use it quite routinely when W/Os I do for companies
as a "contingent work force provider" are required to be JPGs not my
standard PDFs. This will also allow you to open a PDF, save it as a
JPG, PNG, or what not; and open a TIF, JPG, PNG, whatnot and ... save it
as a PDF.

2) Ahem. View --> Display Options --> Fit only big images to display
window. Your complaint is solved. (What? Been like that since version
2.sumpin', and I'm currently using 4.4 .)

Not saying ACDSee is any worse, mind you! It might be fantstically
better. But Irfanview has been my go-to of choice since, well, the 90's
at least. At least partly due to how powerful it is with its filtering
(which is required less and less; my current GE point/n/click does a
good enough job I don't have to fix the images anymore.)

RwP