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Nice site, but...

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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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[snip]
755K / 107 pages printing web page to Acrobat 6.0.0 printer driver
(standard settings)

V4: 499K
V5: 587K
V6: 755K

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Greg Neff
VP Engineering
*Microsym* Computers Inc.
[email protected]

Adobe just gets better and better and better.... ;-)

You can see why I've stuck with V4 for most of my PDF tasks, and use
V5 only for it's PNG capabilities.

...Jim Thompson

Irfan view will save as png. Does the conversion for you. PSP is
also nice because you can do things in the PNG/JPG/GIF wizard like
interlaced, pallettes, etc.
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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I used Mozilla - file-save as.

Cheers!
Rich

What was the total size of the page and images - right clk the
directory and select properties.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:07:59 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
[snip]
Adobe just gets better and better and better.... ;-)

You can see why I've stuck with V4 for most of my PDF tasks, and use
V5 only for it's PNG capabilities.

...Jim Thompson

Irfan view will save as png. Does the conversion for you. PSP is
also nice because you can do things in the PNG/JPG/GIF wizard like
interlaced, pallettes, etc.

I like Adobe V5 because I save all my documentation as PDFs. When I
want to create a PowerPoint presentation of the results I just run the
PDFs into V5 and "Save As" PNG. Perfect size, etc., no twiddling or
the slowness of PSP (V8.1).

...Jim Thompson
 
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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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I get 111 pages to pdf *and* print preview with pdf995 and MSOE,
respectively.

When I print to a file with MSOE, I can only save as a .prn file
which XP doesn't associate with any apps I have. I think you're
supposed to be able to send it to a printer, but I can't remember
what I read about that.

If your printer *isn't USB*:

Open a command prompt and type

COPY file.prn > lpt1:

If this don't work try

COPY /B file.prn > lpt1:

If your printer is on a network, you need 'NET USE' (AFAIK) to link it to a
parallel port name.

If your printer is USB, you're probably out of luck.

[]s
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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Ahh... PDF2PNG
There should be such a utility
But... a PB2PNG
Could not be seen as futility.

Not in our country
Or on our Forte
The one named PB
Is still PNG.
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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I get 111 pages to pdf *and* print preview with pdf995 and MSOE,
respectively.

When I print to a file with MSOE, I can only save as a .prn file
which XP doesn't associate with any apps I have. I think you're
supposed to be able to send it to a printer, but I can't remember
what I read about that.

If your printer *isn't USB*:

Open a command prompt and type

COPY file.prn > lpt1:

If this don't work try

COPY /B file.prn > lpt1:

If your printer is on a network, you need 'NET USE' (AFAIK) to link it to a
parallel port name.

If your printer is USB, you're probably out of luck.

[]s

Ok, thanks. Haven't used NET USE since the last time I tried
connecting XP to Samba - an excersize in futility, IME.
 
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Fred Bloggs

Jan 1, 1970
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Active8 said:
The file is long and you can't save it for later reading because MS
Officino de Redmond, WA Los Estados Unidos (AKA hell del diablo
satan) codes and loads the pics somehow and they don't save.

http://www.eng.warwick.ac.uk/staff/elh/elh_es261_notes/notes1_m_2000.htm

The whole thing saves in one fell swoop as a meta-HTML (dot MHT) in
Internet Explorer- using standard File->Save As. The file properties
show it to be a 1.08M disc file, a single object with single click
re-opening.
 
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budgie

Jan 1, 1970
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Ahh... PDF2PNG
There should be such a utility

There should be a PDF2DOC or PDF2TXT that can operate without needing full
Acrobat, and handle pdf sources that were tagged "don't allow copying". And
freeware/shareware would be nice too.

We have a large pdf file which is a snapshot of a living database (hence we
can't regenerate the same file) and we need to get it into a more
search-friendly form than 22000 pages of all text PDF. :-((
 
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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim Thompson wrote...
I like Adobe V5 because I save all my documentation as PDFs. When I
want to create a PowerPoint presentation of the results I just run the
PDFs into V5 and "Save As" PNG. Perfect size, etc., no twiddling or
the slowness of PSP (V8.1).

Version 6 as well. I saved a 192k byte 16-page LTC datasheet (LT3436)
as a png, and the collection of 16 png files took 1212k, which is 6.3x
more space. The LT3436 datasheet is filled with detailed schematics.
Blowing up the figure on the last page by 1200% for examination, the
200dpi png version is badly pixelated, but the pdf postscript-vector
version is still perfect, with round transformer-winding loops, etc.

Why make PowerPoint files when you can show superior Acrobat files in
full-screen mode, advancing from page to page just like powerpoint?
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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There should be a PDF2DOC or PDF2TXT that can operate without needing full
Acrobat, and handle pdf sources that were tagged "don't allow copying". And
freeware/shareware would be nice too.

We have a large pdf file which is a snapshot of a living database (hence we
can't regenerate the same file) and we need to get it into a more
search-friendly form than 22000 pages of all text PDF. :-((

I'll try to remember which of my freebies *does* extract text.

I'm glad to see so many suggestions others have made on how to save
the files from the site in my OP. Out of all the methods, pdf995 has
given me the smallest file size, but it's still almost twice as
large as that from Acrobat v4. Going to Word and then pdf995, did
add a bit more because of the intermediate step, but not much
compared to going to Word and then saving as HTML, Word, or RTF.

The pdf995 suite does include "serch within", but the pdf *must not*
be from a scan, of course. That often rules out data sheets.

The text extract util is part of pdfedit995 and I see that

it also converts the last doc printed to an image and PNG is one of
the formats.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^ ATTN: JT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There's also another app called UltraPDF. All are free but have
nags.

The one thing I can't find is a *true* pdf editor, despite the name
of pdfedit995. It's a bitch because you print an html file to the
pdf995 driver, but at least in the case of using MSOE, you get the
html file page number and the URL printed on every page and you
can't actually open a PDF file and edit it. You can only set
pdfedit995 to do certain actions with the driver as it's doing the
conversion.
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim Thompson wrote...

Version 6 as well. I saved a 192k byte 16-page LTC datasheet (LT3436)
as a png, and the collection of 16 png files took 1212k, which is 6.3x
more space. The LT3436 datasheet is filled with detailed schematics.
Blowing up the figure on the last page by 1200% for examination, the
200dpi png version is badly pixelated, but the pdf postscript-vector
version is still perfect, with round transformer-winding loops, etc.

Why make PowerPoint files when you can show superior Acrobat files in
full-screen mode, advancing from page to page just like powerpoint?

I really don't like PPT.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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I really don't like PPT.

I don't either, but some of my customers insist on me doing design
reviews in a big conference room, with PPT on a PC-based projector :-(

I've only recently discovered that PDFs can be hierarchically
structured, just as in your schematic capture, with push and pop
capability. Makes it *much* easier to explain circuit function
without going backwards and forwards, trying to locate a slide.

...Jim Thompson
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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I don't either, but some of my customers insist on me doing design
reviews in a big conference room, with PPT on a PC-based projector :-(

I've only recently discovered that PDFs can be hierarchically
structured, just as in your schematic capture, with push and pop
capability. Makes it *much* easier to explain circuit function
without going backwards and forwards, trying to locate a slide.

...Jim Thompson

If only your customers would realize that *you're their* god and not
the other way around, eh?

I *think* my freebie can do hyperlinks, but since Win mentioned
animation, I guess it's good that I have PPT. More work :(
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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Ok.

Sorry to digress, but my Uncle was in town this week. He's a retired
Latin teacher (tutors rich kids now) and tennis pro as well as the
family etymologist. I mentioned your name (as best I could pronounce
it and eventually wrote it down for him) because you always give
such great etymologies.
He said it sounded Greek. Is that right? He searched his banks for a
translation and came up blank - got me thinking it was a psuedonym
but a web search with "definition" added just brought up discussions
where you defined words.

No, not a pseudonym, although one person in aue accused me of creating
an anagram to hide my identity. What you see is what you get.
So what's the skinny on your name? Uncle Joe's got me curious.

My father's side of family originally was from Greece (north west
coast part), so I got grandad's first name. Same as Spiro Agnew,if you
remember that cr**k. Spelling in English when taken from foreign
languages that don't use the Roman alphabet (Greek, Russian, Chinese
etc.) is kinda open season, so you can find a number of variations. My
name is not that unusual in the original alphabet and in the correct
region of the world, but here, with this spelling, it's as close to
unique as one is likely to get. Ethnically, I'm a mixed up 3-5th
generation Canuck, with Greek, English, German and French bits.
Probably why I like to have fresh Pakistani halal nan with my Korean
kam ja tang (pork bone spicy soup). I don't speak anything but English
fluently, but with a bit of high school French (mostly useful for
needling Jim, n'est ce pas?) and some steadily improving Mandarin
capability.

A musing- it has been said that the availability of pirate versions of
programs such as Autocad was a great benefit to the companies that
sold them- since it increased their penetration and allowed people to
learn to use them. So long as they made sure that companies of any
size paid for copies, their revenue stream was enhanced long-term. I
wonder if this is now happening with English on a massive scale due to
the wide availability of pirated ebooks on just about any subject.
Local publishers just have no way of competing against free goods, and
it gives people an incentive to struggle with English to get to use
the free stuff.
Best one I've heard yet was a Cajun whose last name in French meant
young boy. His americanized (or anglicized) name is Young. In French
it's Jeune Garcon` - he may have said "le Jeune Garcon`".

That's another possibility- to translate by meaning. And Chinese
people often have both an English and a Chinese name, that are not
necessarily similar phonetically (but they can be). When they try to
get phonetic similarly you get silly things like a competent young
female Chinese medical doctor I knew who was unfortunately named
"Fi-fi".
Here's a new one on me:

http://www.fonetiks.org and pick a language

You can hover over the vowel(s) and it plays the sound.

For anyone interested in Chinese, here is a good site:

http://www.mandarintools.com/

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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I get 111 pages to pdf *and* print preview with pdf995 and MSOE,
respectively.

When I print to a file with MSOE, I can only save as a .prn file
which XP doesn't associate with any apps I have. I think you're
supposed to be able to send it to a printer, but I can't remember
what I read about that.

If your printer *isn't USB*:

Open a command prompt and type

COPY file.prn > lpt1:

If this don't work try

COPY /B file.prn > lpt1:

If your printer is on a network, you need 'NET USE' (AFAIK) to link it to a
parallel port name.

If your printer is USB, you're probably out of luck.

[]s

Ok, thanks. Haven't used NET USE since the last time I tried
connecting XP to Samba - an excersize in futility, IME.

On a network you just "share" the printer. On the machine where the
printer is located you set "Share as" and give the printer a name.

On your local machine you "install" a printer (and its software), but
designate where it's located, and its name.

Then it's just as simple as printing to a local printer.

...Jim Thompson
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlog
Spelling in English when taken from foreign
languages that don't use the Roman alphabet (Greek, Russian, Chinese
etc.) is kinda open season, so you can find a number of variations. My
name is not that unusual in the original alphabet and in the correct
region of the world, but here, with this spelling, it's as close to
unique as one is likely to get.

You agree that the two letters 'h' were added at some time for artistic
effect? They don't exist in those positions in Greek, which has no 'h'
as such, only the aspirated consonants 'kh' (chi), 'ph' (phi) and 'th'
(theta) and the aspirated vowel 'he' ('eta), AFAIK. Archaic versions had
more possibilities, I believe.
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Active8 <[email protected]>
If only your customers would realize that *you're their* god and not the
other way around, eh?

Jim is their God, but they are his Mammon. No Mammon, no gammon (or
steak, either).
 
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