09-02-17 10:17 Paul Quinn wrote to Ed Vance about Wikipedia and PDF-XChange

 PQ> {at}MSGID: 
 PQ> Hi! Ed,

 PQ> 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.

 PQ> I'm glad you asked, Ed.  (Basically because I don't do much PDF-related
 PQ> work in them unless I'm sending stuff to the creator-printer doover.)
 PQ> I got two surprises:

I just use DoPDF to keep pages I find interesting, I haven't tried
to Write anything in a PDF.

 PQ> * on my wife's XP SP2 I found PDF-XChange reader!  Version 2.5 from
 PQ> 2014 (~35Mb).  :)

 PQ> * on my games & Fidonet (tools) base-grade XP I found Foxit Reader,
 PQ> version 5.4.3.0920 from 2012 I think (~43Mb on HDD).  That was a real
 PQ> 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.

 PQ> I see that sometimes in print previews, so I switch scaling factors or
 PQ> sometimes even paper (dimension) sizes.  E.g. I've dabbled a little
 PQ> with 'tabloid' or A3 output, since a lot of my PDF library is just for
 PQ> reference or photo layouts, never for printing.

Reference, is the word I couldn't think of typing in the last line I typed.

 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!!!!!!!!"?

 PQ> Yeah, I've heard the name.  File size isn't a problem for me any longer
 PQ> with the ~1Tb HDD.  It was with the ~500Gb on my Dell 560... still
 PQ> under the house, doin' wonderful Fido stuff...

I recently cloned the XP HDD to a bigger one but haven't changed DoPDF's
small size Setting, Yet, maybe I'll try unchecking it to see if the Line
Dropping problem is cured.

 EV>> Such things happen regularly here. I hope it
 EV>> doesn't happen to You.

 PQ> Oh, I have enough gear running to have the blood pressure 'up' most
 PQ> every morning.  ;-)

Oh, it's no longer "SUPRISE! SUPRISE!" when some gear misbehaves?

 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?

 PQ> Nup.  It's software.  (That date is as significant as 1/1/1980 is to
 PQ> DOS old-timers.)  The hardware is only just three years old, since I
 PQ> bought it around the end of 2014.

I've only tinkered with U'U and Mint, and haven't used them enuf to have
any idea of what the trouble would be.
I'm not the only one here, maybe Mark or someone else has an idea for You.

 EV> BTW, My handwriting is turible.   <-- so is my English

 PQ> So is mine.  I have a GIF of the last time I wrote something on real
 PQ> paper. It's a diagram of how I wanted three Fido programs to co-operate
 PQ> with their settings... dated 1 July 2006.  :)

ELEVEN YEARS?????, If You don't start using paper down there the TREES
are going to take over the whole Country down there.

You got to help keep them thar Trees in control.

If I Print something on my Printer and after a while don't need it anymore,
I use the back side of it to scribble notes on it before it goes in the
shredder or waste paper basket.

When the writing on the paper gets cold at times I have no idea what I
wrote down.

You too?


... What goes up and goes down but does not move? - The temperature.
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