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