In June 2009 I was told of a program, Scan Tailor, that works on the scans of the pages of a book and makes them ready for OCR, and for making PDFs, DJVUs and...
Nick: I am trying to convert Word to .pdf. Can you suggest something? Also, my system crashed so can you respond with your personal e-mail? Thanks, Allen _____...
Allen Kleiman
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Sep 20, 2009 3:15 pm
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Allen, It's fairly easy to convert Word to PDF with OpenOffice. There are lots of OpenOffice macro packages around to do this. My personal solution to this...
Allen, Bill's advice is good. I just tried converting a Word doc to PDF using OpenOffice, and it works beautifully. OpenOffice describes itself as "The Free...
Another simple way is to "print" Word files as pdf files, using PrimoPDF http://www.primopdf.com/primopdf_free_idx.htm ... Dan Matei, director CIMEC -...
... Works well for many documents, but there are a few rough edges. Macros are only necessary if you are trying to automate the process, into a single...
Allen Get the free 7-Zip from sourceforge. That should do it! Kind regards, Nick ... From: Allen Kleiman To: digital-text@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
My Word does not have a 'save as' .pdf. Which software would I have to buy to accomplish what you suggest? Allen ... From: digital-text@yahoogroups.com...
Allen Kleiman
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Sep 21, 2009 8:02 pm
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MS Office 2007 SP2. (aka the latest version) On 9/22/09 2:03 AM, "Allen Kleiman" <allenk@...> wrote: My Word does not have a 'save as' .pdf. Which...
Allen Follow the instructions we have jointly given you. No software need be bought. It's all free. We suggested that if you download OpenOffice, and use the...
... I should point out that the ToPDF converter also will use wkpdf or wkhtmltopdf, two excellent ways of producing standardized renderings of Web pages, if...
In case anyone is curious about why UpLib has all this stuff in it, it works by first producing a standardized rendering of the document under consideration,...
Hi Nick: Okay! I downloaded it and unziped it! I have a lot of files including make files and a c compiler. Am I now going to build the open office so I can...
Allen Kleiman
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Sep 25, 2009 5:48 pm
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Allen I cannot imagine what you have done to get all that stuff instead of the OpenOffice product itself. what you should have downloaded is ...
Hi Nick: It certainly is nice of you to help me out. I have downloaded the open office and run the setup.exe that was unpacked. I am not sure if I have to run...
Allen Kleiman
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Sep 26, 2009 4:47 pm
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Please refer to the email quoted below, and also to mine to this group of 14 February 2008 regarding scanning on a flatbed scanner. I have now evaluated "Scan...
... rm (del, for Windows users) works pretty well. There is no way to encrypt content in such a way that the end-user can see it without being able to extract...
One of the “down sides” of PDF being a completely open international standard (ISO 32000) is that everything about it is public – that includes all the...
... True. But the question asked about "securing" a PDF, and there's no way to do that against a reasonably computer-savvy user without password-based...
Actually, the PDF standard (ISO 32000-1) also provides for certificate-based encryption – where the file is encrypted to your private key (of a cryptographic...
I've put up UpLib 1.7.8 at http://uplib.parc.com/. Here's the change-log: * Updated for use with Python 2.6 and tested on Mac OS X 10.6. * Fixed a bug in the...
My Lexmark printer C752PS3 is locked in status 'off-line. Someone said that the Adobe Reader could cause this problem. Does anyone else have this problem? ...
Allen Kleiman
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Oct 17, 2009 2:54 am
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Does anyone know the file name for the link-sys router setup parameters, e.g., password. I wish to access this file as I have trashed the user name and...
Allen Kleiman
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Oct 19, 2009 2:05 am
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<http://www.fromchurch.com/wp-content/themes/rockinnewspaper-3col-1/rockinne wspaper-3col-1/images/photo1.jpg> Internet Ministry: What about the Kindle? I was...
Everyone, I've produced a "beta" ePub edition of Willa Cather's "My Antonia", and would like any and all feedback on it (please send your feedback by private...
... Since my original post, I discovered that the ePub of "My Antonia" does not properly autoload into the Epubreader Firefox add-on when the link to that...