Hi Don, Thanks for the reply. I've been using PDFCrerator <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/>for years with no complaint. Like reDirect, it also acts...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 1, 2012 6:27 am
Thanks for the reply, Axel. Ray Shapp ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 6, 2012 5:49 pm
... I'm curious: Can your member read my version 1.2 file? If so, do you need any help in setting up ghostscript? N.B: The "newer is always better" brigade...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 7, 2012 9:24 am
Hi Axel and others, I discovered that the club member who was unable to read the PDF file wasn't allowing sufficient time for the file to download. Actual size...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 7, 2012 1:15 pm
... Ah well, that leads me back to my other side remark. Try another PDF writer, OpenOffice is not bad and reads Word.doc. Looking closely your Mars image...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 7, 2012 5:53 pm
Hi Axel, <<Could you make the original DOC available?>> ... The original DOC file is now available at: www.asterism.org/events/Mars ...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 7, 2012 6:26 pm
... This is one more example that Docs don't travel, it looks much different from your original here, mostly due to a lack of fonts. Copying the image I find...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 7, 2012 11:37 pm
Hi Axel and others, On your advice, I have installed Open Office 3. Wow! The document renders very differently in Writer. Text boxes overlap. The graphic is...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 8, 2012 1:25 am
... Yes, it's an exceptionally bad case. Mostly documents can be read without flaws, but Word is known for that problem even between different Word...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 17, 2012 12:49 am
Hi Notetabbers, Please help me pare down the size of a huge Word document file. A member of my astronomy club sent me the monthly newsletter in a huge file ...
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Dave
david_99_au
Feb 17, 2012 11:47 am
Hi tried the dropbox free ,could not find it , turn on your hidden codes doc,s are notoriously big due to formatting and you may have hidden image as well. ...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 17, 2012 12:24 pm
Hi Dave, Thanks for the reply. I don't think I have any hidden graphics because I saved the DOC file as a web page with HTM extension. That creates a separate...
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Dave
david_99_au
Feb 17, 2012 1:06 pm
Hi the reason is the image above this line 4000x4000 pixels , a good 10meg ,the image you see is just a smaller file "Illustration courtesy: ESO/VISTA/J....
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 17, 2012 1:27 pm
... Word hides things from you. I copied the astronomy picture from the title page out of the Word from Office 2003 and it seems to be (not quite) 300 by 300...
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Dave
david_99_au
Feb 17, 2012 1:28 pm
Hi forgot to say right click on image and copy into irfanview and you will see it think for a while and then show file as last email 4000x4000 pixels THANKYOU...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 17, 2012 1:30 pm
... Is there a way to see that in Winword itself without converting and using other programs? Danke Axel -- Dipl.-Ing. F. Axel Berger Tel: +49/ 2174/ 7439...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 17, 2012 1:33 pm
... That's what gave me those 300 by 300 pixels, seemingly the current screen resolution. Word 2002 out of Office 2003. Axel...
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Dave
david_99_au
Feb 17, 2012 2:06 pm
Hi I would guess that doc would save a small image as the designer wants but the real size is hidden until it is saved, just like the old netscape days that...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Feb 17, 2012 2:47 pm
... Yes, but Ray's document was already saved. Copying from OpenOffice you don't get what you see but what's there, in this case an image big enough to crash...
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Adrien Verlee
verlee2001
Feb 17, 2012 4:24 pm
... @Ray One: you can ask to save in rtf (I think this should be smaller); Two: Why not ask to learn Markdown, and from markwdown to html. ... @Axel It is an...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 17, 2012 6:02 pm
Hi Dave, That's it! When I examined the file sizes of the graphics, I did so by saving the DOC file as a *filtered* web page. That caused all the graphics to...
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Ray Shapp
rayshapp
Feb 17, 2012 6:12 pm
Hi Axel, <<Is there a way to see that in Winword itself without converting and using ... Yes. After Dave called my attention to the image of the Helix Nebula...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Feb 23, 2012 3:25 am
Hi I found a very simple PDF reader, actually too simple for my taste. But, it also reads CHM files and it has what looks like nicer bookmarking feature than...
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Gerard Huijing
bibh_yah
Feb 23, 2012 5:10 am
Thank you! I had tried Sumatra for a short time, was not all that impressed, but did not realise that it could read CHM files too. Of kchmviewer I had never...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Feb 23, 2012 5:34 am
... I like kchmviewer already (after using it about 10 minutes) but alas I've discovered a less good thing with it. When you use the ordinary viewer and click,...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Feb 23, 2012 5:37 am
... Jesus, I'm tired. A variable name in the MENU. Lotta...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Apr 17, 2012 9:55 am
Unfortunately Wordpress has neither a Usenet group nor even a mailing list und Web fora are totally out of the question, so what am I to do, but bother you...
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fw7oaks
Apr 17, 2012 12:39 pm
I'm probably missing the point but; to post you need to be registered with you ? Can't you just de-register the offender - I see you use Chaptcha to stop...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Apr 17, 2012 1:49 pm
... To post and comment yes. Trackback is different: The perpetrator writes a post supposedly commenting mine onto his own blog and a trackback comment linking...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Apr 17, 2012 2:01 pm
... Going over all the settings again I found it now: Settings-->Discussion has "Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)" and...
