Subj : Wikipedia and PDF-XChange
To   : Ed Vance
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sat Sep 02 2017 10:17 am

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
 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)

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