[AT] was: Huge Auction/computer question. Now: Adobe, Economy

[Larry D Goss]

There are a lot of differences in the Adobe Reader versions.  Version 4 is 
pretty archaic.  Adobe only currently supports version 5 or later.  Version 
6 seems to work fairly smoothly.  Version 7 has the bug that the French 
security team discovered.  Version 8 seems to work very nicely.  I've seen 
it referred to as the "legal version" of Adobe Acrobat because of all the 
special things it does that are particularly well-suited to use by law 
offices.  I had a long talk with my SIL (an attorney) last night about Bates 
numbering and a whole range of security issues for selectively protecting 
files to prevent (or allow) viewing, commenting, printing, and modification 
by clients, other attorneys, court officials, and the general public.   It's 
not a simple problem.

Since version 8 Professional is the first package to allow bidirectional 
conversion from word-processing, spreadsheets, photos, HTML, and multimedia, 
to PDF and back, it has some "very nice" features for those of us who are 
trying to do digital archiving of such things as tractor photos, original 
tractor company publications, and other tractor-related materials including 
voluntary tractor registry.  For instance, you can generate a fillable form 
as part of an email, have people fill out the form, return it, and 
automatically compile the responses into a spreadsheet that is completely 
searchable and indexable.

FWIW, I'm working on generating a fillable form for compiling information on 
two particular models of Power King tractors with the intent of putting 
together a spreadsheet that contains all the features and variations of 
these tractors so that as they are repaired and restored the differences may 
become recognizable and the progress of the design can be established.  I am 
looking in particular for owners of early Economy tractors (including 
Country Squire, Power Queen, Power King, and other related brand names) that 
came from the factory with either the chain steering or tiller steering 
configuration.  These will have serial numbers in the 101-1500 or the 
mid-4000 ranges.  If you own a tractor meeting this description, I would 
appreciate receiving word (OFF LIST) of the serial number and the name of 
the owner.  Please send any replies to rlgoss at evansville.net.

BTW, this is a fairly small group.  At the present time, there are less than 
40 still known to exist.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Kennedy" <ihctractor at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Huge Auction/computer question



Charlie,
   When I have trouble with IE not wanting to load I shut down and restart
my computer and this most of the time will correct the problem. I'm using
FireFox right now and it seems to run a lot faster with less problems.  I'm
on WildBlue Satellite service since Christmas and it took me about 2 minutes
to fully download the site.  I tried it on AOL and it took a lot longer to
download on the same server.
You might want check to see if you have the latest Acrobat I was surprised
to see how many things won't download to the old one.  Anyway I hope that
you get it working because its a great site. If you can't let me know and I
will send you the PDF file via e-mail.

John K.

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