[AT] Now PDF Files

[Larry Goss]

The bottom line is that absolutely FREE PDF files have been available in DOS and Windows for years.  It has been an "unadvertised feature" that has been buried in bowels of the system operating manuals.  What you're paying for (with all the various software titles) is a convenient user interface.  Somewhere along the line the amount of control that you demand of what you can do with the resulting file will determine whether you do it "cheap, fast, and dirty" or with some finesse.  If you have need for de-compiling PDF to revert to word processor, need  accurate OCR, etc, then the options for how you do that becomes very narrow.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Van Peursem <deanvp at att.net>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010 23:10
Subject: Re: [AT] Now PDF Files
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Mark,
> 
> There is a free program called "Open Office" which is equivalent 
> to MS Office that handles PDF files
> very nicely. 
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/
> 
> 
> 
> Dean VP
> Apache Junction, AZ
> 
> When everyone is thinking the same, someone's not thinking!---- 
> General Patton
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf
> Of Mark Greer
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:54 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???
> 
> Professor,
> Are you aware of any programs that allow a person to rea$onably 
> create .pdf 
> files? In my job I deal with a huge number of manufacturers 
> catalogs that I 
> download in .pdf format. I often need to send a page or two out 
> of these 
> catalogs to a customer and I'd like to be able to pull a page or 
> two from 
> the catalog and create a .pdf from that I can email or include 
> on a CD with 
> a bill of materials that I specify for a customer. I know Adobe 
> Acrobat will 
> do this but I really don't want to spend $300 of my own money to 
> have this 
> at work and my boss is too damn cheap to buy it for us.
> Mark Greer
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???
> 
> 
> Slicks = drag racer.
> 
> Here's something to make you all salivate.
> 
> http://steampunkworkshop.com/skinner-unaflow-steam-engine-needs-
> new-home
> 
> Larry 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
> 
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>