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Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?  

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Lee - Mar 03, 2006 1:36:41 pm PST #7363 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

SeanMOKTSP?


Jessica - Mar 03, 2006 1:37:16 pm PST #7364 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have you as seanmoktsp.


Sean K - Mar 03, 2006 1:37:24 pm PST #7365 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Thank you, Perkins!


Tom Scola - Mar 03, 2006 1:51:45 pm PST #7366 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Blackberry lawsuit settled: [link]


Consuela - Mar 03, 2006 3:52:54 pm PST #7367 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

$612M. Wow.


tommyrot - Mar 03, 2006 3:57:38 pm PST #7368 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I think the company suing was hoping for a lot more. Somewhere I read that this lower amount is a reflection on the patent issue going badly for the suing company....


Tom Scola - Mar 03, 2006 4:09:36 pm PST #7369 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Spidra, insent.


SuziQ - Mar 04, 2006 10:04:43 am PST #7370 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

For anyone who cares - I finally got my TiVO working again. All I needed was the stupid IR cable. I wish I knew what I did with the one that came with the set. Gah.


Typo Boy - Mar 04, 2006 4:48:52 pm PST #7371 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Dana

I know there's freeware out there that will let you create a PDF from a Word doc. Is there anything that goes in reverse? Approximately three thousand of the source documents for my new project are PDFs, and my life would be a lot easier if they were editable.

Not freeware, but for under $200 bucks there is scanscoft, which has saved my life in terms of extracting large amounts of tabular data from pdfs. Will either translate the whole thing into word document with word tables, or just extract the tables as excel worksheets. One thing, while it does a pretty good job of preserving fonts and margins and such, you will lose minor amounts of formatting.

Bonus: much better at translating your word docs back into pdfs. Better options for creating lower resolution, smaller files for example or high quality publishing ready. Also some funky stuff with margins some of the free stuff does it does not.


le nubian - Mar 04, 2006 5:49:02 pm PST #7372 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I think Adobe Acrobat might be under $200 itself, isn't it?