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§ ita § - Nov 02, 2012 2:18:47 pm PDT #21408 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

A *new* version of Jellybean? Why does it have two versions? How is that not going to make a fractured market more confused?


Typo Boy - Nov 02, 2012 2:19:28 pm PDT #21409 of 25501
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.

All pdf to word converters leave some artifact. Pdf convert from scansoft does the cleanest job in my experience, though you will almost always have to do some manual cleanup. Pdfs are designed for printing,and they simply do not convert cleanly to word.


Rob - Nov 02, 2012 2:21:11 pm PDT #21410 of 25501

If you have hundreds of software developers on a project it's going to keep getting new features and with new features comes a new version number.


mothra - Nov 02, 2012 2:39:09 pm PDT #21411 of 25501
Mothra, benevolent winged goddess, protector of the earth.

I hadn't paid much attention to that Solid to PDF app because it seemed pricey. Now that I've downloaded the demo, I'm really impressed. It seems to be retaining most of the original formatting. The Wondershare app isn't nearly as good. While the documents may look the same on the surface, when you go to 'view invisibles', you immediately see the difference. Considering the time it will save me, it will be $80 well spent. Thanks so much for persisting! I am very grateful for your help.


le nubian - Nov 02, 2012 2:56:40 pm PDT #21412 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I'm glad that worked!


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2012 3:15:16 pm PDT #21413 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I might be the second to last person to see Firefox's 3D page visualisation tool (our business users *really* proved their point--there's hearing your app goes 15 tables deep, and then there's seeing it does). I will be showing that tool around Monday like no one's business.


Sue - Nov 03, 2012 5:23:59 am PDT #21414 of 25501
hip deep in pie

Strix, I know nothing about the Nook, but your friend may want to check into the availability of titles in Canada. I have a Kindle and I have found some books at the Kindle store unavailable for purchase because of licensing issues in Canada. I end up having to buy e-books from Kobo and breaking the DRM.

(Don't get me started on being unable to subscribe to the New Yorker.)


Strix - Nov 03, 2012 5:49:07 am PDT #21415 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Will do. Thanks, Sue!


Dana - Nov 04, 2012 9:32:31 am PST #21416 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Hey, who knew that using System Restore on Windows 7 triggers a message saying "This copy of Windows is not genuine"?

Because now I do.


§ ita § - Nov 05, 2012 6:22:55 am PST #21417 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am trying to work out best practices for Tasker, and it's lopsided enough that I'm just confused.

What I want to do, is to set up my phone so that if I place it face down at night, calls, texts, and voicemails don't make any perceptible sounds. Alarms, on the other hand, should be left alone.

It seems to be designed so that you have a context of 1 item (as in, either the time period or the phone orientation) that triggers certain results. The lopsidedness to which I refer means that I have to detect the face down status in the context, because I don't see how to pick that up later with vanilla Tasker.

So, basically--that part I can do, but I need to make sure that if the phone is face up, or if it's not in that time period, the volumes are unfucked with. Should I achieve this entirely with exit tasks? Or should some/any of that be in the elses of the if statements that parse the time period?