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Outlook was corrupted so I uninstalled it and reinstalled it.
Now when I try to open it it is telling me that files are missing, and that it can't open the outlook window. So I guess I need to recreate the default outlook files in the right directories.
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Used mail to figure out where outlook was searching for outlook.pst - apparently the user had moved this to her home directory and then deleted it.
I have bluetooth questions.
Reading up on it informs me that there's a master/slave hierarchy, with each master controlling up to seven slaves. This control involves being a source of reference for band-hopping (to reduce interference), etc.
My phone can only connect with one bluetooth device at a time. My computers can connect with more (I mean, the mouse doesn't give out when I'm transferring a file from my phone or PDA), and I'm assuming this isn't via slicing.
So, my computers can be masters, and my phone can only be a slave. In a multi-master-capable piconet (two computers and a phone)...well, am I even forming a piconet at this stage?
Also, what's the overhead in being able to control more than one device simultaneously? Will a phone readily be able to use Bluetooth to connect to my Mac and a headset at the same time?
So, what's an .est file? Or, more precisely, what do I need to read it?
I have a contractor who sent me some maps (I think) as .est files because they claimed they couldn't PDF them, and I don't have whatever it is I need to read them.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Possibly a "Microsoft Streets and Trips" file? That's the only thing that seems like it might be a map, though it seems like a very home-oriented file, not really for professional use. Information found here: [link]
As for what you need to read that, if it's what it is, MS Streets and Trips is $40 without GPS. I find it very hard to believe they can't find a way to make a PDF out of it, using one of those PDF print drivers that I know must be out there, if nothing else.
So, what's an .est file?
Filext.com gives three options [link] of which the most likely looks like Microsoft Streets and Trips.
eta: x-post!
Suela, I had MS&T, and those files can be saved in HTML format. It loses the metadata from the est file, which is essentially the ability to get information about rest stops, restaurants, gas stations, etc. on your route, but it will give you the map and the directions that you need. Might be worth asking them to send it in the other format.
Yeah, it's just--some of these files were put together over a year ago, and I'm not sure they still have all the information. It's also probably not spelled out in the contract, just me being a completist.
I don't suppose it's possible to scale a PDF along a single dimension for printing? Like if I had a report that was designed for legal paper (8 1/2 x 14) but the user would have the option of scaling it to 8 1/2 x 11 (so it would shrink in width (it's landscape) but not height)?
The alternative is to create and maintain two different versions of this fairly complex report.
I'm presuming the report is maintained in word process or dtp software?
Cause if so you can produce two different reports with different print sizes from the same file easily. Just use any software that uses a print driver to print to a pdf. Then print twice to two pdfs, once with the first set of print setting, once with the second.
Actually I think you can produce a single pdf that will work with different page sizes - but if you can't control the reader version it may not work for everyone. Cause normally page numbers are just hard coded in by your source document. But you can put in javascript buttons, which will work if the user has the right reader version , and (unlike me) has not disabled javscript in adobe. I think the "two files" solution is actually more portable.
(Reader by default automatically rescales pdfs to your print settings. But it probably will add odd page breaks, and hard coded page numbers will wrong.)