I'm using Acrobat reader 7.0, when I use the text select tool to select a rectangle of text, it copies it in reverse order... So if I copy the labels from a vertical address bus for example, I expect it to be top to bottom, but it's bottom to top. No matter in what order I drew the box. Even if I rotate the page to be upside-down.
Is this a bug or some sort of feature? I've been checking out the various options, seen nothing so far.
Obviously, all bugs and mess-ups are FEATURES.
Yes, in software, all bugs are features. In hardware, the slightest mistake is grounds for a firing. I love software!
How _do_ you "select text" in v7? I've not been able to do much with Adobe v7 except paste-over transparencies. I use v4 for everything else.
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There's a tool that looks like an old style text cursor with a dotted rectangle. It works like the "mark" tool in the windows command prompt. Except, as noted, it copies in bottom to top order. I can fix it in Excel but what a pain.
Use Foxit Reader. Adobe makes buggy bloatware.
John
Sounds good. Thanks.
Finally figured it out. The tool looks like "I>", except the "I" is taller.
Copies text in the right order for me, but I always start my blocks from upper-left to lower-right.
...Jim Thompson
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Liberalism is a persistent vegetative state
And CutePDF makes pdf's from anything. Fast.
John
Yeah, but CutePDF ain't free no more, so you have to find an old copy somewhere. As I vaguely recall, CutePDF was a GUI for Ghostit.
Jim
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This doesn't work?
John
There's the FOSS app PDFCreator over at sourceforge.net. It's also a Ghostscript front end but quite configurable and will "do more" than several other Adobe-alternates, e.g., produce "fast web view" documents.
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Foxit still won't copy from protected documents.
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Foxit editor can, you import the page into a currently open pdf, and that seems to clear the copyright flag then save the open pdf. Been a while since I did it, but thats what I remember
martin
Is the editor free?
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Nope, 'fraid not, try the demo version.
Good for doing data sheets.
I write the text in Open Oriffice, print to PDF directly. On my PCB/SCH software I print directly to pdf with Primopdf (free).
This keeps the vectory stuff, so you can zoom in on schematics and PCB's, really neat.So much better than having a jpg splodgework in a document from a screen dump
Then I glue the whole thing together in foxit editor. a bit circuitous (sp?), but it works for me.
martin
It surely does. I don't know what loop I got myself into, but the last two times I went to cutepdf, I couldn't find it.
Thanks,
Jim
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If you are truly grateful, express your thanks by not top posting.
John
Now that do make me curious. Are we seeing for sale products that "leverage" GNU FOSS components despite the terms of GPL
There are two versions of CutePDF. The free one is still free, and is the one that requires GhostScript to be installed on the computer. You can still download the latest free version at
The Professional version is the paid version, and does not require GhostScript. It offers many of the features of Adobe Acrobat that are not available with the free version of CutePDF.
From the CutePDF website: "CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!" "FREE for commercial and non-commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads!"
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