Re: *.pdf

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:33:42PM -0000, keth@... wrote:

> exist. One drawback is that the Acrobat reader does not
> respond to "cut-and-paste", i.e. you cannot transfer
> sections of acrobat texts to your clipboard, and from there
> to other editors. That means that acrobat material is more
> cumbersome to work with, for example in connection with
> translations, because you then cannot just insert translations
> "in-between" given text lines. This drawback may however
> not be very important.

This seems like a very big problem to me. I don't want to manually retype
anything I'm translating or asking questions about.

I actually have a similar problem with word. I can _read_ word, but I can't
reply to it conveniently; there's no way to get the usual email quotation
effect, and still have the resulting email in non-word format. I have to
save the word document as text and mail it (as a particular type of
attachment) to a Unix system. Alternatively, I could probably write
the reply as a word document (quoting each line manually), then save the
reply as text and attach it to a mail message. But while each of these
are tedious, neither is as tedious as having to retype any text I'm replying
to. That I'd really prefer to avoid.

> I did download the font, but didn't install it, because
> I lost the zip/unzip application when I installed the new
> system last year. (the hd was formatted) Maybe zip/unzip
> now is default with windows? I could install the font, but
> it would take me some time to find the old diskettes where
> I have zip/unzip and install the program. (I used it under
> MS dos).

You should probably upgrade to a windows capable zip. I think it's available
as shareware. (Of course if you start using it regularly, you should pay for
it anyway, but I believe it's fairly inexpensive.) I don't remember where to
download from, but I found it fairly fast. Maybe search for 'pkzip' with
your favourite search engine?

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Arlie

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