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From: John McWilliams on 17 Feb 2010 11:17 Nick Naym wrote: > In article emteedee-2D7BDF.20414617022010(a)feeder.eternal-september.org, Mike > Dee at emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid wrote on 2/17/10 4:41 AM: > >> In article <C7A11D30.534CD%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, >> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >> >>>> PDFLab will do it for you easily >>> At first glance, it seems that it will _not_ enable me to unlock the >>> document, as I don't have the "owner password." But I'll take a closer look >>> at it in the morning. >> Just try it at its default settings, drag the chapters onto PDFLab, >> rearrange them to suit and click the Create PDF button. You don't need >> to "unlock" any PDF beforehand. >> >> You should find that it takes approx 30 seconds to build a 700 - 800 >> page PDF file. > > Well, there's something wrong: Any attempt to even add a document onto > PDFLab causes it to quit after a couple of seconds. I then get a "The > application PDFLab quit unexpectedly" message, which allows me the option to > Relaunch. Relaunching and trying again also results in the application > quitting, this time generating a "Do you want to reset application settings > for PDF Lab?" message, which offers a "Reset and relaunch" option, > indicating that this option "may fix the problem." However, it doesn't: The > problem continues. At first I though it might be somehow related to the fact > that the files I was adding were themselves "locked" PDF files, but when I > tried it with a few "ordinary" PDF files, the same thing happened. > > Rebooting didn't help. Trashing the app and its plist and reinstalling it > (not that there's much "installation" involved) didn't help either. > > Very frustrating. :( Maybe you should just honor the terms of the document....... -- john mcwilliams
From: Davoud on 17 Feb 2010 11:47 Nick Naym: > > ... > > Rebooting didn't help. Trashing the app and its plist and reinstalling it > > (not that there's much "installation" involved) didn't help either. > > > > Very frustrating. :( John McWilliams: > Maybe you should just honor the terms of the document....... And if you (Mr. Naym) have to have the book and can't afford to buy it, send your mailing address to my e-mail address listed below and I will buy a copy of the 13th edition and have it sent to you. No kidding, and no one else will know. Davoud -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: BreadWithSpam on 17 Feb 2010 23:40 Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> writes: > I've downloaded a long book that was broken down into 26 separate chapters, > each with many pages, all in PDF format. It's all legal, and easy to view > chapter-by-chapter on my Mac. But I can't combine the chapters into a single > file, nor print any page -- everything is password protected. Try PDFpen. Ya, shareware rather than freeware. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting
From: Mike Dee on 18 Feb 2010 06:34 In article <C7A17C95.534D9%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > Well, there's something wrong: Any attempt to even add a document onto > PDFLab causes it to quit after a couple of seconds... [...] > > Rebooting didn't help. Trashing the app and its plist and reinstalling it > (not that there's much "installation" involved) didn't help either. > > Very frustrating. :( Well sorry to hear that, Nick. I can only add that it works without issue for me. But (and possibly a big but), I'm running it on an older PPC Mac (under Tiger OS 10.4.x) and PDFLab is a pretty old program I gather. -- dee
From: Tom Stiller on 18 Feb 2010 08:13
In article <C7A17C95.534D9%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > In article emteedee-2D7BDF.20414617022010(a)feeder.eternal-september.org, Mike > Dee at emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid wrote on 2/17/10 4:41 AM: > > > In article <C7A11D30.534CD%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, > > Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > >>> PDFLab will do it for you easily > >> > >> At first glance, it seems that it will _not_ enable me to unlock the > >> document, as I don't have the "owner password." But I'll take a closer look > >> at it in the morning. > > > > Just try it at its default settings, drag the chapters onto PDFLab, > > rearrange them to suit and click the Create PDF button. You don't need > > to "unlock" any PDF beforehand. > > > > You should find that it takes approx 30 seconds to build a 700 - 800 > > page PDF file. > > Well, there's something wrong: Any attempt to even add a document onto > PDFLab causes it to quit after a couple of seconds. I then get a "The > application PDFLab quit unexpectedly" message, which allows me the option to > Relaunch. Relaunching and trying again also results in the application > quitting, this time generating a "Do you want to reset application settings > for PDF Lab?" message, which offers a "Reset and relaunch" option, > indicating that this option "may fix the problem." However, it doesn't: The > problem continues. At first I though it might be somehow related to the fact > that the files I was adding were themselves "locked" PDF files, but when I > tried it with a few "ordinary" PDF files, the same thing happened. > > Rebooting didn't help. Trashing the app and its plist and reinstalling it > (not that there's much "installation" involved) didn't help either. > > Very frustrating. :( Have a look at PDFKey Pro at <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17114/pdfkey-pro>. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF |