[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

No, I had not heard of it until now. Seems reasonably priced compared
to the Adobe giant. Does it have an OCR facility built in? I would
like to download it and check it out further. However as the Reader is
not for free, I would not think my superiors would jump on it.

I can see that they have some support for embedded Linux. Why not the
full fledged Linux? As the users of Xover know, Linux users are happy
to pay for what really works when you don't have the free alternative.

Does it work with Xover?

How does it install? You know, Adobe does not support more than one
installation of an Acrobat family member on the same PC (Adobe Reader,
Acrobat Professional, Adobe Distiller). I wonder whether I would have
to uninstall the other packages? (Actually I am using Acrobat 6 and
Distiller 7 on my XP Pro machine at work without any serious
problems).

Bodvar

On 2/16/07, Bill <bill at sunsouthwest.com> wrote:
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> To:  (discuss at crossover.codeweavers.com)
> From: James E. LaBarre (jamesl at bestweb.net)
> Subject: Re: [cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...
> Date: 2/16/2007 11:10:27a
>
> > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> > > I understand, but if you have to revise such documents, I do not envy
> > > you. I have had to revise a lot of Word docs and many times you have
> > > to start from scratch and copy/paste the content or parts of it from
> > > the old file to the new. You even have to copy it into a text editor
> > > first to ensure that the text is clean.
> > >
> > > My choice has been FrameMaker. Even though it does not by default
> > > support things like form fields etc, you can add a lot of such things
> > > into it by adding some minor PostScript code (which you can do from
> > > within FM) and PDF it, which usually is the end format anyway.
> >
> > Would it be possible to output those PDFs as "fillable forms" though?
>
> Have you taken FoxIT for a test drive?
>
> Learn about it here:  http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
>
> With it installed as my default .PDF reader, once in a while Firefox will
> display a box about something-or-other (usually some sort of Javascript)
> needing a plug-in for FoxIT to be able to handle an on-line form. So far
> every time I've clicked 'okay, load it' it's gone ahead and worked okay.
>
> The most recent was Form 8913 on the IRS site - you know, the Federal
> Excise Tax refund they've been ordered to give us? Seems the generous
> IRS ''allowance'' if you don't have your old bills (that being $40 for two) is
> just a tad short. We actually should be getting $116 back. Took me about
> twenty minutes to add it up and make us another $76. Woohoo!
>
> Bill
>