[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[Bill]

Too much confusion there to deal with in one email

FoxIT is of course free, at least to try, and for personal use as long
as you want, just like Adobe's reader. If you want tools to do more
then just read .PDF then like with Adobe, you buy it.

But once you start going for more functionality, it would be best
to sit down and figure out exactly where it is you're going.

I didn't buy Crossover, I didn't buy FoxIT, and I didn't buy a
whole passel of other Linux apps. What I DID buy was Xandros
and those and a whole slew of others, including Sun Office,
came along with the package. Considering the less than $150
cost, seems to me like a real bargain, compared to anything ms
has to offer. Your mileage may vary.

I used to use Rad Hat at least in part because it bundled almost
everything I needed; now I use Xandros. Both just installed and
run without hassling me. I like that.

But for 'show-and-tell' I carry around Knopix discs, and give them
to anyone who seems serious about at least taking a look at the
thing that causes balmer and gates sleepless nights.

What seems to really amaze people is when Knopix comes up,
having found their internet connnection, and just works - no
screwing around at all on most hardwares (not state of the art
gaming machines, but then I figure those guys can afford to pay
the big bucks to be cutting edge, for the bragging rights)

I have no idea what happens in XP, and never will. When ms
said you gotta throw away perfectly good working stuff for no
other reason than to make them money, they lost me. I will not
be back. The more I learn about them and their business practices
the sicker I feel. And I honestly can not grasp how any woman
could ever put a nickle in gates pocket - he is one real dirt ball.
If he said to their faces what he thinks of them they would
probably traumatically de-nut him.

Bill



---------- Original Message ----------
To: Bill (bill at sunsouthwest.com)
From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson (bodvar at gmail.com)
Subject: Re: [cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...
Date: 2/17/2007 7:24:05a

> 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
> >