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General Software Discussion / Re: animated/flash graphs

« on: September 24, 2010, 11:12 AM »

there have been some truly beautiful tools for making flash animations for charts.. i can't remember any particular ones now, but there are a few that really produce stunning results.  i'm sure someone will remember the names of them.

-mouser (September 23, 2010, 05:11 PM)

please post some, I am in real need ASAP
thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: animated/flash graphs

« on: September 23, 2010, 03:45 PM »

the columns would be best to be in illustrated blue 3D like this:
http://www.free-power-point-templates.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/043_example.jpg

thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: animated/flash graphs

« on: September 23, 2010, 02:55 PM »

as the column of the graph will rise to reach the appropriate percentage (eg 49%, a number will change rapidly to count until the appropriate percentage

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General Software Discussion / animated/flash graphs

« on: September 23, 2010, 09:53 AM »

hello

can you tell me please where to find or how to create animated/flash column graphs? that I will embed in a PowerPoint slide and the columns will rise

thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« on: September 22, 2010, 12:18 PM »

I don't have a problem with price, if a program can do what I want

zooming an A4 PDF at 100% makes the PDF not to fill the whole 15" screen
and then taking a screenshot at that zoom, results in a small low resolution photo, it doesnt maximize the info that the graphics file can contain

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« on: September 21, 2010, 10:09 AM »

My point stands though: if you want to get the best quality image, copy it out of the pdf reader. You cannot expect the screenshot app to manipulate the pdf reader to give the best possible display - especially if the pdf reader itself cannot even do this.

-tomos (September 20, 2010, 05:32 PM)

let's say ok
now let's be a bit practical
what is the best time to copy in order to have the graphics in best quality? when pdf file is zoomed at 150% ? at 200 % ? at 300 % ?
at 400% graphics starts to pixelized
at 70% graphics starts is too small
...

on the other hand, as steveorg says, most pdf creators are focused on making the file smaller so the original image quality in the pdf might not be so good anyways...

-tomos (September 20, 2010, 05:32 PM)

this doesn't matter, I just want the best image quality in the pdf file, not the image quality of the initial graphics file

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« on: September 20, 2010, 04:46 PM »

This may depend on the file - but with adobe reader I just selected an image in a pdf (via drag + select the area around it, then "copy image" in the context menu). I was able to paste the image in Evernote and MS Paint.

-tomos (September 20, 2010, 04:16 PM)

this is screenshot capture tool, with the above mentioned disadvantages

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« on: September 20, 2010, 12:57 PM »

disadvantages of Screenshot Captor (and any other screenshot tool):

1) it captures the graphics not in the original/default resolution (if you zoom in/out the pdf, it will capture the graphics in different resolution) and this may result in a graphics without optimum resolution (too zoomed out may distort, too zoomed in may become unusable if you want it bigger)

2) it captures the graphics not in the original/default borders (since you drag the rectangular on your own) and this may result in a not well proportioned image

look this pdf editor how nice it recognizes and selects the image (see the blue borders):

but it cannot copy and paste in an MS Paint file! it cannot extract it!

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General Software Discussion / Re: references in PDF

« on: September 20, 2010, 10:11 AM »

neither any macro or script to do so? it would be so handy!

:S

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General Software Discussion / Re: photo editing help

« on: September 19, 2010, 09:05 AM »

thanks

I have any image with some colors including white, can you tell me please how convert the white to transparent, so that when I paste it in a MS Word document, the text behind it will show?

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General Software Discussion / Re: references in PDF

« on: September 19, 2010, 07:25 AM »

thanks but it's not about creating a PDF file or editing few of them

it is about being able to have that 'reference feature' in every PDF file I read

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General Software Discussion / references in PDF

« on: September 19, 2010, 04:49 AM »

hello

In PDF files, there are often reference numbers, which correspond to a reference at the bottom of the PDF file. These reference numbers appear as either superscript or a number inside parenthesis or brackets. Here is an example:

This appears at the first page of the PDF file:


This appears at the one before the last page of the PDF file:


is there a way to display the reference in a tooltip, when I hover over the reference number? or any other way to be able to see the reference AS I see the reference number, without having to scroll down and search for the reference?

thanks

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General Software Discussion / how to pick up colors

« on: September 17, 2010, 12:49 PM »

hello

can you tell me please the most accurate to pick up a color from screen, a graphics file, a screenshot, etc?

ie, to get the color code (RGB, etc) of a color in a file so that I can reproduce it

I have tested some color pickers that don't work well

thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« on: September 17, 2010, 10:33 AM »

-your first post after FIVE years' membership?!
Wow, you're not a man of too many words. Respect! 

-Curt (September 17, 2010, 10:27 AM)

that's an honour to post in my thread

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General Software Discussion / how to insert breaks in PowerPoint 2003 ?

« on: September 14, 2010, 07:48 PM »

hello

I use PowerPoint 2003 and I need to somehow seperate some text from another text and use different indents for each text

in Word 2003 this is done if you insert a line break or column break between the texts

but in PowerPoint 2003, I don't see Insert > Breaks menu

any idea?

thanks 

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General Software Discussion / photo editing help

« on: September 14, 2010, 05:40 PM »

hello

can anyone help me with Adobe Photoshop? or any other photo editor

I need to select specific colors/shapes in a photo, Photoshop's magic wand seems to does this, however I don't know how accurate is (does it leave needed pixels outside from selection?)

then I need to crop the selection or delete the non-selected area etc

how can I do these actions?

thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: September 14, 2010, 11:16 AM »

is there a translator that will search for the text under the cursor or the highlighted/selected text in a webpage dictionary that we have specified and show the result from there?

thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« on: September 14, 2010, 10:43 AM »

is there a free PDF editor/converter that works well? many converters fail to convert properly to doc, even Acrobat
if not, any paid one that is really good?

thanks

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General Software Discussion / extracting info from pdf

« on: September 12, 2010, 12:58 PM »

hello

I am starting to work with PDF files and I would like to extract a table and save it as a graphics file or as a MS Office table (not as Excel, because it has symbols, lines, etc, it is not only numerical data)

what is the best way to do this? I will incorporate it in a PowerPoint or MS Office document

I need it to be in the original quality

I also need not to use a crop tool, because I need the optimum margins, etc, is there a way to extract that table in the default way?

thanks

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Site/Forum Features / my posts

« on: July 27, 2010, 06:24 PM »

hello

can you put a link to 'my posts' in the front forum webpage, eg under the 'Show new replies to your posts' link

because now in order to see our posts (threads we 've participated in), we have to go to our profile and click 'Show the last posts of this person.'

unless there is a quicker way which I don't know...

thanks

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Double-click makes a new folder

« on: July 25, 2010, 07:53 PM »

;create folder by double clicking on empty space
IsOverTitleBarCaption(x, y, hWnd)
{
   SendMessage, 0x84,, (x & 0xFFFF) | (y & 0xFFFF) << 16,, ahk_id %hWnd%
   return (ErrorLevel == 2)
}

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quark Xpress

« on: July 25, 2010, 11:07 AM »

can you suggest me some good quality resources for templates, images, etc?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quark Xpress

« on: July 24, 2010, 08:15 PM »

I need to create leaflets for drugs and presentations

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quark Xpress

« on: July 24, 2010, 05:29 PM »

since I don't own any at the moment, which is more mainstream? Indesign or QuarkXpress?
also how many hours does one need to really learn them?
thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quark Xpress

« on: July 23, 2010, 03:46 PM »

it is for a supposed drug

- Is a leaflet like a flyer (one x  A4 or similar size double-sided-print) or multiple pages ?
- Multiple pages

- Is it going to be professionally printed?
- Yes

- Do you have Quark Express? What are your other options?
- I have it, I am not familiar with it, so I want to learn the best software for such job