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General Software Discussion / Re: Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?
« Last post by techidave on April 11, 2017, 06:23 AM »
I need to try out PDFexchange to see which version we would need.   Adobe Acrobat Pro cost us $155 US dollars...educational pricing.  Educational pricing for Foxit Pro was only a few dollars less.

pdfexchange is quite a bit less than both of the other ones. 

Evaluation copy here we come. 
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General Software Discussion / Re: Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?
« Last post by techidave on April 11, 2017, 06:19 AM »
I've used PDF XChange Editor for many years, but recently I got to also install Acrobat Pro, so I made it my default app, to try it out. I found I much prefer PDF XChange Editor.
-dr_andus (April 09, 2017, 04:38 PM)
Did you buy a pro version of PDF XChange Editor? I have a free version, and as far as I can tell, it can't do things like combine several pdf pages into one pdf file.  Can yours do that?  A friend keeps suggesting that I simply break down and buy Adobe Acrobat Pro. He claims it will do everything. I'm not a big Adobe fan, so I'd prefer to use alternatives, as long as I can do what I want. But for combining files, I wound up sending all the separate pdfs to him and he combined them with Adobe.  :(

-cyberdiva (April 10, 2017, 08:56 AM)

I am not an Adobe fan either.  Too much bloat and its hard for me to use when there are other solutions that are easier and cost much less, if not free.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?
« Last post by techidave on April 11, 2017, 06:16 AM »
We do receive pdfs that need editing.  Also there are some that are needing a signature and then returned via email to sender.

As I understand it, my administrator wants something that can create and edit our own documents.  She also would like to be able to edit other pdfs as well as place a signature on them.  As far as placing images on them, I do not know if she would do that or not. 

She does post some pdfs on the web.

One of my administrators asked me to look into getting her a software that can do this.  Of course, Acrobat was the first thing that came to my mind.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?
« Last post by techidave on April 11, 2017, 06:08 AM »
https://www.tracker-...t/pdf-xchange-editor
-wraith808 (April 09, 2017, 08:51 AM)

+1.

I've used PDF XChange Editor for many years, but recently I got to also install Acrobat Pro, so I made it my default app, to try it out. I found I much prefer PDF XChange Editor.

The only advantage I could find of Acrobat is that it seems to open files faster (or at least the app launches faster when you open the first file). But otherwise XChange is so much more user-friendly and customisable.
-dr_andus (April 09, 2017, 04:38 PM)

You mean there is an Adobe product that opens fast?  InDesign and Photoshop CS6 sure don't.
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General Software Discussion / Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?
« Last post by techidave on April 09, 2017, 06:19 AM »
My school is wanting to purchase Adobe Acrobat Pro.  They will only use it for creating, editing, and signing pdfs.  Is Acrobat the best piece of software for our needs?

Will probably only have 1 user at a time but would need more than 1 license and less than 5.  Windows version mostly with maybe 1 Mac,

I have looked at Foxit, Nitro, and some others.  With our Adobe educational pricing, their website pricing is not any cheaper than Adobe is.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: How to print a multiple page forum thread?
« Last post by techidave on March 13, 2017, 10:24 PM »
I am not a chrome browser fan but it does do a good job getting rid of the ads and banners when I want to print something.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Malwarebytes 3.0 out
« Last post by techidave on February 15, 2017, 05:53 AM »
Malwarebytes and Adwcleaner works well for me.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR updates ?
« Last post by techidave on February 03, 2017, 06:21 AM »
ditto for content searching.  :up:
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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Scratchpad - A simple way of recording notes, with autosave!
« Last post by techidave on December 31, 2016, 06:04 PM »
Screenshots would be awesome.  Sounds like a nifty tool.
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Living Room / Re: computer not recognizing scanner
« Last post by techidave on November 06, 2016, 07:33 AM »
Sorry guys, I thought I had already responded to this thread.

I did end up getting it to work on win 7, haven't tried it on win 10.  I changed the usb cable out with another one(new I believe) and it started working.

thanks for all the help and tips.

dave
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Living Room / computer not recognizing scanner
« Last post by techidave on November 02, 2016, 08:35 PM »
I have a Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner that I cannot get the computer to recognize.  I have tried it on 3 different model of computers, 2 different USB cable and all I get is "Unknown Device".  I have tried different USB ports too. 
I have tried different OSs, win 7 and 10 64 bit.  It was working on a win 10 computer that was upgraded from Win 7.  But unfortunately that computer bit the dust.

I have downloaded the latest drivers from the Epson site and also have used the Cd that came with the scanner. 

We also have a Epson Perefection V600 Photo Scanner with the same issues.

I can plug other USB devices like a mouse and it works fine.

any ideas?
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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for Sep 18, 2016 - Codename: Catching Up with Cody
« Last post by techidave on November 02, 2016, 07:46 PM »
my hat's off to you Mouser for doing the newsletter.  I figured it would take longer than 1 day to make it happen.

is the newsletter actually needed?  I mean is it something people have requested?

just wondering.

dave
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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla Thunderbird Cheatsheet
« Last post by techidave on October 31, 2016, 06:32 AM »
Good job Attronarch! 
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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for Sep 18, 2016 - Codename: Catching Up with Cody
« Last post by techidave on October 31, 2016, 06:27 AM »
out of idle curiosity Mouser, how long did it take to compile this newsletter?

dave
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General Software Discussion / Re: how should I roll back java?
« Last post by techidave on August 02, 2016, 05:49 AM »
You might try these uninstall instructions from JAVA.com       

Or download the Java uninstaller Here

Dave
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General Software Discussion / Re: how should I roll back java?
« Last post by techidave on July 31, 2016, 08:07 AM »
Revo Uninstaller??
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General Software Discussion / Re: Ransomware - stopping it before it encrypts
« Last post by techidave on June 24, 2016, 07:18 AM »
thanks for the link to the thread about it.  I must have missed this thread when I logged into my account.
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General Software Discussion / Ransomware - stopping it before it encrypts
« Last post by techidave on June 24, 2016, 06:30 AM »
while looking for a program that will stop ransomware from doing its dirtywork.  Or at least notify when it does find something.  I stumbled across this program CryptoMonitor

Has anyone used this or a similar program?

thanks
dave
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General Software Discussion / Re: ActivePresenter: most powerful Screen Recording free solution
« Last post by techidave on April 23, 2016, 07:08 AM »
I have tried Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and IE.  The homepage does not display correctly in my opinion.  Does anyone else have this problem?


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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?
« Last post by techidave on January 19, 2016, 09:18 PM »
Well, I thought so but wasn't sure about the tongue in cheek.  Still I felt the need to respond.


Thank you so much for not flaming me.  That's one of the things I like about this forum.  Most of the time, things are pretty calm.  But one thing is for sure, the help I have received over the years has been great!
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Living Room / Re: Why GOD has not updated the world ?
« Last post by techidave on January 19, 2016, 08:30 PM »
As Curt said, "move thread to basement (board)"

I believe the world as God made it has stayed the same since major events like Creation and the Flood.  Mankind has made most of the changes "trying to improve the world."  Looks like they have made a mess of things. No free updates from God are necessary.
God is not dead,  He is alive!
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Living Room / sort and filter
« Last post by techidave on January 14, 2016, 09:51 AM »
I am looking for a way to sort and filter items in a spreadsheet or maybe in a database.  What I am wanting to do is keep track of songs sung in church, how many times it was sung and what date(s) they were sung.  I will have a date in a row with the songs under it.  Then 7 days later will be another list of songs under the date.  Maybe something like this:

Jan 1
song a
song b
song c
jan8
song a
song d
song e
song c
and so on

now I can do this in a pivot table function in Excel 2010.  But I do not know how to keep jan1 and jan8 from showing.  Then I would have to delete those rows.

I am not familiar with databases at all.  I am looking for suggestions how I can make this work easliy.

Ideas?

Dave
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General Software Discussion / Re: restart switch
« Last post by techidave on December 21, 2015, 07:03 AM »
In some places I will have as many as 4 switches plugged into the UPS.  certainly not ideal, but the building was wired long before I went onboard.

The battery backups are there to protect them from power flickers and short power outages.  Most of the time, the power is out 1 to 2 hours.  Occasionally, which is not very often, the switches will need to be restarted after such an event.  While these switches are not 100% smart switches yet they are not dumb switches either.  They do take a little longer to boot than my totally dumb switches do. 

the power situation with the electric company has improved but it is not where I would like for it to be.  Cannot do much about that.
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General Software Discussion / Re: restart switch
« Last post by techidave on December 20, 2015, 10:13 PM »
They are Netgear Business Switches.  JGS524 and JGS524PE. These switches

not sure I understand you skwire.  but that's ok.  4wd, I hadn't thought of the low tech solutions, but that will be hard to do when they are plugged into a battery backup.

I do not have to restart them real often but they are scattered through out the building and didn't want to walk all over.  Some are quite high on the wall as well.

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General Software Discussion / restart switch
« Last post by techidave on December 20, 2015, 02:07 PM »
Is it possible to restart multiple IP network switches at once or by schedule?

Yes, I can restart them one by one using the web browser but that is time consuming.

Not having much luck searching Google.

open for suggestions?  Possible to do with coding snack?
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