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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V3 Discussion

« Last post by ewemoa on November 16, 2013, 07:21 PM »

1. If FARR does add indexing then it would be useful to also make search results possible to detach into a separate window with column sorting (time created, filetype, filename, ...) where files can be bulk selected and operated on. Similar to how Everything works. Being able to add shortcuts to such "search views" could also be useful. The short cut would pop up a windows that show all files that match some (perhaps complex) FARR search formula.

-Nod5 (November 16, 2013, 11:37 AM)

Mmm!  Sounds nice

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on November 12, 2013, 05:16 AM »

I tried earmarking the first three entries in the bookmarks for Free as in Freedom 2.0.

The three things listed in the popup are (in order):

1.1
00v
vii

I expected to see:

v
vii
1.1

My bad -- tested with an older version.

What I see with 131108 is:

i5
i7
 i (preceded by space?)

For each case, the grey area of the popup shows:

v i5
vii i7
1.1 i


On a side note, just learned that there's a book on PDF from O'Reilly - Developing with PDF - Dive Into the Portable Document Format - with the following blurb:

PDF is becoming the standard for digital documents worldwide, but it’s not easy to learn on your own. With capabilities that let you use a variety of images and text, embed audio and video, and provide links and navigation, there’s a lot to explore. This practical guide helps you understand how to work with PDF to construct your own documents, troubleshoot problems, and even build your own tools.

Don't know much about it, but FWIW.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Phone 8 (lumia 920) vs. Android 4.4 Kitkat (Nexus 5)

« Last post by ewemoa on November 11, 2013, 04:27 AM »

Thanks for sharing your experiences

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on November 08, 2013, 05:09 PM »

Regarding page numbering in PDFs, I'd be noticing that the page number displayed on some PDFs didn't match what applications were displaying.  At some point, that lead to some digging in the specifications -- perhaps you are already aware, but FWIW there's a bit of somewhat introductory material about this at:

  http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/PDF17.html

(Relevant sections: Description and Example 2)

More details are in "12.4.2 Page Labels" in the PDF 1.7 spec it seems.


Haven't tested the new version yet but hope to -- must find appropriate PDF first

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V3 Discussion

« Last post by ewemoa on November 05, 2013, 09:01 PM »

If dreaming is allowed, off the top of my head in no particular order:

• Possibly source code to encourage 3rd party participation, ease burden of single individual, encourage certain kinds of design decisions, etc.
• Developed with tools freely available
• Cross-platform - at least also *NIX, but nice to also target WINE
• Improved multilingual support (e.g. sufficiently Unicode-aware)
• Near-full operation as a library and/or via command line (e.g. for use via 3rd party programs) - might encourage alternate GUIs to be developed

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Plugin Request: RSS Reader

« Last post by ewemoa on November 05, 2013, 08:50 PM »

If the author of the plugin sees this thread, may be he'll have some useful comments...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Plugin Request: RSS Reader

« Last post by ewemoa on November 04, 2013, 06:07 PM »

I don't remember the details clearly, but IIUC phitsc's FarrWebMetaSearch plugin does some portion of what was described.

Have you had a look at that?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on November 02, 2013, 07:13 AM »

Hmm.

Please consider changing the text that appears via the "how to use" menu item:

RightClick top right pdf corner = toggle earmark on|off for open pdf page

I believe reading that contributed to my expectation of the right-clicking working to set the first earmark even with no grey box.


...and I also hope the feature makes it into SumatraPDF

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Living Room / Re: Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps

« Last post by ewemoa on November 01, 2013, 08:19 PM »

Was reminded of the concern I felt when I encountered Intel vPro.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on November 01, 2013, 08:13 PM »

Feedback for v131101:

• Toggling off the earmark works with right-clicking (both for bookmarks showing and not).
• Toggling on an earmark works via the keyboard but if there is no grey earmark box showing (presumably because there are no earmarks yet) then right-clicking does not cause a blue earmark to appear (whether bookmarks are showing or not).  If a grey earmark box is showing, toggling via right-clicking seems to work.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 31, 2013, 07:20 PM »

An initial test produced results similar to before.

However, decided to try another PDF and the results were different.

An obvious difference between the tests was that for one the bookmarks view was showing and for the other it wasn't.

Toggling the bookmarks view off for the PDF I had been testing before gave different (successful) results.

Perhaps the visibility of the bookmarks view makes a difference?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 31, 2013, 06:35 AM »

Is the gray/blue square positioned over or to the left of the scrollbar? If to the left of the scrollbar, try doing a ctrl+right click the scrollbar up button instead. Does that cause the grid to display?

-Nod5 (October 31, 2013, 03:31 AM)

The earmark square appears to the left of the square with the up arrow (at the top of the scrollbar).

Tried ctrl-right-clicking the up arrow button/square, but no grid appeared.

FWIW, ordinary right-clicking the up arrow button/square didn't ultimately change the state of the earmark either.  (Ordinary right-clicking of the earmark box still causes the earmark box to disappear for a moment before reappearing.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 30, 2013, 11:20 PM »

I just tested with Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit (not as a guest OS) and SumatraPDF 2.4 with similar results:

• Control-right-click on earmark doesn't bring up a grid window
• Right-clicking the earmark behaves in the same ineffective way as described before

Curious.

I wonder if there is some pilot error...

FWIW, I've also duplicated the phenomena on another machine though there it was also via VirtualBox.  One host OS was Arch Linux while the other was Windows 7.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 30, 2013, 10:11 PM »

Maybe the bug only appears on earlier Sumatra versions?

-Nod5 (October 30, 2013, 12:15 PM)

Upgraded SumatraPDF here to 2.4, but at least under VirtualBox-XP there was no difference.  Will try to investigate testing under other conditions.

If there is at least one earmark then the grey square is shown all the time.

Aha -- good to know!

Here is version 131029b but with F4 added as a hotkey to open the grid, for testing:
http://nod5.dcmember...tra_earmarks--F4.zip

Thanks!  Was able to see the grid -- the numbers seem to show up fully now 

Also appreciate the simplicity of S_E -- thanks for the further thoughts regarding its design.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 29, 2013, 09:05 PM »

- I have no clue why neither the ctrl+rclick nor rclick commands works on your system. I see no problem in the code. I hope someone with a non-virtualbox Windows jumps in and test runs it too. That way we'll see if the issues are virtualbox-specific.
- a grid hotkey wouldn't be of use since the grid will need a mouse click to jump to an earmark anyway (no way to key navigate with the grid construction I've used).

-Nod5 (October 29, 2013, 06:49 PM)

I can appreciate the point about the non-mouse grid hotkey -- but its existence would help me to test as currently getting the grid to show up doesn't work here.

On second thought, is it not possible that one might want to just see the grid view but not click on it?  For example, to verify whether there are any earmarks or perhaps find out how many there are...

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 29, 2013, 07:12 PM »

Another data point - W7 via VirtualBox exhibits the same symptoms.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 29, 2013, 05:46 PM »

Some quick feedback for v1310129b (fresh install):

• So far control-right-clicking on the earmark box doesn't lead to a grid window appearing -- any chance of a (non-mouse-involved) hotkey to invoke this functionality?
• RIght clicking the earmark box hasn't toggled the earmark box state yet (both left and right clicking do make the box display grey temporarily before reverting) -- should it?
• Customizing of hotkeys via modifying the generated ini file works with a subsequent S_E restart -- how does the idea of an option to reload earmarks via its tray menu sound (or perhaps some kind of auto reloading based on ini file change...)?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to avoid creating/using a Microsoft Account when upgrading to Win 8.1

« Last post by ewemoa on October 29, 2013, 05:04 AM »

FWIW, though I have no first-hand experience with:

  https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux

I've heard that some of the hardware options listed have worked for some people.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 28, 2013, 07:56 PM »

Some quick results with v131028:

• full page numbers are seen via the "list of earmarks" window - still want a screenshot of old version in action?
• earmark box now appears to the left of the scrollbox

In my brief testing I noticed that clicking (left and right, and whether blue or grey) no longer toggles the earmark here -- though the shortcut key still works.


Haven't tried the customizing of the shortcut keys yet (hope to soon), but thanks for working on it!

What do you think about providing a sample shortcut key configuration file (to be renamed by user)?  Perhaps this might be useful because: 1) presumably the example would be one that worked, and 2) may be it might be easier for people to modify something than to create from scratch.


I neglected to mention that I'm trying via VirtualBox 4.3.x and SumatraPDF 2.3.2.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 27, 2013, 10:31 PM »

Tested with more success via XP SP3.

Tried all of the shortcut keys with success


In the test set up I see the little blue or grey rectangle covering the page-scrolling up arrow -- when I left click the square for a moment I see the scroll arrow and if I clickl soon enough the page scrolls a bit.  It doesn't seem easy to scroll by clicking on the up arrow while S_E is running.


Any chance of being able to configure the shortcut keys?  In my case I try not to have the Windows key be used for things outside of the system.


After control-right-clicking on the earmark square I see a little window with some numbers -- is there currently some way to tell which (if any) earmark might be closest to the page being currently displayed?

I think the page numbers are not being fully displayed here (e.g. for a two-digit page number I only fully see the first digit).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by ewemoa on October 27, 2013, 02:49 AM »

Supposedly no restart required either -- though a bit complex-seeming after first installation.

-ewemoa (October 26, 2013, 09:37 AM)

Not really, you click on the icon in the Addon bar and then select when you want to have that sites cookies terminated, (or not).

-4wd (October 27, 2013, 12:44 AM)

Well, being presented with a new browser window with a fair bit of text to go through counts as seemingly-complex to me -- even if it doesn't turn out to be complex

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: sumatra_earmarks

« Last post by ewemoa on October 26, 2013, 09:53 PM »

Was able to create a single earmark but a subsequent creation attempt lead to a crash of SumatraPDF -- but this was under Wine.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 - New Apps for the New Year - Welcome Thread

« Last post by ewemoa on October 26, 2013, 08:59 PM »

I've not found a simple utility to remove PDF attachments.  May be this is worth considering?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: SoloCrop

« Last post by ewemoa on October 26, 2013, 06:12 PM »

That is a nifty-looking device!

What I thought I saw in that video was the bit about scanning multiple name cards at the same time -- that does seem applicable.


Thanks also for the pointer to OpenCV, am intending to take a look.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: SoloCrop

« Last post by ewemoa on October 26, 2013, 05:17 PM »

Any chance of a similar tool that tries to automatically detect "rectangles" and crop each of those results into individual results?