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The Cow YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 2530 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Programming & User Guides - Acrobate Reader Reply #15 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 12:44pm	Print Post
	Yeah - another advantage for Linux over Windoze: mostly everything is free. There is another Linux utilty: "pdftops", that converts PDF to Postscript. It has has an "-expand" command line option, that will increase the page's contents to fit the specified page size: Code pdftops -paper letter -expand "Sesame Programming Guide.pdf" output.ps I have no idea if there is a precompiled version for DOS/Win. I'm not sure if this is really what Spencer wants. Either of these approaches will only increase the size of the content on the page. They won't decrease the number of pages, increase the amount of content on each page, or repaginate.

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Don Haley Member Offline No personal text Posts: 38 Location: Plymouth, Devon, UK Joined: Jan 23^rd, 2004	Re: Programming & User Guides - Acrobate Reader Reply #16 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 1:53pm	Print Post
	Thankyou GW, I have just tried your suggestions and it works very well, you can even increase the size of the fonts if you so wish and as you say decreases the amount of paper. Don


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Bob_Hansen Senior Member Members Offline WOW, They have the Internet on computers now! Posts: 1861 Location: Salem, NH Joined: Nov 24^th, 2002	Re: Programming & User Guides - Acrobate Reader Reply #17 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 3:52pm	Print Post
	Hmmm ..... it just occured to me, that if you do repaging, then all of the Table of Contents and Index references will need to be updated also. Too much work!

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SpencerWulwick Senior Member Members Offline Posts: 677 Location: Wilton Manors, Florida Joined: Jan 16^th, 2005	Re: Programming & User Guides - Acrobate Reader Reply #18 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 6:14pm	Print Post
	Gary - I received the word document you sent and want you to know how very much I appreciate your efforts. Unfortunately, there are a lot of drawbacks. One (as Bob mentioned) is that the table of contents is no longer valid. Another thing I noticed is that the page numbers that were at the bottom of the page were moved to the top of the next page. Reducing the number of pages is not an issue for me so, once again, for the index to work, I would rather have the same number of pages. Also, in the Word document, none of the images are there. Sooooo, I guess I'll have to hope that, at some point, the manuals are somehow made available in larger font. I believe that the magnification on my glasses, has gone just about as far as it can go. lol One thing I did notice though is that the viewer on the PDF file is very nice. And, I hadn't realized, till now, that you can do a 'search' within the PDF document itself. So, I may just have to teach myself to use the manual on-screen, until there is a better solution.

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Carl Underwood Senior Member Members Offline Posts: 1350 Location: New Hampshire Joined: Mar 11^th, 2003	Re: Programming & User Guides - Acrobate Reader Reply #19 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 6:46pm	Print Post
	Quote: One thing I did notice though is that the viewer on the PDF file is very nice. �...you can do a 'search' within the PDF document itself. For what it's worth, this is the way I have always used the manuals. I can search and find things in a flash, rather than flipping back-and-forth through the pages manually, and I can search for things that simply aren't listed in the index. (I have only opened the paper manuals once or twice.) Two more benefits of the electronic manuals: 1) You can search ALL the manuals and supplements at once with the "All PDF Documents in" option just below the search field. 2) You can copy sample code from the PDF to paste into Designer's Program Editor. Edit: 3) And of course, you can zoom in to make the text as large as you need to for reading it.

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GW Junior Member Offline No personal text Posts: 83 Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: Programming & User Guides - Acrobate Reader Reply #20 - Mar 20^th, 2005 at 7:38pm	Print Post
	Spencer, I agree, theres too many drawbacks to doing this. Myself, I prefer to use the PDF document for the reasons that you realized and from Carl's comments. I was just showing a short way to get around your problem. The images must have stripped out when i sent that file as I have them in tact. Now with a little bit of playing you can re-create a PDF doc and re-index but who the heck would want to


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