You can edit PDFs as long as they aren't password protected, where you don't know the password.
You can use Acrobat, which was designed specifically for this... or use Illustrator which often mangles the text flow... or use several other apps which do a less than hoped for job but for small edits are just fine.
PDF isn't competely a binary format. It includes plain text and embedded images and lots of available formatting options which can be read and interpretted for tools to manipulate.
Acrobat is of course the best option as it and PDF are Adobe.
Maybe someone will take it upon themselves to reverse engineer PDF OpenPDF or some such and implement it so it converts to SVG or another open standard.
Almost a 10 year anniversary.... august 24th 2002 Apple releases Jaguar and Quartz Extreme which raises the standard of GUIs and raises a middle finger at Microsoft.
Yeah, this is where the idea of Frameworks comes in. Everyone includes their required libraries in to a Framework and then redundancies are weeded out and all the apps use the same libraries.
When a new library comes in it is treated the same way... break it up and divide it into the appropriate Framework then merge any new stuff and weed out redundant stuff. Proprietary stuff and Open stuff can both work off shared libs in the Framework for standard services and add in exclusive stuff as a new lib in the Framework.
The problem with browser based apps is the 'jack of all trades' paradigm. Add to that the inherent creation of security nightmares.
All apps WILL on the other hand eventually take advantage of OS level internet 'services' via SOAP/XML/RPC type of protocols. Browsers aren't really all that cool anyways. I would much prefer an app using connectivity to the network in a focused and specifically useful manner, rather than an open ended 'it can do anything' manner.
That is where Microsoft got in to trouble with viruses. Every app they made was suddenly exposed to all security holes and viruses/worms had access to all the capabilities in the system and because it was embedded functionality they had and are still having a devil of a time cleaning it all up.
Where do you live that $200 is almost a month's rent?
that seems quite incredible in this inflated world we live in... I'm living at home with the family for a few months and I still pay more for my room.
When I was renting a single apartment it was more like $1200 a month. Yeah, I'm saving a lot so I can get in to the market when it hits bottom later this year.
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My computer doesn't even come with a 3.25" floppy drive or serial ports or hmmm... that's about it, it has everything else, oh wait no PS/2 ports either or 9 pin or serial bus... it doesn't even come with Windows! Talk about a machine of the future... ah I love my Mac.
It would be much better if it went around to all the Windows servers out there and did the same. Add in all the outlook clients and exchange servers and you've truly worked a miracle.
So you consider ZeroConf ipV6 tech 'virtually nothing'? How about full OpenGL Operating System level hardware display acceleration? Bluetooth multi-device portable and peripheral Synchronization?
You must have been watching/reading about it from the lowest level of ignorance possible.
anyways... enough trolling.
This is definitely a good story to see on/. though there have been thousands of others in the past.
I may be preaching to the unconverted or the converted because it doesn't matter.
When did it become everyone's god given right to have free e-mail? (although Apple will still give you free e-mail just no free iDisk or free HomePage, etc.)
Are there any other providers of free e-mail without obnoxious ads everywhere? not to my knowledge.
You don't have to pay for anything. you don't even have to upgrade to 10.2, though you'll be laughed at by your peers for having ignored the best new technology ever to have come out of any OS provider.
Why does everyone figure they deserve a free ride? OSS is wonderful, i use it every day, but I also contribute back to the community. Do you?
Linux and other OSS solutions aren't out there for leeches, they are out there for contributers. The reason they are free is to entice new contributors and reward old hats by improving on what they started, to the benefit of everyone.
"I for sure am not giving you that address, as I do not want your spam into that address - not any more"
Guess you're not as in to the free exchange of information as you proclaim... hypocrisy at it's finest ladies and gentlemen.
BTW if you don't want that mac.com address to close take another look at your account site in a couple of weeks and sign up for the free e-mail service that will be available, well before the for fee service takes over.
People with Macs are going to be even hapier with their speeds with the addition of the Quartz Extreme GPU integration.
if i understand it correctly QE will essentially add the GPU's processing power to the CPU for all graphics/video rendering tasks. So add 200 - 300 mhz of processing power to the minimum 800 mhz of a new mac and you're definitely seeing some good numbers.
This won't be helping your seti numbers much but for user interactive applications you should see great performance.
I wonder how much it would have cost them if they'd unwittingly used someone else's copyrighted code from a proprietary source. I don't see any difference here. GPL is a copyright just like any other.
GPL never says that it's free as in beer. You can't just use someone's hard work and expect not to pay for it somehow... GPL just says that your payment comes in the form of community service... ie: give back to the community that gave to you.
If it's not on TechTV then how will it be broadcast to the Apple Stores? Will they use Quicktime 6/MPG4 or does every Apple have a closed circuit link to some here-to-fore unknown Apple fibre link?
Any ideas? If they don't use the QT6 streaming server with a dedicated server for each Store what are good alternative technologies for this sort of broadcast/multi-cast/point-to-point 'single-cast'?
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is that suppoed to be sarcasm or do you really think/. is a Linux Users Group forum?
More than 95% of the stories posted here have nothing to do with Linux... newbie?
they want to make a little bit of money with no regard to their reputation in a global economy.
It always disturbs me when I realize the sheer volume of pron and the number of potentially interesting people who may very well have ruined any chance that they will do anything worthwhile... for %5,000.00... a pittance, a trifling amount, one-third of a decent raise, the price of a car 5 ft. in the grave, etc. and in other words --not much---.
I'd think mostly conservatism... custom programs with a very finite purpose running their tasks as efficiently as necessary without... and this seems most important: unnecessary POWER consumption.
That last part looks to be a clincher in a completely and utterly isolated and self sustaining environment... obviously us earth-bound electricity suckers are considerably spoiled.. barring more SoCal brown-outs this summer;-p
"it seems like it is providing the basic research for Astronaut emergency reentry technology."
I would agree with you if I didn't think that any sort of 'extra-vehicular' (even with these 'escape pods') would seriously be a 'fatally' flawed excercise in futility.
On the other hand this tech could be used very successfully in future Moon/Mars/other 'in-atmosphere' landings (I'm not confident about the whole high-heat re-entry via invlatable device technique from out of atmosphere orbit).
Also i don't think this is intended for astronauts or cosmonauts but is intended for robotic probes, etc. which require an unmanned and at least 5 of 9's landing success rate.
" Russia should be commended for trying a cool idea. reusing ICBM's and creating cheap spacecraft seems like a good idea...Too bad"
Yep and they gotta do 'something' with all those missile/rockets they built during the cold-war... what else are they going to do but strive for an economically appealing and viable use. The US should pay attention, especially at the rate that we obsolete our own National Defense Technology.
If you read the full article you would have found out that it is only 3 feet 'Un-Inflated' and inflates to 13 feet:
" Demonstrator-2 is small in size -- the folded-up vehicle measures less than 3 feet in diameter making it the most compact space vehicle ever made. However, its ability to inflate two thermo-proof panels it carries to up to 13 feet provides for aerodynamic breaking, which can reduce the craft's speed by nearly a thousand times."
Add to that the potentially rational conclusion that this may only be used for inorganic/non-sentient payloads and it starts to make more sense.
It would be nice if Slashdot would leverage it's community and reader base into an effective first-hand account news source. The potential is definitely there... motivation and/or purpose seems lacking though.
Could be a result of being a subsidiary of VALinux/parent company instead of part of a larger media co.
I think we's all love it if/. became something like the Routers service or even like the BBC.
Vision:
Politically neutral tech and tech related news/media/public forum. It is all of these things already but doesn't take itself seriously... and that very well could be a Good(TM) thing.
"Earlier, Babakin Space Center spokeswoman Lidia Avdeyeva confirmed the landing, but efforts to locate the vehicle so far have failed to bear fruit, TVS reported."
They may be covering for their short-sightedness, etc though so who knows. I suppose it depends on how high the inflatable re-entry device was released and what sort of protection it had to re-entry forces/temp. I thought of this as a problem with the concept when I first heard about it.
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" Win-Win-Win. "
That should be "Mac-Sun-Mac"
You can edit PDFs as long as they aren't password protected, where you don't know the password.
You can use Acrobat, which was designed specifically for this... or use Illustrator which often mangles the text flow... or use several other apps which do a less than hoped for job but for small edits are just fine.
PDF isn't competely a binary format. It includes plain text and embedded images and lots of available formatting options which can be read and interpretted for tools to manipulate.
Acrobat is of course the best option as it and PDF are Adobe.
Maybe someone will take it upon themselves to reverse engineer PDF OpenPDF or some such and implement it so it converts to SVG or another open standard.
Almost a 10 year anniversary.... august 24th 2002 Apple releases Jaguar and Quartz Extreme which raises the standard of GUIs and raises a middle finger at Microsoft.
heheheh... _|_
Yeah, this is where the idea of Frameworks comes in. Everyone includes their required libraries in to a Framework and then redundancies are weeded out and all the apps use the same libraries.
When a new library comes in it is treated the same way... break it up and divide it into the appropriate Framework then merge any new stuff and weed out redundant stuff. Proprietary stuff and Open stuff can both work off shared libs in the Framework for standard services and add in exclusive stuff as a new lib in the Framework.
The problem with browser based apps is the 'jack of all trades' paradigm. Add to that the inherent creation of security nightmares.
All apps WILL on the other hand eventually take advantage of OS level internet 'services' via SOAP/XML/RPC type of protocols. Browsers aren't really all that cool anyways. I would much prefer an app using connectivity to the network in a focused and specifically useful manner, rather than an open ended 'it can do anything' manner.
That is where Microsoft got in to trouble with viruses. Every app they made was suddenly exposed to all security holes and viruses/worms had access to all the capabilities in the system and because it was embedded functionality they had and are still having a devil of a time cleaning it all up.
Where do you live that $200 is almost a month's rent?
that seems quite incredible in this inflated world we live in... I'm living at home with the family for a few months and I still pay more for my room.
When I was renting a single apartment it was more like $1200 a month. Yeah, I'm saving a lot so I can get in to the market when it hits bottom later this year.
My computer doesn't even come with a 3.25" floppy drive or serial ports or hmmm... that's about it, it has everything else, oh wait no PS/2 ports either or 9 pin or serial bus... it doesn't even come with Windows! Talk about a machine of the future... ah I love my Mac.
It would be much better if it went around to all the Windows servers out there and did the same. Add in all the outlook clients and exchange servers and you've truly worked a miracle.
Just to be a troll...
/. though there have been thousands of others in the past.
So you consider ZeroConf ipV6 tech 'virtually nothing'? How about full OpenGL Operating System level hardware display acceleration? Bluetooth multi-device portable and peripheral Synchronization?
You must have been watching/reading about it from the lowest level of ignorance possible.
anyways... enough trolling.
This is definitely a good story to see on
I may be preaching to the unconverted or the converted because it doesn't matter.
When did it become everyone's god given right to have free e-mail? (although Apple will still give you free e-mail just no free iDisk or free HomePage, etc.)
Are there any other providers of free e-mail without obnoxious ads everywhere? not to my knowledge.
You don't have to pay for anything. you don't even have to upgrade to 10.2, though you'll be laughed at by your peers for having ignored the best new technology ever to have come out of any OS provider.
Why does everyone figure they deserve a free ride? OSS is wonderful, i use it every day, but I also contribute back to the community. Do you?
Linux and other OSS solutions aren't out there for leeches, they are out there for contributers. The reason they are free is to entice new contributors and reward old hats by improving on what they started, to the benefit of everyone.
"I for sure am not giving you that address, as I do not want your spam into that address - not any more"
Guess you're not as in to the free exchange of information as you proclaim... hypocrisy at it's finest ladies and gentlemen.
BTW if you don't want that mac.com address to close take another look at your account site in a couple of weeks and sign up for the free e-mail service that will be available, well before the for fee service takes over.
People with Macs are going to be even hapier with their speeds with the addition of the Quartz Extreme GPU integration.
if i understand it correctly QE will essentially add the GPU's processing power to the CPU for all graphics/video rendering tasks. So add 200 - 300 mhz of processing power to the minimum 800 mhz of a new mac and you're definitely seeing some good numbers.
This won't be helping your seti numbers much but for user interactive applications you should see great performance.
"i personly think if this new proccessor takes off ibm should get into the ocnsumer processer market."
They are in a limited fashion... Apple anyone? Now with new refreshing afertaste and a crisp crunch.
I wonder how much it would have cost them if they'd unwittingly used someone else's copyrighted code from a proprietary source. I don't see any difference here. GPL is a copyright just like any other.
GPL never says that it's free as in beer. You can't just use someone's hard work and expect not to pay for it somehow... GPL just says that your payment comes in the form of community service... ie: give back to the community that gave to you.
If it's not on TechTV then how will it be broadcast to the Apple Stores? Will they use Quicktime 6/MPG4 or does every Apple have a closed circuit link to some here-to-fore unknown Apple fibre link?
Any ideas? If they don't use the QT6 streaming server with a dedicated server for each Store what are good alternative technologies for this sort of broadcast/multi-cast/point-to-point 'single-cast'?
is that suppoed to be sarcasm or do you really think /. is a Linux Users Group forum?
More than 95% of the stories posted here have nothing to do with Linux... newbie?
I always heard they were in to really small 'devices'.... i guess small could equate to 'fast' regarding performance... ;-p
It all has to do with the the available real estate in Japan AFAIK, and the insane pricing of such.
they want to make a little bit of money with no regard to their reputation in a global economy.
It always disturbs me when I realize the sheer volume of pron and the number of potentially interesting people who may very well have ruined any chance that they will do anything worthwhile... for %5,000.00... a pittance, a trifling amount, one-third of a decent raise, the price of a car 5 ft. in the grave, etc. and in other words --not much---.
Tell that to this guy who made an XP skin for OS X.
Seems like the grass really does look greener on the other side.
I'd think mostly conservatism... custom programs with a very finite purpose running their tasks as efficiently as necessary without... and this seems most important: unnecessary POWER consumption.
That last part looks to be a clincher in a completely and utterly isolated and self sustaining environment... obviously us earth-bound electricity suckers are considerably spoiled.. barring more SoCal brown-outs this summer;-p
"it seems like it is providing the basic research for Astronaut emergency reentry technology."
I would agree with you if I didn't think that any sort of 'extra-vehicular' (even with these 'escape pods') would seriously be a 'fatally' flawed excercise in futility.
On the other hand this tech could be used very successfully in future Moon/Mars/other 'in-atmosphere' landings (I'm not confident about the whole high-heat re-entry via invlatable device technique from out of atmosphere orbit).
Also i don't think this is intended for astronauts or cosmonauts but is intended for robotic probes, etc. which require an unmanned and at least 5 of 9's landing success rate.
" Russia should be commended for trying a cool idea. reusing ICBM's and creating cheap spacecraft seems like a good idea...Too bad"
Yep and they gotta do 'something' with all those missile/rockets they built during the cold-war... what else are they going to do but strive for an economically appealing and viable use. The US should pay attention, especially at the rate that we obsolete our own National Defense Technology.
If you read the full article you would have found out that it is only 3 feet 'Un-Inflated' and inflates to 13 feet:
" Demonstrator-2 is small in size -- the folded-up vehicle measures less than 3 feet in diameter making it the most compact space vehicle ever made. However, its ability to inflate two thermo-proof panels it carries to up to 13 feet provides for aerodynamic breaking, which can reduce the craft's speed by nearly a thousand times."
Add to that the potentially rational conclusion that this may only be used for inorganic/non-sentient payloads and it starts to make more sense.
It would be nice if Slashdot would leverage it's community and reader base into an effective first-hand account news source. The potential is definitely there... motivation and/or purpose seems lacking though.
/. became something like the Routers service or even like the BBC.
Could be a result of being a subsidiary of VALinux/parent company instead of part of a larger media co.
I think we's all love it if
Vision:
Politically neutral tech and tech related news/media/public forum. It is all of these things already but doesn't take itself seriously... and that very well could be a Good(TM) thing.
According to the article:
"Earlier, Babakin Space Center spokeswoman Lidia Avdeyeva confirmed the landing, but efforts to locate the vehicle so far have failed to bear fruit, TVS reported."
They may be covering for their short-sightedness, etc though so who knows. I suppose it depends on how high the inflatable re-entry device was released and what sort of protection it had to re-entry forces/temp. I thought of this as a problem with the concept when I first heard about it.