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Posted by Ken Ashworth
Dec 28, 2006 at 04:59 PM
Have you tried pdf995
it’s a three-program suite (The pdf995 suite of products - Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995) at $19.95.
I’ve mostly used it for creating pdf from Pagemaker v.6.5x, but have also used it with MS-Word - one template in particular was a form with numerous tables, converted w/o a problem. Also use it quite a bit to print from browser.
Later,
KenA
Posted by Graham Smith
Dec 28, 2006 at 07:42 PM
Ken,
>Have you tried pdf995
I have in the past, and I can’t remember the outcome, but I am aware of having had some issues with every PDF converter I have tried.
Most of the time all the programs work just fine, but now and again they don’t seem to like a graph, and if you are trying to pull together 20 Word files into a PDF reports catalogue, then it seems impossible to avoid some failures.
Thanks,
Graham
Posted by Derek Cornish
Dec 29, 2006 at 05:21 PM
Graham -
> I certainly decided it [askSam] was the easiest tool for putting together my “Information base”, except for it not working properly and the inability to import Excel tables.
That’s one of the purposes I had in mind, too.
> suspect its a combination of all of these things, plus as a company gets bigger it seems more and more difficult to continue providing the same service.
As Kenneth mentioned, some of the original players seemed to have regained some control over Citation, but I have seen absolutely no evidence of any improvement in support. The forums on askSam are closed for all practical purposes, and those on Oberon are inaccessible - the same position as when I last looked some months ago.
The bottom line seems to be that once a software company loses interest in its product it is well-nigh impossible to put things right - even if the original developers want to.
Derek
Posted by Graham Smith
Dec 29, 2006 at 06:10 PM
Derek
>The bottom line seems to be that once a
>software company loses interest in its product it is well-nigh impossible to put
>things right - even if the original developers want to.
All very sad, but it seems that way.
Graham
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 2, 2007 at 02:54 AM
Thanks for all the feedback. I resisted - this time…
Derek