http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:20:22 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001018.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001015.html Most of what I read for work these days is in PDF or Kindle format, and there's an awful lot of it. Trying to make sense out of the ever-faster firehose of information, most of it on subjects that are new to me, has forced me to rethink my research methods, or lack of them. I've never been able to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000833.html The other day I received a PDF file that need to be converted back to Word or text format. But every attempt to save it from Acrobat Pro to Word resulted in the error shown above: "Acrobat was unable to make this document accessible because of the following error: Could not save page structure. [12] Please not that some... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000735.html I was recently sent a document in PDF format for editing and revision. Unfortunately the author had protected the document from copying, pasting, annotation, page extraction - in short everything necessary to be able to edit the document on-screen. Since I was supposed to send the edited document back to the author, I knew it was unintentional. The revisions had... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000576.html Writing notes and sketching on PDF's using a Tablet PC can be an excellent replacement for a blackboard or whiteboard in the classroom, meetings or lectures. Easier than using Powerpoint, especially when you want to improvise, it is particularly useful for annotating complex diagrams, music, mathematical problems, or anything requiring gridlines or graph paper. On a Lenovo Tablet PC, you... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000550.html The case of the missing confirmation dialog A problem I've encountered several times on Vista: dialogs will open, then refuse to disappear, and the Windows Task Manager simply tells you they are "expecting a response". They are "expecting a response" from a confirmation dialog that has completely disappeared. This seems to happen when another window pops up and steals focus... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000172.html Links to PDF's can be made to target specific places in the document by appending a number/pound (#) sign to the end of the URL, followed by "page=[number]: Example: target page 10 http://server.com/title.pdf#page=10 Example: Target a named destination: http://server.com/title.pdf#destination_name Thanks to the PowerPoint FAQ for this tip. It is also possible to control what happens when the document opens -...