RE: Reading Ebooks with Adobe

  • From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:49:49 -0400

Textpad was written by Jamal Mazrui. His webpage is
www.empowermentzone.com

however, there is no direct link or anything mentioned about textpal on that
page that I can find.
Roy


-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:01 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Reading Ebooks with Adobe

I dare say it would be. Nonetheless, the download we got is a direct
link.  Guess the sender thought it would save time.  I swear Tom and
Becky are still lost on some of the Web sites I've visited over the
years.  I'm sure the vendor has a Web site, if I only knew who that is.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:49 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reading Ebooks with Adobe


I'm busy right now so I haven't gotten around to googling text pal, but
are
you saying it's unlikely that I'll find any written information about it

anywhere? There isn't even a Web site where it's explained, described,
and
so forth? Wouldn't that be a bit odd?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: Reading Ebooks with Adobe


The URL sends you directly to the download link for the product. I
gather the documentation is included, but have not actually installed
the program yet.  Back in the day, I was a real experimenter, and
enjoyed trying out shareware and freeware.  However, totally eradicating
unwanted programs in every OS since 95 is more trouble than it should
be, so I now think several times before I install anything.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:25 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reading Ebooks with Adobe


Benjamin,
thanks for stepping in. But all I was even interested in was a link to
go
somewhere to *read* about Text Pal, and I'm sure I would have found the
link
for downloading it, once I was at such a place. Meantime, I'm still not
sure
what on earth was going on here. When I clicked on a link someone
provided,
which I thought would be a link to a Web site with simply some info
about
Text Pal, I was confronted with a Windows message asking me to be sure
if I
wanted to download a program. I didn't even try to find out what program
I
apparently was asking to download. I just hit Escape, because I was so
surprised.
Now, if you reread what Nicole wrote to me, she did *not* simply type a
P
instead of a T. What she said was this:

> ----
> HI yardbird
> I suggested pay pal. The link you clicked on will download pay pal.
> Unlike other text editors, you can open pdf documents with pay pal. It
> will convert the pdf file to text.  Its very handy   for me to use pay
> pal as I can never open a pdf document with jaws. Each time I open a
pdf
> document, jaws freezes so much that  I have to reboot.
> If I understand the pay pal manual correctly, you can even write
> programs in pay pal but I speak under correction.
>

-- So you see, she substituted the word Pay for the word Text,
repeatedly. I
couldn't make the mental leap to imagine how someone would confused Text
Pal
and Pay Pal. It was just a little too extreme, the difference, so I
simply
got confused.

Also, what does it mean "to speak under correction?" Is this a generally

British or perhaps specifically South African way of saying "I may be
wrong?"  Also, I have no trouble using Adobe Reader and Jaws to read
.pdf
files. I believe Nicole when she says it troubles her system, but this
isn't
anything I would have thought of. But I guess that's irrelevant to this
particular misunderstanding.

Again, I had not asked anyone for a link to download anything, in the
first
place. I just wanted to know where to go and read about the program.
Just
read. I'm sure I could find the link to download it if I wished to. As
for
Text Pal resembling Pay Pal, I don't know what to say. But it's all
right,
now. I'll just google text pal and find the site where the information
is,
so I can read about it.

Also, I don't understand talking about opening a .pdf file with a text
editor. I never open a .pdf file with Word, for instance, or Notepad, or

WordPad. I open it with Adoobe Reader, as you're supposed. And then Jaws

allows me to read it. I have no idea what is meant by talking about
trying
to open a .pdf file with a text editor. I'm totally confused. Someone
please
say you understand now!hat on earth does it mean
Thanks.

yardbird (as opposed to Bluebird or Jailbird) :-)




From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <bhawkeslewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: Reading Ebooks with Adobe


Nicole mistyped TextPal with a T (the free text editor) as PayPal with a
P (the online payment system). That's the source of the confusion.

You can download TextPal with a T from:

http://www.empowermentzone.com/palsetup.exe

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 00:13 -0700, Yardbird wrote:
> Nicole,
>
> Hello. Look, I'm familiar with Pay Pal, and I'm signed up with Pay
Pal. I
> have no idea what any of this was about. I simply asked someone what
that
> text editor was, and he told me. But for some reason, someone's
telling me
> to sign up with Pay Pal and buy something I haven't even researched,
yet?
> Am
> I misunderstanding someone?
> From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <NOosthuizen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:36 PM
> Subject: RE: Reading Ebooks with Adobe
>
>
>
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> ----
> HI yardbird
> I suggested pay pal. The link you clicked on will download pay pal.
> Unlike other text editors, you can open pdf documents with pay pal. It
> will convert the pdf file to text.  Its very handy   for me to use pay
> pal as I can never open a pdf document with jaws. Each time I open a
pdf
> document, jaws freezes so much that  I have to reboot.
> If I understand the pay pal manual correctly, you can even write
> programs in pay pal but I speak under correction.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Yardbird
> Sent: 02 April 2007 07:31 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Reading Ebooks with Adobe
>
> jerry,
> Curious to see what you were pointing me to, I clicked on the link you
> provided below, only to be met by a Windows dialogue asking my
> permission to
> download something or other, even as I heard the status line giving a
> play-by-play of a Web page loading. I was so surprised I just hit
Escape
> and
> got out of there, which seemed to cancel whatever was going on,
because
> my
> browser isn't even launched, now, though it seemed to begin launching
> when I
> clicked on the link.
>
> Weird. Couldn't you just tell me in a few words what this text editor
> stuff
> is about? When you have a couple of minutes? If not, fine, but my
> question
> was conversational, not indication that I wanted to embark on research
> of
> some kind. Thanks.--
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