Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:07:18 -0700
From: The Elf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
no! what I am referring to is a section of the installer that is devoted
to
where the start menu's are placed in the menu's and sub menu's, and... an
additional item, a checkbox, unchecked by default, that says and does "do
not install start menu shortcuts"
hope that clears things up.
inthane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
>I assume you are referring to making the assignment of a system-wide
> shortcutkey optional, as is the case with the EdSharp, FileDir, and JSX
> installers. I've now made that change so it is also optional in the
> PDF2TXT installer (April 6 release).
>
> Jamal
>
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, The Elf wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:46:52 -0700
>> From: The Elf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
>>
>> Jamal,
>>
>> this reminded me of something I wanted to talk to you about, but got
>> distracted by other things.
>>
>> is it possible for you to add a checkbox in inno installers so you can
>> uncheck it and not install the start menu shortcuts.
>>
>> a couple reasons for this, as all of us on the blind programming list
>> know,
>> some folks insist on command line running, and may not even want start
>> menu
>> shortcuts.
>>
>> and my big reason is I customize my start menu but always (except when
>> upgrading one of those few applications that have this option) wind up
>> either arguing with the short cut selection dialog, or if its got the
>> check
>> box, I uncheck it and use the shortcuts I already manually moved to
>> where
>> I
>> wish them.
>>
>> hope you can provide this,
>> inthane
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <GUISpeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> <Program-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <UAccess-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:54 AM
>> Subject: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
>>
>>
>> > http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe
>> >
>> > PDF2TXT now uses an updated version of the QuickPDF library, which
>> > is
>> > commercially available at
>> > http://QuickPDF.com
>> >
>> > Several years worth of fixes and enhancements are incorporated in
>> > this
>> > library version compared to the previous one used. Although the
>> > source
>> > code to this and other tools used by PDF2TXT is not available, its
>> > own
>> > source code in the PowerBASIC language, PDF2TXT.bas, is now
>> > installed
>> > along with the executable.
>> >
>> > As before, the Image Format checkbox (Alt+F) is available for
>> > optical
>> > character recognition (OCR) -- using Google Tesseract technology --
>> > on
>> > image-based PDFs that elude text extraction methods. Due to
>> > technical
>> > issues, there is not a simple way of aborting an OCR process that
>> > has
>> > already started. This is now possible, however, via a work-around
>> > of
>> > launching another copy of PDF2TXT. It clears the deck during its
>> > startup
>> > phase. The Quit button (Alt+Q) may then be invoked to close either
>> > copy
>> > of the program (though no harm results from both being loaded).
>> >
>> > As Before the Grab URL button (Alt+G) gets the address of the
>> > current
>> > web
>> > page in Internet Explorer and sets it as the PDF source. This now
>> > works
>> > with versions of Internet Explorer above 6.0. The feature makes it
>> > easy
>> > to download and convert all PDFs linked to a web page.
>> >
>> > An additional hotkey is introduced: F11 for Elevate Version (like
>> > the
>> > EdSharp and FileDir programs). This checks whether a newer version
>> > of
>> > PDF2TXT is available, and offers to install it. The command makes
>> > future
>> > updates to the program particularly convenient to obtain.
>> >
>> > As before, the Extra HTML checkbox (Alt+X) uses a different
>> > conversion
>> > technology to produce a .htm conversion in addition to the .txt one.
>> > To
>> > further increase conversion options via this checkbox, it now also
>> > causes
>> > another technology to be used for producing the .txt file, using the
>> > PDFToText.exe utility that is also seperately available at
>> > http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html
>> > Thus PDF2TXT now incorporates three different .txt conversion
>> > methods,
>> > a
>> > .htm method, and an OCR one -- all of which are possible in a batch
>> > mode
>> > that processes every PDF in a directory. The program has become the
>> > most
>> > capable, free converter of PDFs available on Windows!
>> >
>> > Jamal
>> >
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