Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
I'm not understanding what problem that causes Why would someone not
want a program group on the Start Menu for a program they decided to
install?
Jamal
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, The Elf wrote:
> 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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