Re: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:16:51 -0400 (EDT)
To be clear about this, we are talking about a program group that one
encounters on the Programs submenu of the Start Menu, not on its top
level.
Jamal
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> 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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