[@– bill] wrote to [@Peter Blaise] “… you’ve been pretty consistently dyspeptic recently …”
[@Peter Blaise] replied “… If you are thinking of the Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor fiasco with your “dyspeptic” assessment, compared to other’s comments – unless you think most of us were “dyspeptic”, because most comments noted problems – I’m just being detailed and specific, I’m just being a full participant in these SOS threads, AND I offered alternatives to our fellow SOS participants, AND I offered suggestions for the vendor to overcome their own roadblocks … I still have not seen it working on-screen yet … maybe someday, maybe someday. I actually thought the Soft-Xpansion episode was funny. Thanks for exploring this and sharing …”
[@– bill] replied “… As for Perfect PDF (which was hardly the first recent instance of your dyspepsia), now that I’ve read all the comments there in detail my suspicion is that the only problem people had with following the relatively simple SoS installation instructions was that they did not include the warning that while Microsoft’s File Manager presents the content of .zip files as if they were in a normal sub-directory the contents DO NOT ACT as if they were in a normal sub-directory hence if you execute the setup.exe file inside the .zip (or after extracting only it from the .zip) it does not see the rest of the content of the .zip which may be required for the installation to succeed. I now see that @Gary made that clear before your first response to him (and before I made the same observation later). Were you too righteously indignant to bother reading them? If so, your earlier statement “If anyone here can share how they got it working, great … what, nobody can share how they got it working, oh my” strikes me as downright incompetent given that @Gary had already done precisely that. All in all, hardly a good advertisement for the wisdom of crowds …”
[@Peter Blaise] replied “… Oh [@– bill], no, [ @Gary] did not say how he got Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor working, only that it worked, and only later claimed to also try email authentication, which I complimented him on for getting 2 installs on 1 free/purchase reciept, in spite of Soft-Xpansion trying to clamp down on excess installations; the problems others and I had were not ZIP file related, as much as we were experiencing blocked registration screens where Soft-Xpansion’s own program said that it could not phone home, and that was well after successful installation, well after successful use of the installation resources provded in the ZIP file, we all discovered the amazing and unique happenstance of successful installation of a program that will not even work as a trial, a program that demands to register or exit, but since it can’t register, it exits, so we all had successful installations that would not even come on screen to see how the program works, we then shared that it was a waste of time to install something that would not even let us see and try anything inside the program, hence our references to alternatives, and our call to skip Soft-Xpansion as essentially NRFPTY, Not Ready For Prime Time Yet – Nerf Putty. While I appreciate your apparently directive feedback on my posts ( “dyspeptic“, “dyspepsia“, seriously? “… a persistent or recurrent pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen due to the inability to digest something eaten …” … okay, maybe there’s an analogy there to Soft-Xpansion’s program and policy being an indigestible pain for our computers and for ourselves ), why not participate in any thread and instead write about the software under review? Oh, no one actually did that for Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor. I do not wonder why …”
… and still no discussion of our experience of Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor features and benefits, which I can not offer since it still has yet to appear on any of my computer screens.
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