Thanks, [@Gary] … I think.
No, Soft-Xpansion does not identify a computer associated with a license or email, that was the challenge, I resolved that at least once, and got Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor working on screen, at least once, in spite of Soft-Xpansion’s inabilities to have that happen immediately on first installation attempt.
Soft-Xpansion is the ONLY impediment to successful installation, as testified to by the direct experience of myself and others.
“… it just won’t work …” in a little bit of context: “… I told folks to rip it out instead of TRYING to get it to work, because it does install, it just won’t work, not even in trial mode, so why bother, especially when the vendor doesn’t care, as exhibited in their “take it off the discussion thread and email us instead” – no, I only do things in public on the discussion board in plain and inclusive view of everyone else, that’s what a discussion board is for …” … correct, Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor just won’t work, not even in trial mode, if it cannot phone home during installation, full sentence, all phrases, in context
Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor exported a PDF to a text tile, a text file, let me repeat, a text file, and it had spaces between words such that they appeared in the text tile, text file, text file ( did I say “text file” ) as tab-delimited, there was just enough white space after each word to have them line up in columns, here’s a snippet:
diseases. Within your sea of white blood cells is a match for virtually any
pathogen that infects you, and a big key to your health involves the speed with
which the right T cell and B cell can make contact with the disease, bind to it,
and then manufacturer tens of thousands of copies of the precise defender to
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wipe out the offenders.
Let’s say it’s flu season. You’re on an airplane or a bus, and someone coughs.
You’re in your cubicle at work. You’re a full five feet away from the infected
person. Not far enough, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), which puts the flu’s range of travel by sneeze or cough at six feet. Or
you can get flu on your skin through a touch on a handrail that a carrier has
touched not long before. A kiss, a hug, a handshake. You wipe your nose, and
now the virus has a warm and comfy place to reproduce.
Almost immediately, the immune system picks up an intruder, but at this
point in the scientific journey—in the chronology of discovery—immunology
didn’t really understand what first contact looked like. That came later.
A T cell, central to our elegant defense. (NIAID/NIH)
So, back to the flu and you, and T cells and B cells. When you are first
infected, your body generates a kind of generic response. It is during this period 50
that your elegant defense is waiting for your T cells and B cells to generate a
powerful response. The delay can take five to seven days. That is because the
right B cell and T cell, with the right antibody or receptor, must be contacted, or
make contact with the bug, fit lock into key, and begin generating defenders.
Many times, then, the best case is that you’re sick for a few days while this
immune response kicks in. Again, this doesn’t mean you’re without defenses
until that point, but it means you’re without precision defenses, like a T cell or aA text file is a text file is a text file is a text file.
Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor apparently saw each word as a separate item to be delimited, and was, as I say, unable to recognize the human-readable meaning of the content of the PDF file, no sophisticated intelligence, and as I wrote, I could fix it by opening it in Word-equivalent and run a series of fixes such as search and replace all multiple spaces with single spaces … because Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor is unable to recognize the human-readable meaning of the content of the PDF file.
Note the page numbers 49 and 50 in the middle of sentences, doh … because Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor is unable to recognize the human-readable meaning of the content of the PDF file.
I appreciate that some folks can’t use web search resources to successfully find some things, such as Free Ashampoo PDF Pro v1.11, not pirated, not cracked, fully licensed, with a license direct from Ashampoo, LMGTFY let me Google that for you:
[ https :// winningpc. com/product/ashampoo-pdf-pro-license-key-free/ ] … its a v1 giveaway pitch with a 57% OFF Ashampoo PDF Pro 2 Coupon Code, such official teaser promotions happen all the time.
Regarding hardware computer licensing, you’ve not identified any other program that requires the vendor to authorize installation on a particular computer, nor that depends on the vendor to give permission to reauthorize any subsequent installation – even Windows works in trial mode immediately after installation anywhere, and we can reinstall it again and again.
HD Sentinel installs anywhere without prior or coordinated permission from the vendor, as many times as we want, even on computers not tethered to the Internet, and immediately works in trial mode or free mode, no problem.
I haven’t seen hardware licensing since, I dunno, IBM mainframes.
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[@Gary], I’m not sure what problems you are trying to solve with your share.
– No, we did not have Zip file problems,
– no, the software could not phone home,
– no, it misbehaved on multiple computers,
– no, the software does not work in trial mode,
– no, the vendor did not reply to email contemporaneously with the installation,
– no, the vendor has not replied to some emails ever ( “yet” ),
– no, the vendor’s email does not identify which computer is authorized,
– no, the software has no search function,
– no, the software exported sentences and paragraphs to tab-delimited separate words in a text file,
– no, the software does not have features or benefits that are equal to, let alone superior to, alternatives.
Your post neither addressed nor fixed any of that.
Nor do I see any report from you of your own personal experience of Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor.
I’d say thanks for exploring this and sharing, but I do not see that you explored or shared about the SOS offer in these threads
Ashraf asks of us to “… Be sure to leave a nice comment if you like this offer or ask for help if you have any trouble …”.
Nice?
In a Teutonic sort of way ( SWIDT? ), accuracy is “nice” by my standards, anything less than accuracy is not nice at all.
Along the lines of “… it is not a good customer who does not tell if their soup is cold …”
That is, in order for a vendor to listen to their customers, their customer first has to speak up.
So, um … thanks for the opportunity to accurately reiterate what a crappy set of vendor policies and software the SOS offer exposed us to?
Look, Audials also got head-banging crappy reviews when first presented here, and in response, they got their act together, and Audials has made their offering much better, incorporating much of our advice and preferences, even though Audials is still weird, and awkward, but it has grown to be much, much better, more reliable, fully functional within itself, all dependencies in their own directories, even auto-recovering from lock-up if we are patient after overloading our system with an inordinately large download queue, kudos to Audials for stepping up to face and overcome the challenges we presented to them.
Same with Google Picasa, which went from proprietary uselessness, to universal value ( well, before Google dropped all pC projects except their browser, and dedicated themselves to phone$ )
Soft-Xpansion may do the same over the next few years, but they gotta get started.
I’m offering a kick-start.
A kick-in-the-butt-start, to be sure, but a kick-start nonetheless.
I wish Soft-Xpansion all the success in the world, and more power to them.
If I didn’t care, I would not have written a word.
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