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I finally got an email from [email protected] .
It had a key in a zip file.
I copied the zip file from the email.
Scanned it with my anti-virus software & it was clean.
I then opened the zip file & extracted the key.
I first opened this key in notepad.
It is long & in code.
So nothing like the key on this site.
I browsed to it with the soft-xpansion activation window & selected this key.
The sharewareonsale key was also required.
This worked & the program is activated.
I just hope it is the lifetime of this version & not a 30 day trial.
The usual about doesn’t say one way or the other.
So I will see.[@– bill]
You sound like a real asshole. Your ganging up on Peter brings nothing useful to the discussion. You are just hissing and spewing venom all over Peter.Get some help.
Installed without problem on Windows 10, 64 bits.
I have only tried the editor to change some text in a PDF, and, compared to my version of Acrobat 9 Professional, Perfect PDF 9 Editor seems more easy to use…Me too, [@gt1313], I did that, I saw and deleted a page number .. then saw that I’d have to do that manually for 300+ pages. I imagine you are doing direct editing of something you are looking at on a PDF page. Try to search and replace headers and footers, or another standard document like page numbers, or search and replace anything, let us know how that works in Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor … but if you don’t need to search and replace, if you do not need to do global editing, then direct editing of what you see in Soft-Xpansion may be peachy perfect – oh, that’s the name of the software, “Perfect”.
I wonder if there’s something common about what computer can phone home versus what computers cannot, you suggest Windows 10 ( which of 12+ versions of Windows 10 do you have ? I have Windows 7 64 Pro. Maybe Soft-Xpansion has Windows 10 and designed a phone-home system so tightly married to Windows 10-ish that it cannot find it’s way in Windows 7 … who knows ? ).
Thanks for exploring and sharing- THIS is what these threads are for.
.Well, the entertainment value of this software offering just keeps on giving.
Seriously [@– bill], again with the ZIP file, when we already explained that we have the software installed NO PROBLEM, it just won’t phone home, and Soft-Xpansion took a long time ( how many days now ? ) to respond to email ( and no, we did not need Gary to explain how to wait for an email reply ), and once I manually correlated one of their responses with the appropriate computer, email, and registration, I had it working on screen, and saw that it has no awareness of page structures, has no idea what headers and footers are, what page numbers are, it can’t even search let alone search and replace ( why am I repeating this ? ), unable to bring sophisticated intelligence to the human meaning of document contents, and only offering low-level tools and controls over PDF page elements, basically, it sucks, basically like throwing sockets, wrench, and screwdrivers at us when our goal it to plan and execute a car roadtrip cross country – hello, maps, weather, tools, fuel, food, lodging … a screwdriver helps how? Ahh, analogies …
I did not have an “approachability” challenge, no “help” needed, since I’m well versed in PDF editing, having trained US federal government agency employees how to meet Section 508 standards by reflowing PDFs for screen readers for the blind ( oh, I’m sorry, I don’t believe in throwing around braggadocio credentials, my bad ), and that was 10+ years ago, and Adobe Acrobat Pro at that time was more sophisticated than Soft-Xpansion over 10 years later, hence my immediate assessment that it sucks, please re-read my report after it finally appeared on my screen – the vendor and the software are Not Ready For Prime Time Yet, NRFPTY, Nerf Putty.
( But then, consider Microsoft Windows 10, all 12+ editions … and STILL Not Ready For Prime Time Yet, oh my ! )
I LOVE that you offer no alternative insights on the workings of the program – you couldn’t figure out a purpose and value for it either, eh?
Thanks for exploring this and sharing – well, actually, you did not explore the software, oh well, no one actually has done much of anything with the software, because it cannot actually do anything productive … though I do have a tab-delimited export of every word in a PDF book, if you want to read a book as if it were thousands of separate words in separate spreadsheet cells, thanks to Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor.
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Note that SOS posting timings have nothing to do with the actual timing of user’s and poster’s experiences and sharing, for example, we may start a post, leave it open while awaiting the software installation to register … and wait … and wait … especially for Soft-Xpansion … and never see other people’s posts that do arrive at SOS but do not appear on our own non-refreshed screen while we were in mid-post, and we may only see those earlier-arriving posts after we finish our own post, which, in the case of waiting for Soft-Xpansion, well, there may be a whole bunch of people right now STILL in mid-post awaiting a reply, and maybe we’ll see as the weeks wear on, won’t we? I can’t wait. ( SWIDT ? )
And please, Gary’s speculation about ZIP files things working smoothly for him had nothing to do with our experience of the software not phoning home, and Soft-Xpansion not replying to emails ( “yet”, as I try to remember, those email replies may be out there somewhere, and they may arrive any day now, it could happen ).
These SOS thread pages are not about me or you, and certainly not about our experiences of each other ( though I am so grateful that people who disagree about other things can agree about T-Rumputin ), but these threads are about our experience of the SOS offering.
Let’s get to that, okay?
.@Peter,
Some misc. follow-up, in particular to your reply of 9/7.
Sorry to say, but Ashampoo stuff is on my list of “Don’t Go There” companies. Do you perhaps recall the history with ASHhelper and WSHelper, in the annals of egregious ‘phone home’ behavior and files that proved quite difficult to hunt down and erradicate from one’s system ? (I’d like to think that they’ve learned, repented, and don’t do those things anymore, but . . . .)
Regardless of what PDF programs were employed, I recall longstanding problems working with any PDF that was graphical in origin (the way that JPG and TIFF are graphic in nature), as opposed to being mainly derived from textual sources. Basically, such PDFs were not editable at all, unless maybe successfully OCR scanned ?
Out of necessity, I’ve also had to convert some PDFs into eBook or ePub format. Maybe there are better programs for doing this than what I was using (Ice Cream converter), but I found plenty of problems with that, so far. Problems with pagination and fonts, and consistency therewith. Photos are apt to get discarded, entirely. That simply won’t do. I’d like to be able to replicate an original magazine or book layout more or less, for one. Faint hope for that ? The process seems geared towards preparing something to be read on a Nook or Kindle. ( = a Quite Small form factor )
After the required repairs to your cited URL, I was unable to get to anything actually downloadable, for that free edition of Acrobat. Maybe I need to try again, using a more capable browser like Opera. If I decided to go that route, I could obtain a much later version of Acrobat Pro, or even a portable one. (Might not be allowed to mention that here, but think a re-scrambling of “Neeppa”, whose library is pretty amazing.)
Yes, [@Gene],
PDFs were never meant to be edited,
they are a finished presentation format,
a printed page layout format,
if we wanted something different on the paper print out we were looking at,
we would not take an X-acto knife to the paper,
but we’d edit the original document,
and then print again.That said, PDFs are everywhere, and so, PDF content management has evolved to where some programming teams do put some incredible sophisticated intelligence into their programs, not just OCR optical character recognition, but also visible page elements awareness, and even, get this, search and replace, oh my.
But even the “best” PDF editor has limits, and I find that even in Adobe Acrobat Pro, the easiest way for me get it to remove headers, footers, page numbers, is to actually CROP THE PAGES as if I were using a paper cutter on a printed book to get just the page contents, then, after cropping, I can perform OCR, and then connecting the sentences that crossed pages is easier to do without headers and footers and pages numbers interrupting.
I still have to cobble together parts of uncropped pages, along with parts of cropped pages, to assemble a complete epub, I use free Word-equivalent and free Calibre, and it may take all day.
I have tried on-line PDF-to-epub converters, and I have tried a variety of software PDF-to-epub, and they all suck, either creating a mess, or just converting to hundreds of pages of JPGs, as if that’s a conversion.
No one converts a scanned image to text without arduous scrutiny after the fact.
Adobe puts the OCR text underneath the original image of the text, and does not even try to recognize and convert fonts, so the PDF looks the same as the original JPG because it’s still the original JPG overlay, but hey, the text is highlightable … but if you paste that text side by side, you’ll see tons of recognition errors nonetheless.
OmniPage and others have an endless run-through asking “what about this? and what about this?” where you hand-correct, and it supposedly learns … for … hundreds … of … pages ….
Might as well retype.
Instead, I often find official epub releases of PDF books at free [ b-ok. org ], then I do not have to convert at all!
I have no idea what “Neeppa” means:
Nae Pep
Ape Pen
Pea Pen
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Nap Pee
Pan Pee
Pa Peen
Pap Nee
A En Pep?
Just do a search for combinations of [ download Adobe CS license giveaway Acrobat Pro ], they keep migrating, and maybe Adobe as asked the web archive to eliminate executable files it scraped from [ Adobe. com ], even in the day or so since my recent discovery and share.
And my links just have spaces to prevent anything looking like a web link, so I space around :// and I space after a period, that’s all, if they fail with spaces removes, then the source may have evaporated.
So, did you find anything useful and powerful or at least functional in Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor?
Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
.[@Peter],
“So, did you find anything useful and powerful or at least functional in Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor?”
Not yet. Too many far more important fish to fry right now.
I will venture this: if a program — or even program suite — has just one somewhat-useful trick that it can do, which may be hard to reproduce elsewhere, perhaps it’s no great success overall but can still at times be a tool worth reaching for. I’m sure I must have a few programs in that category. Might this one qualify in that way ?As to my not-quite-an-anagram, and still very possibly remaining on thin ice here: Divide in half, reverse the two blocks, then reverse the first block. But, best not to call any more attention to it than that. The guy who manages that site must be rather young, I’m guessing. Also, if you read his declaration of principles and procedures, decidedly smug, arrogant, and condescending. And evidently no fear at all of the IP authorities. (I do generally agree with him about Win-10, however.)
For better clarity, should have phrased that: “swap the two blocks.”
I cancelled my television package – just read the feedback on SOS – far more entertaining! :)
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[ AppNee. com ]Oh.
… it complains about an AD blocker.
What’s an AD blocker?
I presume they mean an advertisement blocker, or Ad Blocker.
The word “advertisement” is not abbreviated as capital-A-capital-D, but just ad. or Ad. or Ad or ad.
Ad Blockers are the kind of program that permits us to filter our own views of the web, like tearing out advertising pages from our own newspaper or magazines once they arrive at our door, and the kind of thing that attention-challenged folks and others use to tame interfering and distracting noise on web pages, so they can participate in the world wide web without being triggered and distracted by anything they are not intentionally seeking, those with epilepsy, various manifestations of autism syndromes, Aspergers, and so on – yeah, some web sites do not understand that we are not going to respond to advertising anyway, so the web sites even lose referrals by blocking access to populations with comparative disabilities, even screen readers for the blind, how sad that those web sites are discriminating, and exclusionary, when all the web site has to do is participate with visitors with equivalent consideration, and promote their advertisers using neat, clean relevant, intentional text, in-line with the web site’s basic offering, see [ Quora. com ] for examples of inline text promotion, very profitable.
Are they also confusedly blocking those of us who change fonts and colors, those of us who decline to have active programming like Java, Shockwave, and Silverlight, as we read supposedly static web information?
SOS, GOTD, BDJ, and [ WinningPC. com ] are useful and functional, even with all of the browser-tuning I mention.
And of course, [ MagnetDL. com ] coupled with [ BitTorrent. com ] and [ VirusTotal. com ] – how else are folks going to get opensource distribution when their Internet connection is brief, slow, and intermittent at best?
And not just around the world unimproved remote locations, think of California US with its drilling blackouts due to fires, and the march of climate change bring such challenges to us all eventually.
Without trickling restartable torrents, we’re all going to be disconnected.
Think of the lowest common denominator, folks, I leave Linux distribution torrents and Libre Office torrents running 24 / 7 just to support those around the world with diminished resources, and I may set up a server just to re-torrent public domain intellectual property of every type, books, music, movies, daily news aggregation – how else are we going to unite the world as inclusive and egalitarian?
On topic, I use Adobe Acrobat Pro to [ Create PDF ] [ From Web Page ], and Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Pro has no equivalent feature, strike- … I dunno, how many strikes is it now, way more than strike-three.
By the way, Adobe Acrobat Pro creates a PDF page from [ SoftwareOnSale. com ] for off-line viewing just fine, [ AppNee. com ] just offers “… Please disable your adblock and script blockers to view this page …”, their loss.
Soft-Xpansion’s loss, too, in not offering … I dunno, should I rip out a licensed Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor just to install a trial version of Soft-Expansion Perfect PDF 10 Premium to see if it offers the missing competitive features and benefits of even 10-year previous Adobe Acrobat Pro?
Should I, Soft-Xpansion – what say?
So those are some one-trick-pony features, such as the ability to create a PDF by browsing a web site, and as I click on links in the PDF document under construction, I can add page after page to the current PDF, a wonderful resource for off-line reading, especially of blah-blah-blogs and technical reference presentations.
These are just tools, folks, not some precious holy magic that requires contortionary licensing.
And just as we use a screwdriver to open a can of paint, even though the instructions for using a screwdriver explain rotating screws in and out, not opening cans of paint,
… all of our software tools can be used for something way beyond the imagination of the original programmer,
… or maybe we’re just finding out what the original programmers used their own programs for,
… but their marketing department slapped a whole different presentation on top,
… maybe some programmers working on Adobe Acrobat Pro had a love affair with [ BlueSquirrel. com ] Grab-A-Site ( remember that ? ), and saw that it was equivalently easy to do that to build a PDF, to collect a web page, an entire web site, an entire browsing experience across any number of web pages, as a PDF, and a PDF is actually a better resource in some ways for off-line viewing.
Soft-Xpansion’s loss.
Has anyone yet got an Soft-Expansion advantage to share?
.[@Peter Blaise]
To be clear, I did not get two installations out of one SoS receipt. I knew someone that wanted to install Perfect PDF 9, so I asked them to allow me to be there so that we could try the e-mail method; different computer, and system. I wanted to save the dialogs displayed, and now I have them as a reference to show that both activation methods work.
Since you had trouble identifying the e-mail response from Soft Xpansion, I will pass on a tip that can help resolve these types of issues:
If you have your e-mail accounts set up to keep “conversations” together, the response from Soft Xpansion would be directly tied to the e-mail sent, which of course had the License key and Hardware key sent to Soft Xpansion. Try it, it is very helpful. If you have trouble setting it up, contact a computer tech to help you out.
Soft Xpansion has been in business for over 25 years, with a great reputation in Europe. The Perfect PDF 9 software has a copyright of 2002-2014, so the current version we have been offered already has at least a six-year track record itself, and with its previous versions, even more back to 2002. If there was a problem with their activation process, I am pretty sure they would have found out about it over the last six years for the version 9.x we get. Somehow you never acknowledged this program has been around for a long time but presumed you had identified a legitimate problem with their activation process. That is why I have been hoping you can take the initiative to do what they ask so you can register the software, then you can finally withdraw your claim that Soft Xpansion is the reason the program cannot be activated.
Now that you also have registered the program, you will have to concede that your statements telling users “it just won’t work” was in error. I think you owe an apology to Soft Xpansion, Ashraf, and others, and clarify that the registration part does work as long as you follow the directions. In that apology, there is no need to bring up your perspective of the software itself; that will be a separate issue. Just clear yourself regarding the activation. You are now part of the proof that the software can be activated even if the Internet method fails. Be a man about it.
Your Exported Text from Perfect PDF 9
You said that the output has “tabs” in it. What you are interpreting as Tabs is more likely your judgment of what you are seeing through some software, but not actually what is in the file. It would depend on what you use to view the output.
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Perfect PDF 9 exports text in Unicode format
, so to someone that does not recognize it, they may think it has tabs or extra spaces in it. If you import that file into some program or view it with a program that is not expecting the contents to be Unicode, it may mess up the display of that text.
Myself, I was glad to have a PDF program that could export in Unicode; most others do not, so in the past, I had to take another step to convert the text to Unicode.
Free Ashampoo PDF Pro v1.11
You mentioned that you installed the “free Ashampoo PDF Pro v1.11.” From what I can tell, it is possible to get that version for free but not legally free. Take off the “Pro” part. The “Pro” edition is not free as far as I can tell. The only way to get it “free” is with a “crack” from pirated software sites. If you try downloading from Ashampoo, you will actually download the version 2.0 trial, or the 1.0 trial, not the 1.11 Pro edition for free. So my question is, did you get it free and legal? If so, where can anyone else get it for free (and legal)?
In response to some of your comments:
>”writing NOT about the functioning of the Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor program itself.”
>”More importantly … nothing to say about the Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor, I see.”That is correct because I really don’t know very much about it at this point. It’s like day one for me. I have known about Soft Xpansion’s products for a long time. When this opportunity was placed before me by SoS, I was glad to take a look. So far, I have just installed the program. I haven’t had time to check out all of the program’s features. After I have a chance to use it more, I will learn if it is a program I like or would recommend. Each day I discover something else about it that I like, so I am glad to have the opportunity to check it out.
It is not uncommon for SoS users to have a successful install/activation, but not leave a detailed analysis of the program, so your judgment that no comments about the program’s functionality suggest there wasn’t anything good to say about it was out-of-line. There is no way I am going to install a PDF editor and within the next few hours have very much to say about it; that takes time.
There had been two reviews of the program in the Featured Reviews section from way early on. Both were favorable, albeit not extremely detailed, so some folks had made an effort to convey their thoughts on the program long before you ever mentioned not seeing any details of the program itself.
>”I haven’t seen hardware licensing since, I dunno, IBM mainframes?”
I totally believe you because I think you miss a lot.
You mentioned Hard Disk Sentinel in one of your comments, and you also posted comments on the SOS offer for Abstract Curves. That is two programs you know about for sure. Both are licensed per computer. I know because I have purchased both of them; it is in their terms. In many cases, the PC software “licensed per computer” agreement allows installation on a desktop and laptop, so that alone can eliminate many of the complaints users have with a “license per computer” agreement.
Just to show you that “license per computer” for PC programs is way more common than you thought, I did a quick check of some of my software purchases for the computer I am using (I didn’t bother checking from all sources because I wanted it to be easy for you to verify). I was going to post the list but it was too long. I had a list of 97 PC programs purchased in the last few years. If you want to see the list to convince you, I will locate a place where I can post the list.
From your comments to Bill:
>”the only reason to reboot is to have Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor become the default previewer and opener for Windws File Manager and PDF files, both of which are totally unnecessary to the functioning of the program itself”
That isn’t the reason. Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor becomes the default previewer and opener for Windows File Manager and PDF files whether you reboot or not.
There are several reasons why a reboot may affect the operation of the installed software. One reason is if any files were in use during the install, the system will not be using the new ones until after a reboot. It happens often when Microsoft components are installed as part of the overall install. Installing C++ runtime libraries is a good possibility for why the reboot shows up for this program. Most users will likely have a later version already installed, so this step is very short for Perfect PDF 9. Another reason is if the registry is changed, and the developer wants those changes to be read into memory. To ensure the new registry changes are read by the OS, the reboot ensures everything is in sync. Microsoft has improved on these reboots for newer operating systems, so the reboot suggestion may have been set in force back when XP users were the ones installing this software.
Conclusion
>”thank you for exploring this and sharing how Soft-Xpansion has completely and totally missed who the SOS customer is”
Your perspective … maybe, more importantly, you are not the definition of the “SoS customer.”
>”what can the programmers do?”
>”I dunno.”
>”And they won’t let me find out.”I think you are right; they probably are not going to let you find out.
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 49 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.
__________[@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.
.[@Randy] wrote “… I canceled my television package – just read the feedback on SOS – far more entertaining! :) …”
And all this is free, no matter how hard I try.
=8^o
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[@Peter Blaise]
>”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, …”
What encoding did you export the PDF file as?
