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Cakefool posted:I I've just checked the pricing of nitro pro 8, unfortunately it's $120 but I use it at work & I've never used anything better for editing/working with pdfs. If 14 days is enough they have a free trial? I can get Acrobat for $99 so I'm trying to beat that  Thanks though.axolotl farmer posted:Imagemagick is a free command line tool that will do most of the things you want. To convert a jpg to pdf all you do is convert myjpg.jpg mypdf.pdf. The file size barely increases. helopticor posted:Irfanview is also free and for Windows and does that stuff. I will try those. Thanks a lot. To the others that offered suggestions, thanks also! The reason just printing JPG -> PDF doesn't work is that I ended up with a 31 page file that was 30mb. That's wayyyy too big to assign to students as reading (many printers poo poo themselves).
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Eggplant Wizard posted:I will try those. Thanks a lot. To the others that offered suggestions, thanks also! The reason just printing JPG -> PDF doesn't work is that I ended up with a 31 page file that was 30mb. That's wayyyy too big to assign to students as reading (many printers poo poo themselves). The reason for this is that PDFs are not made to handle images, they're made to handle text. Image laden PDFs are always huge and slow. What you need is a scanner tool that can read text.
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baquerd posted:The reason for this is that PDFs are not made to handle images, they're made to handle text. Image laden PDFs are always huge and slow. What you need is a scanner tool that can read text. I will add that it seems the default setting on pdf generators is 'loving huge file size' I use Acrobat Pro and always run the 'optimise pdf' feature to get 5MB files down to 1MB. Your software might have the option to reduce the resolution of images.
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baquerd posted:The reason for this is that PDFs are not made to handle images, they're made to handle text. Image laden PDFs are always huge and slow. What you need is a scanner tool that can read text. The pdf format is perfectly capable of handling embedded jpgs. A decent program will use the compress jpgs instead of turning them into uncompressed bmps or something stupid. With Adobe programs, this is unnecessarily complicated. Digitizing a document with OCR is actually a lot of work, and is drat hard if the text is blurry or uses a older typeface.
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What happens when a Muslim accidentally eats pork? What would happen if he deliberately ate pork (curiosity, lack of respect, etc)? What would he do if somebody knowingly served him pork?
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Nothing, fires of hell, jihad.
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CzarChasm posted:RAD as hell Career advice Ok, I'll start looking at temp work for agencies and what not, Thanks man I appreciate the help. What do IT guys normally deal with day to day? (I'm imagining a lot of, "Help the internet is slow!" and "Help, I accidentally my hard drive!")
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Liebfraumilch posted:How do you get infiltrated with fruit flies in the first place? I have a feeling they are lying in wait whenever I get bananas, peaches, or cantaloupe in particular. Likely? I looked it up once and they have an incredible range (like a mile?) of sensing rotting fruit, and can get into pretty much anywhere because of their size. They're not too hard to get rid of, just remember to set your trap after removing all the fruit, garbage, beer cans, etc from your place so the trap is tempting. They go nuts for a banana half-soaking in apple cidar vinegar.
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Knightmare posted:I looked it up once and they have an incredible range (like a mile?) of sensing rotting fruit, and can get into pretty much anywhere because of their size. They're not too hard to get rid of, just remember to set your trap after removing all the fruit, garbage, beer cans, etc from your place so the trap is tempting. They go nuts for a banana half-soaking in apple cidar vinegar. Who wants to talk about how many fruit flies you have potentially already ingested in your lifetime? 
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I've recently started simmering vegetable oil with ground up marijuana to mix in brownie mix to make brownies with. It's worked out really well. However, I would like to find a healthier alternative to mix the oil with instead of brownies, does anyone have any suggestions? I end up getting way too high from the brownies, getting the munchies, and then eating more brownies and getting more high, sometimes uncomfortably high.... yes... it's a vicious cycle.
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Baron Bifford posted:What happens when a Muslim accidentally eats pork? What would happen if he deliberately ate pork (curiosity, lack of respect, etc)? What would he do if somebody knowingly served him pork? For the last one, I think a lot of people would be rightfully pissed, assuming it was done out of malice. Deliberately serving pork is kind of eek, yeah, so I won't touch that one. But take it down a few thousand notches: if we're just talking a sandwich from a friend who knows your dietary restrictions and it has cheese that may have rennet from an animal source it is better to accept and eat it as a gracious guest than be a jerk and ask about it or remove it. Waste is haram. Breaking hearts or insulting friends in any way over such things is a bigger wrong. -- Also, thank God I don't have a fruit fly problem, and seldom do, but when I see them it is almost always when there is cantaloupe, bananas, or peaches around so I figured they hitched a ride on them. And, no, I do not want to know how many I have eaten in my lifetime. 
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Addy posted:Who wants to talk about how many fruit flies you have potentially already ingested in your lifetime? Don't worry all the spiders you swallow will get them anyways. But what is going to get the spiders? * - you really don't swallow spiders in your sleep. At least most people don't. Trastion fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 16, 2012 |
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Trastion posted:Don't worry all the spiders you swallow will get them anyways. But what is going to get the spiders? Hold on, let me check my manual... 
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Trastion posted:you really don't swallow spiders in your sleep. At least most people don't. 
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Busy Bee posted:I've recently started simmering vegetable oil with ground up marijuana to mix in brownie mix to make brownies with. It's worked out really well. However, I would like to find a healthier alternative to mix the oil with instead of brownies, does anyone have any suggestions? I end up getting way too high from the brownies, getting the munchies, and then eating more brownies and getting more high, sometimes uncomfortably high.... yes... it's a vicious cycle. Waffles, hummus, pesto, corn muffins, whole wheat bread, oatmeal cookies, carrot cake. You could also make a rad pasta sauce and then put it over some whole wheat pasta. Any dip would be really good with some toasted pita or whole wheat crackers. The world is your oyster, maybe try smoking some and then pondering this again.
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What's a good drinking game for the original Star Wars trilogy?
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the JJ posted:What's a good drinking game for the original Star Wars trilogy? Force -- drink Empire -- drink Vader wheeze -- drink Imperial March -- drink
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Cannot remember if I asked this before, but I definitely meant to: curiosity grew too great and my fiancé picked up a package of mysterious flat bread at the nearest halal market that he said he's seen families buy up crazily whenever he's there, but he's never heard of, himself. It came in a large clear bag with no labels on it, the flatbreads were huge--bigger than a normal plate--and had a spongy texture and appearance. The ones we had were additionally an unappealing grayish color. The bread had a sour taste we both found awful, the texture was too-soft, like pancakes, and we honestly didn't know what to do with them to make them edible. Their taste did not clearly call for anything that could better them--jam, butter, savory sauces...nothing at all seemed like it would work. I think I tried to crisp them in a pan later on, and he begged me to just let him throw the whole bag out for animals and try to forget about it. Whenever I'm at the market, everyone is too busy for me to have the audacity to strike up conversation as to how to use bread  and nothing came up on Google for sour spongy gray flat Arab bread, so can someone please identify this for me? I need to know what it is, how it is best served, and validation that it is an acquired taste...and texture.
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Liebfraumilch posted:Cannot remember if I asked this before, but I definitely meant to: curiosity grew too great and my fiancé picked up a package of mysterious flat bread at the nearest halal market that he said he's seen families buy up crazily whenever he's there, but he's never heard of, himself. It came in a large clear bag with no labels on it, the flatbreads were huge--bigger than a normal plate--and had a spongy texture and appearance. The ones we had were additionally an unappealing grayish color. The bread had a sour taste we both found awful, the texture was too-soft, like pancakes, and we honestly didn't know what to do with them to make them edible. Their taste did not clearly call for anything that could better them--jam, butter, savory sauces...nothing at all seemed like it would work. I think I tried to crisp them in a pan later on, and he begged me to just let him throw the whole bag out for animals and try to forget about it. Injera, maybe?
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Lost For Words posted:Injera, maybe? How did you do that? I am almost certain you're right: sour, spongy, "pancakes"...you have given a name to my adversary, and I will now learn everything I can. I cannot believe I waited a year to ask SomethingAwful. Thank you.
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You are more or less supposed to use it as an edible fork/spoon. It didn't taste sour to me at all but then again if you are from the US you are probably used to large amounts of sugar in your bread.
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Liebfraumilch, you owe it to yourself to get a meal at a good Ethiopian restaurant. Injera is delicious with the different kinds of stew they put on it. You get a big plate covered in injera topped with stews that the entire table share, and you eat it with your hands by ripping off a piece of injera and wrapping up some stew in it.
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That, I can do, I hope. Bless Philadelphia. It's been a really long time since I've had fluffy loaves of sliced bread--my complete flat bread revolution came in 2010--but the injera did taste sour to me. Actually sour, not "where's the corn syrup  " lack-of-sweet sour. Maybe it was...expired. Will give it another go. Thanks, all!\/\/\/ Edit: Heck yeah! That is pretty much exactly my stomping grounds. Have been trying to stick to a tight budget and restaurants feel like too much of a luxury even when they may not be, but I've been itching to try out these places and we no doubt will soon. Liebfraumilch fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Nov 17, 2012 |
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Liebfraumilch posted:That, I can do, I hope. Bless Philadelphia. Man there's places in West Philadelphia where you have three different Ethiopian restaurants all next o each other on the same block, it's great.
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Install Gentoo posted:Man there's places in West Philadelphia where you have three different Ethiopian restaurants all next o each other on the same block, it's great. Go down Baltimore around 48th. Also buy your Halal @ 43rd & Walnut, Which you might already be doing. Warning: it has been a few years since I have lived there.
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What flavor is the Oriental flavor of Maruchan Ramen supposed to be? These things, specifically: I think they're supposed to be shoyu flavor, but I've heard everything from miso to beef and chicken to pure MSG. I've had miso and it definitely does not taste like miso, so that can't be it. Does anyone know for sure?
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Pollyanna posted:What flavor is the Oriental flavor of Maruchan Ramen supposed to be? These things, specifically: Trying to find a real world comparison to the artificially produced flavours contained within those satchets is utterly futile.
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I've got Windows 7 and I'm thinking of getting an alternative Shell, I don't want to make a thread for just this one question though. What are some good Goon reccomended alternative Shells for Windows 7?
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Turtlicious posted:I've got Windows 7 and I'm thinking of getting an alternative Shell, I don't want to make a thread for just this one question though. What are some good Goon reccomended alternative Shells for Windows 7? Depends what you want to do. If you want to configure and tweak up the arse, try Aston shell. If you want super simple, try bbLean.
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Pollyanna posted:What flavor is the Oriental flavor of Maruchan Ramen supposed to be? These things, specifically: I've always thought this flavor tasted like soy sauce.
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Manslaughter posted:I've always thought this flavor tasted like soy sauce. Yeah, that's definitely shoyu/soy sauce. I'm just not 100% sure since it doesn't quite taste like soy sauce I've had in the states...but maybe it's not supposed to be.
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Experto Crede posted:Depends what you want to do. If you want to configure and tweak up the arse, try Aston shell. If you want super simple, try bbLean. I found E-merge, which is doing very nicely.
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Pollyanna posted:What flavor is the Oriental flavor of Maruchan Ramen supposed to be? They all taste like salt, disappointment, and broken hearts to me. Pollyanna posted:I think they're supposed to be shoyu flavor, but I've heard everything from miso to beef and chicken to pure MSG. I've had miso and it definitely does not taste like miso, so that can't be it. Does anyone know for sure? It's 10000% not miso. I'm pretty sure it's not beef or chicken since maruchan makes "beef" and "chicken" flavors as well. It doesn't really have much a resemblance to Japanese shoyu ramen, either...
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Turtlicious posted:I found E-merge, which is doing very nicely. If you need more input on this later on there's a Windows megathread in sh/sc. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3137721
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the JJ posted:What's a good drinking game for the original Star Wars trilogy? Take a drink whenever Luke is upside-down for any reason, even momentarily.
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Pollyanna posted:What flavor is the Oriental flavor of Maruchan Ramen supposed to be? These things, specifically: 5 spice, soy, and MSG. "5 spice" is pretty much clove, cinnamon, ginger, fennel, and star anise, but the real answer is artificial flavor and msg. There's probably a bit of garlic and onion flavor too.
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I would like to buy 4 CDs for my friend that lives in Italy. The CDs are all sold on Amazon and total about 46$. Is it better (cheaper?) for me to buy the CDs on the amazon.com website and have them shipped internationally (will he have to pay customs/ import fees?), or should I try (and can I even) buy it through the amazon.it website and have it shipped to him from Italy?
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I may or may not participate in this year's Reddit Secret Santa, and I may or may not sign up to ship internationally. Besides higher shipping costs, is there anything else involved with shipping packages to other countries?
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Raimundus posted:I may or may not participate in this year's Reddit Secret Santa, and I may or may not sign up to ship internationally.
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