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Q&A: Fragmented old PDF
Q I needed to access an old and long document which was created using Microsoft Word 2008. For simplicity I opened a PDF file made from it, but cannot get any sense from that file: when I copy...
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Q&A: Blocked PDF access
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Strange things happen. This particular strangeness is best described in the original message which I received: Just now, I was working on my iMac, copy-editing an academic book in Acrobat Pro XI. For...
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Just Take This Down: Optical Character Recognition
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Q&A: Is printing from Pages pants?
Q I created our annual family newsletter using Pages 5.6.1 under OS X 10.11.2, which I found very straightforward. However, when I tried to print it out, my colour Postscript laser printer got slower...
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Taxing good sense: breaking old habits in forms
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