08-05-2007, 02:25 PM | #106 |
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I installed the latest 2.5.1 app OK , got it working after a few errors here and there.. I'm using Windows 2000 and I had to replace the xcopy DLL; and I had to select "1" page on the PDF options.
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guys, I am new...Had a huge and maybe stupid question:
I downloaded, extracted, and installed RasterFarian v2.5, ran once of the configuration, everything seems fine. When I started to do conversion, I got a windows dialogue error: "PDF Library - Evaluation period expired, please contact pdfsupport@pdf-tools.com"...Am I doing anything wrong, what am I suppose to do. If I click ok, my converted lrf will simply be blank. |
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08-09-2007, 03:32 PM | #108 |
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EDIT: Nevermind, I just found out myself by looking at your "kernel-processing.cmd"
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Is there a way to split a page into 3 parts (instead of 2) in RasterFarian? I would love to make the fonts somewhat larger than RasterFarian now produces.
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08-10-2007, 01:49 AM | #110 |
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Could someone please write a tutorial for this? I searched all over this forum and can't find one
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Looks to be a great program - one that will make a huge amount of stuff available for the Reader. But how to get from the 4 files on the May 16 post in this thread to a working version? I have searched for instructions comprehensible to non-geeks & find only a few bleats like mine requesting tutorials. Even the unpacking of the 4? zipped files is a bit strange & what emerges for me is a program that seems to be a 2.14 version that outputs blank pages. Of course the geeks will be shaking their heads in disbelief at my ignorance, but I want to spend time driving the car rather than assembling it.
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Oh, but there is a way, just look at the -map option (though the dithering is not as good as NetPBMs). Honestly, I think the ImageMagick documentation is quite alright.
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08-11-2007, 04:43 PM | #114 |
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Installing RasterFarian
Sorry to be so dense, but why are the RasterFarian files labeled part1, part2, and so on? Do I need to unzip and install all of the parts? Only one of them? I'd be grateful for any help.
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I got my prs-500 because the guy at the store said it would be perfect for my extensive pdf collection at home. Every one who will be reading this right now knows exactly how I felt then when I got it home fired it up and opened my first pdf book. After downloading this my world is right again. You have made me a happy man! In my sad little world that makes you a god of gadgetry. Thank you so very much!
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Problems with magazine pdfs.
I don't know if you have run into this before or not but I love the free magazines at http://www.qmags.com they download in pdf format but rasterfarian 2.5.1 will not convert them. I will attach one to this post not to worry though as far as copyright these are FREE mags. When i am at the preview screen it wants to know which page I want to preview 1-0 and if I skip when it does the conversion it outputs one blank page. Thanks in advanced!
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as for protected magazines... the SciAm magazines i subscribe to also have protection and I designed rasterfarian to bypass it. I think your error is due to something else. oh well, rasterfarian is a pos at heart. I suggest you also try PDFRead. It uses the same techniques (*caugh**caugh*) but with different means. It's not that great either, though. |
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Everyone who is using the current version of this product needs to make a choice. Alex is using a commercial tool as part of the conversion process, a tool which has not been paid for (thus the "trial expired" message) and cannot be distributed as part of a product even if it WAS paid for.
I don't want to sound like I don't appreciate the effort that Alex has put into producing this. However, distribution of a trial version of a commercial tool like this is just wrong, and Alex is quite aware of what he has done. I'm not going to reproduce his reply here, but I will say that I have no intention of using this tool while it violates the license of pdf-tools (the company that makes pdcat.exe). If you are using Rasterfarian, then you need to decide whether you want to encourage this kind of behavior. I certainly won't. I love my reader but I'm not going to break the law to read PDFs on it. I'm sure there are going to be some people who insult me for taking this position, or tell me "Who is it hurting?" or some other justification. And you are certainly within your right to do so. Remember, though, that people go to jail or pay fines for distributing illegal copies of software and I have no intention of doing either one of those things. I also don't want to see MobileRead.com get into trouble for a user using their site to distribute an illegal copy of a program. Mark Last edited by medavidson; 08-23-2007 at 06:57 PM. Reason: Added note... |
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