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#171
Quote from: Phil [Chaa006] on January 27, 2013, 12:07 PM
Quote from: Salvador Dhali on January 27, 2013, 11:39 AM
Other things to consider when producing PDFs is that, unless you're wealthy enough to own a suite of Adobe professional publishing software (Acrobat Pro, In Design, etc), you're going to encounter a few compatibility issues when it comes to converting content to PDF format from other programs (MS Word, etc.). What you see is most definitely NOT what you often get!
Good advice, but there is one very inexpensive (i.e., completely free) way around this.  Install TeX Live, learn to write in TeX, and you can produce as many perfect PDFs as anyone could wish for.  The learning curve is steep -- too steep for some -- but the results can be fully professional in skilled hands.  See, for example, Amazon's "look inside" view of Prof. Rosalind Gibson's "Principles of Nutritional Assessment", or the menu for the Thai-An restaurant.

** Phil.

For quick and simple PDF creation at its most basic there's always the free PDF-creating alternatives such as CutePDF Writer and PrimoPDF, once installed you can "print" any document (such as those produced from MS Office and OpenOffice) and save as a PDF.
#172
Ah this brings back fond memories, I had a Yamaha Pacifica electric in sea-foam green and a no-name acoustic from Argos (I forget the brand of that one), had to stop playing 15 years ago due to the onset of RA in my fingers  :'(.  Although I was never in a band it was a fantastic hobby, I was gutted when I had to give it up.
#173
Quote from: getonthegarabi on January 26, 2013, 05:19 PMGo for it Chris!  Auto-purchase.

What he said, definately a must-buy :)
#174
Pictures of Your Curries / Re: Glasgow madras
January 19, 2013, 08:09 PM
This has really inspired me, I'm down to my last few tubs of c2go bangladeshi base - gotta try this one next.  :)
#175
meths and a good rinse afterwards?
#176
business must be good  :)
#177
Pictures of Your Curries / Re: Glasgow madras
January 18, 2013, 11:51 PM
Quote from: Stephen Lindsay on January 18, 2013, 11:41 PM
Quote from: sp on January 18, 2013, 11:30 PM
Quote from: Stephen Lindsay on January 18, 2013, 11:23 PMSure you may not understand my accent and may wonder what possesses us Scots to wear the kilt and extend a friendly welcome with the phrase "what the (moderated) are you looking at". Yes we have our funny ways but the tartan (or Glasgow) curry is not, in my opinion, a homogeneous product.

indeed, "we're not all Rob Roys you know"...  ;)

aryt Jimmy?

no bad, how's yersel?  ;)
#178
Pictures of Your Curries / Re: Glasgow madras
January 18, 2013, 11:30 PM
Quote from: Stephen Lindsay on January 18, 2013, 11:23 PMSure you may not understand my accent and may wonder what possesses us Scots to wear the kilt and extend a friendly welcome with the phrase "what the (moderated) are you looking at". Yes we have our funny ways but the tartan (or Glasgow) curry is not, in my opinion, a homogeneous product.

indeed, "we're not all Rob Roys you know"...  ;)
#179
Quote from: mr.mojorisin on January 18, 2013, 09:21 PM
my Mrs was expecting 7 inches tonight

but......

I'm tired and I'm off to bed to sleep  :)

maybe tomorrow night, if she's lucky  ;)

are you dusting off your vinyl collection?  ;)
#180
blue skies here too today, between 2 and 5 degrees, the lightest dusting of snow.... come on hurry up I want a skive, oh err i mean "snow day" (or at least enough for go on the stepdaughters sledge  :D)

edit... that's it starting now... yipee!