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WSArchie - Locating Anonymous FTP Sites
Can anyone advise me whether Archie servers still exist, and whether
the old program WSArchie still works for tracking down anonymous FTP
sites ?
If it no longer exists, can anyone advise me what is currently the
best equivalent software (or method) for locating anonymous ftp sites
that host particular software ?
Many thanks in advance for all and any assistance.
Cheers,
Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)
(Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Lecturer and Legal Researcher
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
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WSArchie - Locating Anonymous FTP Sites
>From the wikipedia article on Archie
http://archie.icm.edu.pl/archie-adv_eng.html
It might be easier to search for the particular software rather than
searching for FTP sites that have your particular software. Why just
limit yourself to FTP sites?
What software are you looking for?
John
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Ronald Huttner <rshutt@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Can anyone advise me whether Archie servers still exist, and whether the old
> program WSArchie still works for tracking down anonymous FTP sites ?
> If it no longer exists, can anyone advise me what is currently the best
> equivalent software (or method) for locating anonymous ftp sites that host
> particular software ?
> Many thanks in advance for all and any assistance.
> Cheers,
> Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)
> (Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Lecturer and Legal Researcher
> Melbourne
> Victoria
> Australia
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pdf conversion software
What is the best software for someone who needs to do a lot of PDF/DOC (or DOCX) conversions in both directions? I remember Nuance as glitchy, but that was a couple of years ago.
David Lowe
Computer Services Librarian
Bounds Law Library
University of Alabama School of Law
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pdf conversion software
David,
For DOC to PDF I use Acrobat. (we all know the limitations and problems)
For PDF to DOC - the absolute best I have found is also FREE.
www.PDFtoWord.Com
PDFTOWORD has always worked very well for me - even with graphic heavy
documents.
Here is the only catch. It's not instant. It can be - but not always. It
depends on how many documents are cued up AND how complex the document. I
sent a GRAPHIC HEAVY document that was about 40 pages and it took about 8
hours to get it. That is the downside. I had previously used a few
different commercial packages with horrible results. I didn't expect
anything any better from a free service. The document was PERFECT. Not a
single error. Just one person's experience but I was hooked.
Syd Beckman
Vice President, Dean and Professor of Law
Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:08 AM, David Lowe <dlowe@law.ua.edu> wrote:
> What is the best software for someone who needs to do a lot of PDF/DOC (or
> DOCX) conversions in both directions? I remember Nuance as glitchy, but
> that was a couple of years ago.
>
> David Lowe
> Computer Services Librarian
> Bounds Law Library
> University of Alabama School of Law
>
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RE: pdf conversion software
PDF to DOC is always going to glitch, but just depends on the document. If there are any graphics at all, it changes the whole game. Adobe Acrobat Pro X actually does a pretty good job at converting a text PDF to a doc. I found that running OCR on the PDF prior to saving as a .doc works well.
I would venture to say that Adobe Acrobat is always going to be the best, obviously.
Jeff Whitcomb
Technology Services Manager
Cumberland School of Law - Samford University
205-726-4662
jmwhitco samford edu
P Think before you print
Why are computers so difficult? Because of errors like this:
Service X depends on service Y, which failed to start because of the following error: The operation completed successfully.
From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of David Lowe
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 9:09 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] pdf conversion software
What is the best software for someone who needs to do a lot of PDF/DOC (or DOCX) conversions in both directions? I remember Nuance as glitchy, but that was a couple of years ago.
David Lowe
Computer Services Librarian
Bounds Law Library
University of Alabama School of Law
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RE: pdf conversion software
For a big project doing batch conversions of TIFF files to PDF we used AdultPDF available at adultpdf.com (and ignore the name, it's not what you think). We had about 200,000 documents with 11 million pages in TIFFs that we converted to PDF files. We used this product on the recommendation of the computer science doctoral student who was advising us. It cost us about $50.00.
Warm regards,
Susanna Leers
eResearch & Technology Services Librarian
Barco Law Library
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
412 648-1329
From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Whitcomb, Jeff
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:44 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] RE: pdf conversion software
PDF to DOC is always going to glitch, but just depends on the document. If there are any graphics at all, it changes the whole game. Adobe Acrobat Pro X actually does a pretty good job at converting a text PDF to a doc. I found that running OCR on the PDF prior to saving as a .doc works well.
I would venture to say that Adobe Acrobat is always going to be the best, obviously.
Jeff Whitcomb
Technology Services Manager
Cumberland School of Law - Samford University
205-726-4662
jmwhitco samford edu
P Think before you print
Why are computers so difficult? Because of errors like this:
Service X depends on service Y, which failed to start because of the following error: The operation completed successfully.
From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of David Lowe
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 9:09 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] pdf conversion software
What is the best software for someone who needs to do a lot of PDF/DOC (or DOCX) conversions in both directions? I remember Nuance as glitchy, but that was a couple of years ago.
David Lowe
Computer Services Librarian
Bounds Law Library
University of Alabama School of Law
This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. Any review or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient or any retransmission without the consent of the sender is prohibited. The views or opinions expressed by the sender of this email are not necessarily those of the institution.
Susanna Leers
RE: pdf conversion software
There is another way...
One command ( mogrify -format pdf *.tiff ) will convert every tiff in a directory to pdfs of the same name. Mogrify is part of the ImageMagik toolset.
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html
Groklaw also has a great tutorial on batch-converting pdfs into text files using Tesseract open source character recognition.
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20061210115516438
And for complex or otherwise difficult documents ...
http://live.gnome.org/OCRFeeder
-Richard