Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday February 28th 2006
Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 23:13
Or even print to a new PDF!...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 23:12
My setup (for those who can read me) is Windows-XP home, IE6 fully
service packed, and I use google as my email client.
I checked my regional & language settings in control panel, and my
Language for...
RE: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 22:23
You can get a pdf converter on download.com
As for reconverting it to PDF, you can get a program on sourceforge,
there is a project on there,
Joe
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From: Matt Mitchell [EMA...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 20:51
>>> Come on Andy S. Send as plain text.
>>
>> He does. It's sent as plain-text with UTF-8 charset which gets encoded
>> as base-64 due to its 8-bit content :-)
>
> Hmmm.. I post in UTF-8 too (using...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 20:39
So he does. LOL!
OK, let me re-phrase that:
Come on Andy S, send as 7-bit plain text or just Western European ISO...
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Kathy...
Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 20:24
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 18:57, Alan Milford wrote:
> It's not uncommon to have editable fields in a PDF, but unless you've
> got a PDF writer you can't save the file ;-)
But you can print it out...
Re: FN-FORUM: gethuman
date posted 28th February 2006 19:31
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RE: FN-FORUM: SQL / ASP help
date posted 28th February 2006 18:53
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> Well my ASP sure is rusty. I need to edit the display order
> of some items in a table. Simple, execpt my client wants to
> be able to edit the display order for a g...
Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 18:28
Hi guys,
Downloaded the acrobat professional tryout, which obviously worked a treat.
I did look for this before, but they dont make it very obvious there is one.
Suprisingly!
Thanks guys
Kev
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Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 18:17
Dom Latter wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 Feb 2006 3:48 pm, Kevin Choppin wrote:
>
>> I have just received a contract in pdf format and I need to edit a few
>> details and add my signature, but im not going...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 18:16
On Tuesday 28 Feb 2006 6:30 pm, Graeme J Sweeney wrote:
> The archive loves it:
>
> http://www.freelancers.net/show_forum/20060228/173519.html
That's taking anti-spam measures a bit far, eh?
Right,...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 18:14
>> Come on Andy S. Send as plain text.
>
> He does. It's sent as plain-text with UTF-8 charset which gets encoded
> as base-64 due to its 8-bit content :-)
Hmmm.. I post in UTF-8 too (using Opera)....
Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 18:13
On Tuesday 28 Feb 2006 3:48 pm, Kevin Choppin wrote:
> I have just received a contract in pdf format and I need to edit a few
> details and add my signature, but im not going to pay =A3245 for the
>...
FN-FORUM: gethuman
date posted 28th February 2006 17:51
http://www.gethuman.com/uk/
This may be of some help you all.
I only just got passed it and haven't tested any of it, so forgive me if
none of it works...
The US one is a lot better populated. Hope...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 17:50
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Lists wrote:
>
> Nor does mine. They are the only ones that come through as Base64.
>
> Come on Andy S. Send as plain text.
He does. It's sent as plain-text with UTF-8 charset w...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 17:36
Nor does mine. They are the only ones that come through as Base64.
Come on Andy S. Send as plain text.
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Kathy
http://www.vendet...
Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 17:33
Print it, add your text to the hard copy and fax it to my fax number. I'll
forward the resulting PDF to you...
Not free, unfortunately.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 17:32
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Alain Williams wrote:
> What is the collected wisdom ?
Encode client-side state.
Single-thread model
Object locks.
What's the likelihood vs consequence of a double submission?...
RE: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 17:30
Load the 30 day trial version from the Adobe web-site, it doesn't affect
your reader install.=20
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Choppin
Sent: 28...
FN-FORUM: Testing
date posted 28th February 2006 17:28
Hi,
Is anyone else having trouble emailing the list, half the emails I send
never seem to come back to me (from the list) so im assuming that means
they're not getting to anyone?
Mick.
--
Michae...
Re: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 17:23
> Hi,
>
> what do you do to guard against a web form being submitted more than once ?
>
I struggled with this when I was developing this site:
http://www.virtual-worlds.biz/africa_web/
which con...
RE: FN-FORUM: fixing position of background image
date posted 28th February 2006 17:19
This may be impossible because you are using frames (yugh! but you can
position the element using bottom right and that might work.
body {
background-image: url(organic7.jpg);
backg...
Re: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 17:13
Not neccessarily, as long as the page updates whatever variable its
checking against to ensure no double submissions before it does the work
of the page (and updates it at the same time) there shoul...
RE: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 17:11
It's a technique I use on contact forms & suchlike to perform validation
before submission. I don't think this will stop users pressing the refresh
button once the data is submitted. If there's a bu...
Re: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 17:09
The most reliable way of preventing the double submission would be to
put a hidden variable in the form and check a submission hasn't already
been made with that value (maybe store it in the databas...
Re: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 17:04
On 28 Feb 2006, at 17:19, Alain Williams wrote:
> what do you do to guard against a web form being submitted more than
> once ?
A technique I have seen on websites I have used "greys out" the submi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 17:02
Alain Williams wrote:
> Putting something in $_SESSION would seem one way (record the state of what is
> happening), but what happens if the script takes a lot of time (say it is doing
> a SOAP call t...
RE: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 16:59
Can you disable the back & refresh buttons with javascript?
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From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Simon
Alexnader
Sent: 28 February 2006 17:29
To: FN-FORUM / [...
RE: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 16:57
It depends on the form.
For a forum, to prevent double posting, you can check the entries in the
database over the last 5 minutes with the data being sent.
Lee.
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From: [EM...
RE: FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 16:49
You could do it using javascript
or
onclick="this.disabled='true';"
>From: A...
FN-FORUM: Preventing multiple submission of forms - PHP
date posted 28th February 2006 16:39
Hi,
what do you do to guard against a web form being submitted more than once ?
This can happen if the user hits the back/reload button & submits the data again.
It also seems to happen, with some b...
FN-FORUM: SQL / ASP help
date posted 28th February 2006 16:02
Hi
Well my ASP sure is rusty. I need to edit the display order of some
items in a table. Simple, execpt my client wants to be able to edit
the display order for a group of items in a particular cat...
RE: FN-FORUM: background image position
date posted 28th February 2006 16:02
> Just that black image you see in the middle (kind of
> organic) can't be fixed and I need to fix it, otherwise
> on different screen's size it will always look different
>
> Now I've my code looks...
Re: FN-FORUM: Setting up Exim smtp
date posted 28th February 2006 15:50
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:13:34PM -0000, James Fidell wrote:
>
> Jonathan Chong wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >I've managed to configure my exim so that it is sending and receiving
> >mails, but only from P...
Re: FN-FORUM: Setting up Exim smtp
date posted 28th February 2006 15:44
Hi James
Thanks for getting back so quickly.
Yes, every outgoing email will be sent from my box alone, as I don't
want my server to be used as a smtp server for spammers. How do I
enable this in Exi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Setting up Exim smtp
date posted 28th February 2006 15:33
Jonathan Chong wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've managed to configure my exim so that it is sending and receiving
> mails, but only from PHP's mail function.
>
> If I am using a mail client like Thunderbird a...
FN-FORUM: background image position
date posted 28th February 2006 15:24
Dear guys,
I'm working on this website, which is pretty finished:
www.networkedcultures.org
Just that black image you see in the middle (kind of organic) can't be
fixed and I need to fix it, otherwi...
Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 15:15
Open office plays nice with PDFs, if I remember correctly.
It certainly exports to PDF.
-ben
Kevin Choppin wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Hope everyione is well.
>
> Is there any way I can edit a pdf fil...
FN-FORUM: Setting up Exim smtp
date posted 28th February 2006 15:14
Hello
I've managed to configure my exim so that it is sending and receiving
mails, but only from PHP's mail function.
If I am using a mail client like Thunderbird and attempt to use my
server as an...
Re: FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 15:13
try to 'select all' and copy and paste in word, then save the word
file as .pdf (in mac you can do that by -print -save doc as .pdf)
sometime it works (at least I've been doing that more than once),...
FN-FORUM: editing pdf's
date posted 28th February 2006 15:08
Hi guys,
Hope everyione is well.
Is there any way I can edit a pdf file without having to pay £245 for adobe
acrobat standard?
I have just received a contract in pdf format and I need to edit a f...
FN-FORUM: fixing position of background image
date posted 28th February 2006 15:02
Dear guys,
I'm working on this website, which is pretty finished:
www.networkedcultures.org
Just that black image you see in the middle (kind of organic) can't be
fixed and I need to fix it, otherwi...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 13:47
Thanks for that I'll look into it, very strange.
Andrew
--
http://www.punterspower.co.uk
>
> Andy
> For some strange reason our firewall/anti virus does not like your emails
> and we always receiv...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 13:24
Andy
For some strange reason our firewall/anti virus does not like your emails
and we always receive a blank message, thought you might find this info
helpful
Tony
Hilbourne.com
Internet Services
We...
RE: FN-FORUM: Password protect a file
date posted 28th February 2006 12:51
Thanks for the help guys.
Jomo
>
> Standard approach would be to use Apache Basic Authentication.
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html
>
> Dave...
>
>
> Use a .htaccess fi...
Re: FN-FORUM: fixing position of background image
date posted 28th February 2006 12:37
thanks sam,
that was an help.
But still on different screens' size it looks different.
Is there any way you know to fix it to the bottom frame (namely to
ICeland), b/c that's what my client wants......
RE: FN-FORUM: Anyone got Quark?
date posted 28th February 2006 11:59
Make sure the language is set to US instead of UK that might stop it
crashing.
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Quick
Sent: 25 February 2006 22:18...
Re: FN-FORUM: Password protect a file
date posted 28th February 2006 11:21
Dynamic Developer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to password protect a file (or a folder) on a site? The
> file concerned is a Coldfusion script. I want to protect access to it with a
> userna...
RE: FN-FORUM: Password protect a file
date posted 28th February 2006 11:18
Use a .htaccess file. Search in google for the syntax is probably your =
best
bet.=20
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From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of =
Dynamic
Developer
Sent: 28 Februa...
FN-FORUM: Password protect a file
date posted 28th February 2006 11:16
Hi,
Does anyone know how to password protect a file (or a folder) on a site? =
The
file concerned is a Coldfusion script. I want to protect access to it =
with a
username and password.
The host is Cr...
RE: FN-FORUM: fixing position of background image
date posted 28th February 2006 10:26
You also need to set the position from top, currently you have only set the
position from left.
body {
background-image: url(organic7.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 350px...
FN-FORUM: fixing position of background image
date posted 28th February 2006 10:06
Dear guys,
I'm working on this website, which is pretty finished
www.networkedcultures.org
Just that black image you see in the middle (kind of organic) can't be
fixed and I need to fix it, otherwis...
Re: FN-FORUM: Off-topic threads
date posted 28th February 2006 10:01
Andy Swarbrick wrote:
> Firstly and primarily it is a way of the group
> exploring the boundaries of what defines the group. Secondly it helps
> prevent the group becoming introverted & narrowminded a...
FN-FORUM: Off-topic threads
date posted 28th February 2006 09:51
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FN-FORUM: Web producer role - 3 weeks freelance
date posted 28th February 2006 09:47
Hi all
Posting this on behalf of a friend:
Web Producer - freelance cover for three weeks
Description at: http://www.workcomms.com/webproducer/
You'll be managing and leading interactive projects f...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flight Sims
date posted 28th February 2006 09:30
On 27 Feb 2006, at 20:35, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> What's the "standard" in Flight Sims and what's the recommended "uber
> machine" to "play" them on.
Sorry, should have said: www.x-plane.com...
Re: FN-FORUM: Losing Icons in MS Word and MS Excel
date posted 28th February 2006 08:56
Some other things that might be worth doing in order to identify the
cause (no solutions here - just investigation!):
1) Identify what the icon is pointing to
a) Start Word, and select Tools->Customi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flight Sims
date posted 28th February 2006 08:54
On 27 Feb 2006, at 20:35, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> What's the "standard" in Flight Sims and what's the recommended "uber
> machine" to "play" them on.
Hi Andy,
I'm a "serious" freelancer (10...
Re: FN-FORUM: A1 / A2 printing?
date posted 28th February 2006 08:41
i can do A1 @£30 per sheet
and [EMAIL REMOVED] per sheet
[EMAIL REMOVED] let me know if you need my assistance?
Will
_______________________________________________________________
What was e...
Re: FN-FORUM: Questions ...
date posted 28th February 2006 01:37
Missed this thread...
Another option is to switch to the Channels palette, select the Red
Channel, Select All, Copy, go back to Layers, Paste. Photographers use
this method a fair bit. This way you...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 01:09
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RE: FN-FORUM: Questions ...
date posted 28th February 2006 01:06
I prefer CTRL+U (pc) drag the saturation down :)
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 27 February 2006 18:36
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subjec...
RE: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 01:02
Now that would be interesting to see! :)
Stephen.
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PuntersPower
Sent: 25 February 2006 16:26
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVE...
RE: FN-FORUM: XP Problem
date posted 28th February 2006 01:00
In my experience an I\O error is pretty serious. The few times I've had the
error it was one of two things, it was either a onboard controller problem
(hardware or drivers) or when you change some of...
Re: FN-FORUM: site test
date posted 28th February 2006 00:28
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