From: RCIngham on
<big snip!>
>
>BTW, you can blame all of this on the community standardizing on a
>proprietary document format instead of open source. There seem to be
>open source tools for PDF files now, but it has taken a long time and
>most people don't know about them.
>
>Rick
>

PDF is now a 'proper' standard: ISO 32000-1:2008.


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From: Symon on
On 2/25/2010 12:56 PM, rickman wrote:
>
> Maybe you should instead complain to Adobe about their *stupid* PDF
> reading software.


As I use Foxit, that wouldn't help very much, would it?


From: Symon on
On 2/25/2010 12:56 PM, rickman wrote:
>
> The other method can only be done if Altera has not write or read
> protected their data sheets. You can use a PDF editing tool to
> actually rotate the page in the document and then save it so it will
> be forever fixed.

Actually, that provoked me. You need Acrobat professional. Which isn't free.


File-> Create PDF -> from file

Document -> Rotate Pages ->
Counterclockwise 90 degrees
Landscape pages

Lovely. Maybe I will use their parts after all. It's still dumb the way
they publish the PDFs.

Syms.
From: Phil Jessop on

"Symon" <symon_brewer(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hm62ai$hlr$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> On 2/25/2010 12:56 PM, rickman wrote:
>>
>> The other method can only be done if Altera has not write or read
>> protected their data sheets. You can use a PDF editing tool to
>> actually rotate the page in the document and then save it so it will
>> be forever fixed.
>
> Actually, that provoked me. You need Acrobat professional. Which isn't
> free.
>
>
> File-> Create PDF -> from file
>
> Document -> Rotate Pages ->
> Counterclockwise 90 degrees
> Landscape pages
>
> Lovely. Maybe I will use their parts after all. It's still dumb the way
> they publish the PDFs.
>
> Syms.


If you are using the Foxit reader then load the doc, go to View => Rotate
View => clock or anticlock as desired.




From: Symon on
On 2/25/2010 5:32 PM, Phil Jessop wrote:
>
>
> If you are using the Foxit reader then load the doc, go to View => Rotate
> View => clock or anticlock as desired.
>
>
>
>
Did you even read my rant?

Load this:-

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/stratix-iv/stx4_siv51001.pdf

Look at the small writing because of the stupid wasted grey bits at the
sides of the page. (My Adobe reader only does the grey bits if you
scroll down to page 11. But then it's stuck in dumbass mode.)



They can do it right sometimes.

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/stratix-iv/stx4_5v4.pdf

No stupid grey bits, and bigger writing.

Grrrr.

Regards, Syms.