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Adobe CS6/Acrobat problem

June 28, 2012 Jim 1 Comment

Yesterday my scanning program hung converting a scanned document to a PDF. Suspicious, I tried to launch Acrobat X without success. I poked around on the web and found out that there’s a widespread problem with CS6: a month after activation, Acrobat sometimes stops working. I … [Read more...]

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A love note to a printer

June 26, 2012 Jim Leave a Comment

I usually report here on technology gone wrong. Today, I’d like to change that and write a little love letter to my Epson 9800. It occurred to me that I hadn’t used the printer for a long time – I’m using my 4900 for most everything these days – so I decided to print something … [Read more...]

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Not-so-rapid delivery

June 26, 2012 Jim Leave a Comment

I decided to get a portable computer with a display bright enough to read in sunlight so I’d have more flexibility in my slit-scan picture taking. I settled on a Panasonic Toughbook, and ordered one through Rapid Access, one of their dealers. The chronology went like … [Read more...]

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Autopano Giga Abendings

June 16, 2012 Jim 5 Comments

I use Kolor Autopano Giga for stitching, and recently I’ve been trying to work with forty of fifty panoramas at a time. I’ve gotten tired of looking at this: Murphy was right. I usually get the message when I have a lot of unsaved files open. AutoPano doesn’t have a … [Read more...]

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Moving Photoshop plugins to CS6

May 15, 2012 Jim 1 Comment

I upgraded from Adobe CS6 Design Premium to Adobe CS6 Design Premium a few days ago. The upgrade appeared to go well. I ran Photoshop CS6 successfully for two days. It looked pretty solid, so I set about moving my plugins over to the new version. I know, I know, I should really … [Read more...]

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