Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.014 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'creighton': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'itself.': 0.11; 'wed,': 0.15; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'remembered': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'instance,': 0.18; 'laura': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; '2015': 0.20; 'saying': 0.22; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'nearly': 0.23; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'all.': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'chris': 0.26; "i'm": 0.30; 'subject:/': 0.30; 'software,': 0.32; 'language.': 0.32; 'maybe': 0.33; 'point': 0.33; 'useful': 0.33; 'problem': 0.33; 'limitations': 0.33; 'file': 0.34; 'heard': 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'operating': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'pdf': 0.37; 'things': 0.38; 'creation': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'format': 0.39; 'rather': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'documents': 0.61; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'needs,': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'adobe': 0.66; 'jul': 0.72; '+1000,': 0.84; 'actually,': 0.84; 'chrisa': 0.84; 'mum': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'folk': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Can I copy/paste Python code? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:47:32 +0100 References: <0f0c6018-50e7-4e95-a798-313d767ce177@googlegroups.com> <201507211725.t6LHPW1Y028074@fido.openend.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-146-11-234.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: <201507211725.t6LHPW1Y028074@fido.openend.se> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1437551279 news.xs4all.nl 2836 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:40874 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94352 On 21/07/2015 18:25, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:48:06 +1000, Chris Angelico writes: >> Actually, maybe don't use PDF at all. I keep having to help my Mum >> deal with stupid problems with PDF documents she gets, and I'm never >> sure whether the fault is with the PDF creation software, the human >> operating said software, or limitations in the file format itself. >> >> ChrisA > > Lots of the problems are with the free reader, adobe acrobat. It is > designed so that the user is kept very much in a straight-jacket which > is a problem when your Mum needs, for instance, things to be in 36 point > for her to be able to read things at all because she is nearly blind. > > Laura > Just remembered alternativeto.net which is a rather useful site if you're looking for a replacement for some app. Just saying as I'm sure some folk will have heard of it, others won't. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence