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Thanks for everyone's help, BTW. I told my boss that some "friends" had said that the number of people I was sending the email to shouldn't cause the returned emails if I'm BCC'ing the names, and she had me email our useless tech guy and ask him, so hopefully he'll concur and I can go back to sending them to 300 people at a time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'm not sure if spam filters even "bounce" emails, don't they just file them away separately or delete them?)

Some do bounce them at the server - it depends how they're configured. Some servers will bounce mail that has nothing in the To: field, because of spammers using the BCC: field to send an email to hundreds of addresses at once (as described above).

At my last job, we had a (legit) mailing list with a couple of thousand addresses on it, and would receive a couple of hundred bounces on each run, from out-of-date addresses, full mailboxes, and so on. To send, though, we used a simple Perl script I wrote to generate a separate email for each recipient and pause a few seconds between each one; it avoided overloading our mailserver.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus if you're clever like Caitlin, you can have people's names in the database and you can send out e-mails that say "Dear Nick" in them. And you can use the "to:" field, thus avoiding the "bcc blockers". It's dreamy!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sebastien, Diskwarrior or drive 10 may well be your friend here. Diskwarrior has saved my main disk on more than one occasion.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I owe a big "THANK YOU" to everyone who replied to my question. I did a test this morning. I sent an email to 100 recipients. I got 7 undelivered returns. So I resent the email to each of those 7 people individually, and they bounced back again, proving that the problem is with the addresses, not the way I'm sending them. I took this to my boss, and now I can send the emails in large batches again, saving me huge loads of time, which I can spend on ILX. EVERYONE WINS, HOORAH!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

did your boss give you a big kiss on the forehead?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

No, she didn't really give a shit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

at least she didn't give a shit on your forehead!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is my (Windows) computer showing some apostrophes/single quotes as blocks? For instance this - ’ - appears as a speckled square, and this - ”- as a black square. Does everyone else see this in this post at least? Meanwhile, the apostrophe in slocki's post immediately above is fine.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, the very writing of the problem cleared my mind, and IE was set to the wrong language as seemed immediately obvious.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an important question.

I am filling in a LOT of application forms at the moment (just under 60) - a great majority of them come in .pdf form. of course this means that I have to print these off and fill them in by hand instead of my usual cut & paste technique. is there any way that I can 'edit' .pdf files i.e. so I can fill these forms in electronically?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

you will save at least a small part of my life.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You could scrounge up a copy of Acrobat, maybe.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, you need the full (paid for) Acrobat to do this, not the (free) reader.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

A quick Google search lists some programs that claim to be able to edit pdf files. Another possibility would be to find a program that can convert pdf's to another format, like a Word document and do your editing through that.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Saturday, 11 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a hoonja doonja.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, at the beginning of this week my Firefox browser just stopped working. Seriously. It will open a window, but not connect to any site. It's not even trying, I'll put in a url or a bookmark and NOTHING HAPPENS. WTF?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

: /

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

All that said, PDF files are kind of annoying to deal with in the way that you're hoping to. It might be easier to just print them out like you've been doing.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

dude 60!!! hand-written! examples of teamwork and overcoming adversity! : / !!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

'dude 60' should be someone's new name.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, just type them out in word and cut and paste using scissors and glue!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You could get a stamp made.

I have no idea why you are filling out 60 application forms. That seems like a poor strategy to me. Concentrate on maybe a dozen that you really want, and are best suited to. But that do I know?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I am only saying 60 to sound cool.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

it'll end up being around 20.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Despite his whining, cozen really really likes filling out forms.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it's the thing I'm good at.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

some of these might allow you to do what you need. the pdf-to-doc converters are pretty much all shareware, but might work for a couple days or something.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The formatting is likely to go all screwy and the employers will go humph.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a question.

I have a Photoshop file I'm making on this printerless computer. Some of the layers use the type tool. If I take it to print on another Photoshop-equipped computer that doesn't have the font I have used installed, will it still be OK?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, why is it that in Photohop, if I zoom in on the text, it looks all... fuzzy (don't know the technical name for this), rather than neat and vectory, like if I do it in Word or QuarkXpress? I mean, it's still editable text - I haven't converted it to being a pixellated layer or whatever. Is it going to print fuzzy too?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Check yr text antialias/aliasing settings.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah - there's an icon for that that I'd toggled between. If I turn anti-aliasing off then it just looks spidery and even worse.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

if you flatten the image it will print fine.
otherwise the other verison of photoshop wil have to use another font if it does not have yours. this can mess things up. if you don't want to flatten it you could also bring your font with you and install it on the other machine. or simply render the type layer (you won't be able to edit the copy after that tho).

― dysøn (dyson), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks - it was all OK.

I didn't flatten it and it was OK - it just came up with a message saying that the text on that layer wouldn't be editable, as the font wasn't installed. I ended up switching it to another font on that machine anyway, because the of the second problem, which turned out to be that because I had started from an image that I'd got off the web, with low resolution - this low-res of course affected everything else that I added to it. D'oh!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

something totally insane just happened to my powerbook!

i set it to dial on internet connect and left it for a second... when i came back the screen was all black and full of scrolling text, talking about some sort of "switchback error"! i restarted and things seem fine but WTF?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

kernel panic maybe?

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My kernel panics have been more low-key affairs; just a shaded screen with some code on it. No scrolling or black screens. They happened when I plugged in a digital camera via a USB port to the computer. I guess os x didn't know what it was and crashed...

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it was a kernel panic!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, apparently I have the bloodhound exploit.6 virus on my home pc. Norton doesn't recognize it and cannot delete or quarantine it. Im trying to run panda softwares pandascan to check for it but it won't run. It tells me active x is not working or installing. How the fuck do i get active x to work?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you found the key under the sword in the dungeon yet?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

One way to get around font issues in Photoshop is to select Layer | Type | Convert To Shape - this will turn the text into vector graphics. You still won't be able to edit it - BUT, you will be able to resize the image keeping the text sharp.

Another workaround is to save the file as a PDF and print from the other machine using Acrobat Reader or similar program. DO NOT open the file in Photoshop or you will be forced to rasterise it (Making the text a bitmap graphic rather than a vector).

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I thought I had posted this somewhere, but I guess not. I have a cheap HP desktop printer, with a color cartridge and a black ink cartridge. The color cartridge is out of everything but red, so if I try to print a picture or whatever, it just comes out in shades of red. This isn't a problem, since I mainly just print out stuff for my own use. HOWEVER, I also need to print out my resume. My resume was created using the Microsoft Word resume wizard, and it has lines under the various categories (education, experience, etc.). This lines print out as pink for some reason, even though the rest of the text is in black. If I change my print options to grayscale, it's the same thing, pink lines on my resume. I can't just take out the color cartridge because the printer doesn't like not having a cartridge in there and won't work without it. And I can't figure out how to take the lines off of my resume: they're not underlines, they don't seem to be images, I don't know what they are. Ideas on how to either a) get the lines to print in black ink instead of pink, or b) erase the lines from my resume?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe copy it and paste it into Notepad or whatever plain ASCII program you have, then back into Word, then reformat without the lines?

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You could also try saving it in RTF format or maybe an earlier Word format and reopening it that way. If you're lucky you might be able to lose the pink lines without losing all of the other formatting.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

But the lines aren't pink or even in color on the screen, so I'm not sure why they're even printing out pink?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Most likely whatever color they are on the screen has some red in it, but since all the other colors are out, only the pink is showing up.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink can be nice.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

But then why do the lines look black on the screen? And why doesn't grayscale print mode work either? ARGH!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They could be a very dark brown perhaps? I don't know why the grayscale option doesn't work. Sometimes there's an option that says Use Black Ink only or something, try looking at all the Printer properties tabs.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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