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How to bind files to PDF with eXpert PDF Creator

2014/06/23 plagwitz Leave a comment

I tried PDF Editor (mind you, old version! 6 which I still have around from a promotion – nice software, though) first, including its help.
Use Batch Creator instead,
uncheck “Create multiple Documents”
then you will be prompted for a (new) filename for the bound files.
Then click the “save” icon in the upper right menu.

2014/05/08 plagwitz Leave a comment

… proved easier than 2012 (thanks, Richard ), but still not for the faint of heart…
I got it to work , despite an update release of ver 1.6 – once again like in 2012 – in the middle of my installation travails.
Read all about those in here.

2014/04/09 plagwitz Leave a comment

Which computers
1. This I found on the Reception desk
2. but isn’t that then also wrong on all student pcs which have the same base image?
Which exceptions missing: I noticed immediately:
1. outlook.com
2. www.uncc.edu should read uncc.edu
Which browsers
1. Example is IE9,
2. But are others different?

2014/04/09 plagwitz Leave a comment

Problem: Since last week (or so; interestingly, only individual users seem to have been affected at first), we seem to experiencing regular (but not consistent) issues with meeting requests mostly
1. slowness
2. browser-specific behavior
  1. internet explorer 9: crashes
  2. chrome: crashes
  3. Firefox: (sometimes just seems to hang, with some coercion can bring up an “unresponsive script” warning dialogue that a script is hanging:
Workaround:
1. Best so far: if you see the Firefox warning dialogue, check “do not warn again” and click on “continue”(?)
2. we will try to look into common browser configuration (like popup blockers).
Root cause: ?

Firefox provides only this help on unresponsive script error;
the slowness could be in the actual script, on the client, in the network, on the server…

2014/04/04 plagwitz Leave a comment

What’s with the non-existent path hard-coded here? Missing path delimiter? But that is not enoguh to fix the path: There is a student.settings in C:\ProgramData\Sanako\Study\Student\Tutor.Settings – not sure why tutorplayer is not accessing this file.
Which is double annoying since I just had to enable MFF as default recording save format for some teachers that need dual track support which is buggy with MP3.

2014/04/03 plagwitz Leave a comment

Is this maybe what happens when Themeswitcher crashes: While the desktop background still gets changed, the Colorscheme does not get set to Basic? How to avoid the crashing FileIOException? What fileIO may a colorscheme change require?
Disruption is the least of the problem: The warning comes up when computers become dangerously slow. In the past, they have become disfunctional during these episodues and needed to be power-cycled. This has resulted in loss of assignment and assessment materials.