[Hidden-tech] little rant about OSX -- was: PDF help, please

Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com chris at chrishart.net
Sat Mar 5 18:47:33 EST 2016


I can appreciate your perspective, but it's also possible to make reasonable upgrades along the way, which benefit you and don't hurt you.  For example, OSX 10.6 is a better OS than 10.5.  But at this point both are no longer being updated for security purposes.  This matter of security, plus the lack of support for older OS versions by software developers, show you why it's good to progressively upgrade your system software now and then, instead of keeping the same operating system on your computer that it came with out of the box.  Because doing that makes your older computer less useful that much sooner.

FYI, I believe 10.8 and onward are the only Mac operating systems that are really actively being updated with security fixes.  10.9 is a really nice sweet spot for older hardware, as it doesn't slow them down too much, or at all and is very much still being supported with security updates.  Yes, OSX 10.10 and 10.11 are bad choices for older hardware, due the performance degradation.

Chris Hart
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> On Mar 5, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Chris (and the several others who privately wrote with basically the same idea). Yes, that worked beautifully.
> 
> A little rant:
> Chris, my workhorse computer for the past year and a half has been a 2012 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.9 (I've been advised NOT to update to Yosemite or El Capitan). However, I keep my 10.5 desktop around for certain functions (writing resumes and using the scanner, primarily), and I'd thought I had a non-cloud version of Adobe Reader on it (I didn't). 10.5 is indeed an orphan, with programs like Dropbox and Skype yanking away the ability to use their software and numerous websites not displaying properly, so I basically had no choice. But I miss my big screen (not enough to buy one), and I resent certain software forcing me onto the cloud. And I deeply resent the decisions of Dropbox and Skype to stop allowing users with old hardware to use products that were functioning perfectly well. It wouldn't bother me if they merely stopped upgrading them, but disabling is unconscionable. I also miss Eudora, which has never been able to run on anything newer than 10.5. It was when Eudora broke that I switched my primary machine. I've never found an email program as good--though I've grown to like GMail's device-independence, if not anything else.
> 
> I like to use things until they're used up. Our cars are 2004 and 2005 models. I don't like the forced obsolescence of perfectly good hardware.
> 
> OK, done ranting.
> 
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> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com <chris at chrishart.net <mailto:chris at chrishart.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> First, I would urge you to get off of OSX 10.5 which is way out of date and no longer receiving security updates.
> 
> I think Preview, even in 10.5, allows for simplistic PDF editing.
> 
> First step would be to make a PDF of the first page that you want in the finished document.
> 
> Then create a duplicate in the Finder of the document that you want to source the pages from.
> 
> Open the duplicate.
> 
> Go to the View menu and choose thumbnails
> 
> The sidebar showing thumbnails of the pages will appear
> 
> Drag the first page PDF into the top of the list of thumbnails to insert it as the first page
> 
> Then click once on the thumbnails of the pages that you don't want in the finished document
> 
> Hit the delete key to delete the page
> 
> (If you want to delete a range of pages, do one click on the first one, then shift-click on the last one)
> 
> You should ultimately end up with a PDF that has only the pages you want
> 
> Save it and you're done
> 
> Chris Hart
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> 
>> On Mar 5, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com <mailto:shel at principledprofit.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I need to make a sampler from a PDF that would consist of two new pages at the beginning plus 9 specific page ranges from the original. I have Adobe Reader DC and plain Adobe Reader on my OS 10.5 desktop, on my laptop but not the full Acrobat.
>> 
>> It seems that Reader won't allow me to make a subset PDF from a PDF by using the print-to-PDF option. I looked online for a solution and didn't find one.
>> 
>> Could someone either point me toward a software tool that can do this or provide me with ten minutes of access to a computer (Amherst/Northampton area) that has the full Acrobat installed?
>> 
>> Thanks,
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>> Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,
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>> poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change
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>> * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame
>> 
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>> mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com <mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com> * 413-586-2388 <tel:413-586-2388>
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