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

Shel Horowitz shel at principledprofit.com
Sun Mar 6 08:28:26 EST 2016


Yes, and I upgrade whenever it makes sense. My 10.9 laptop started with
10.6 and my 10.5 desktop was shipped with I think 10.4. However, the
desktop cannot run 10.6 or newer, and as you note, 10.9 is a better choice
than its successors.

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On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com <
chris at chrishart.net> wrote:

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> 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 no longer being updated for security purposes.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.
>
> ________________________________________________
> Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,
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>
> Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger,
> poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change
>
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>
> * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
> * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame
>
> http://goingbeyondsustainability.com
> http://transformpreneur.com
> mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388
> Award-winning, best-selling (8th) book:
> Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)
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>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com
> <http://mymactech.com> <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*
>>     * Computer Support & Technology Consulting*
>> *        for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts*
>> *            Tel: 860-291-9393 <860-291-9393>*
>> *                chris at chrishart.net <chris at chrishart.net>*
>> *                    http://www.MyMacTech.com <http://www.mymactech.com/>*
>>
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Shel Horowitz <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,
>> ________________________________________________
>> Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,
>> "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"
>> *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809
>> <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>*
>>
>> Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger,
>> poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change
>>
>> Twitter: @shelhorowitz
>>
>> * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
>> * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame
>>
>> http://goingbeyondsustainability.com
>> http://transformpreneur.com
>> mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388
>> Award-winning, best-selling (8th) book:
>> Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)
>> Coming in April: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World
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