[dba-Tech] Recommended free software: was Re: Office security issue CVE-2023-23397

[Arthur Fuller]

Seeing these lists and their references to various PDF-writing and -reading
tools, I wonder if there exists an opposite tool -- one that can open a PDF
and save its contents as, say, a Word file. Anyone know of such a beast?

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 5:17 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Classic Shell
> Firefox
> Veracrypt
>
> SQLite studio
> Visual Studio Code
> Geany
> VNC Viewer
> Kindle
> Libre Office
> Virtual Box
> Python 3.11
> Bitwarden
> 7zip
> Davinci Resolve
> OBS Studio
> Touch Portal
> Reaper (although I paid for this after awhile)
> Transcribe!
> Winamp
> Open Morrowind
> Tunnel Bear
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:22 PM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > VLC Media Player? I find it able to play just about anything.
> >
> > I used to use PrimoPDF but I find that the Windows PDF printer is just
> > fine.
> >
> > I use Everything almost every day (that I'm working).
> >
> > I use the free edition of Musescore for writing and playing music for
> > practice. It's also good for transposing the key and printing out a new
> > lead sheet.
> >
> > Lightshot for screen captures - very flexible.
> >
> > MicroTorrent
> >
> > BitDefender
> >
> > Spybot
> >
> > CCleaner
> >
> > Team Viewer
> >
> > MDBDiff
> >
> > There's probably more.
> >
> > r
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:22 PM Stuart McLachlan <
> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 22 Mar 2023 at 4:40, John Bartow wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a large list of open
> > > > source and free apps that I can install - update - remove with a
> click
> > > > of my RMM scripts for friends. Of those apps there have been very few
> > > > that have impressed me to the point of qualifying for a post here.
> > > >
> > > > John B
> > >
> > > I guess an interesting thread here would be something like:  the top
> > 10(?)
> > > recommended
> > > open source and free apps that I regularly recommend to friends.  :)
> > >
> > > I'll start - off the top of my head:
> > >
> > > For general use, I'd start with
> > > Irfanview
> > > Foxit PDF Reader
> > > Bullzip PDF printer
> > > Notepad++
> > > Everything
> > > Terracopy
> > > VideoLan
> > >
> > > Then there are the more specific ones which depend on their interests
> and
> > > tasks.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Stuart
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Arthur