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

[Arthur Fuller]

Thanks, Stuart. I confess that I've never even tried to open a PDF using
Word.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:47 PM Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> MS Word generally doesn't do a bad job of converting  PDFs back to Word
> when you tell it to
> open one.
>
> The Adobe online tool isn't bad either:
> https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-to-word.html
>
>
>
> On 22 Mar 2023 at 21:28, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>
> > 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 5:17PM 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 12:22PM 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 11:22PM 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