SC

I suspect that it is slower and that you get a larger file size with PDF but it is better than JPEG for documents.

JPEG is designed for pictures and as it compresses the image, the saved version is never quite as good as the original. PDF is designed for documents and should reproduce them perfectly. Make sure that you have a decent program to create them though - their must be a reason why Adobe get away with charging so much.

Thanks, we just need to be able to read the documents, not analyse them. Will go with jpeg I think.

SC
If you use JPEG to copy documents I have found that if you try to enlarge them the print goes to pixels very quickly and are unreadable on screen. SD

You might like to have a look at this:

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

Brief Description
This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.

That looks good Exec. We run Office 2003 at work but I have 2007 at home & on my lappy so it'll be useful for that.

BTW had a look at the Samknows website. That's an excellent resource. I see the only LLU we have at home is for Talk Talk, which I kind of knew anyway, but would like to see others doing it soon.

You could try the open office word clone which can export pdf files as standard.

There is also

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

which gets installed as a printer and you can then write a pdf file from any software that has a print feature. You print and then select PDFcreator as you printer. It then lets you save, email etc.

My wife's e:mail address has received 51 spam messages over the last twelve hours. Almost all are the same text but all are from different addresses.

This spam has been building over the last few days.

All my mail reader has done is to pick up the headers and a few lines of body.

It will take two seconds to junk them at compuserve which is our mail server.

But, is there something more effective that I should do?

From my point of view this is no big deal - but 1,000 a day would be tedious!

TP

If your mail program lets you view 'full headers' then copy just the part that says something like this below. Then go to this web site

http://www.ip-adress.com/trace_email/

and paste the received details into the window provided. It will tell you the real source of the email. The one below is Nigeria. I did one the other day and the map it gave could be zoomed in to a specific house in Japan. You could then go round and knock on their door.


Received: from 67.195.9.86 (HELO n3.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com) (67.195.9.86) by mta165.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:42:41 -0800
Received: from [67.195.9.82] by n3.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Dec 2008 01:41:57 -0000
Received: from [67.195.9.111] by t2.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Dec 2008 01:40:50 -0000
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Dec 2008 01:38:59 -0000
Received: (qmail 25320 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Dec 2008 01:38:59 -0000

Sounds like your wife has posted her email address on a bulletin board or a web classified ad.

TP

It is likely that the 51 emails are being sent from 51 different hijacked computers so knowing who sent them does not help you much.

The easiest way to deal with them is to create a rule that identifies the text and shunts it into a junk folder. The only problem is that they will keep changing the text.

I'm not sure whether Outlook Express supports rules, but Outlook certainly does so does the free Mozilla Thunderbird.

Haystack,

The web site works. So far I have found Brazil and Macedonia. Not all that convenient for knee-capping from SW6 !!

Kayak,

Unlikely as she never uses a computer. We set up the mailbox for ease of communication with the members of her amdram group (rehearsals etc). They operate cast mailing lists so something could have leaked from one of those mailing.

Oh well. With luck it will die away.

TP

Opt,

It's no problem cleaning them out with nPOPw. I just thought I'd be a good citizen and try to help Inspector Plod.

TP

One of the ways that spammers pick up email addresses is from joke emails that encourage you to forward to all your friends. Try to discourage people from sending them to you.

"One of the ways that spammers pick up email addresses is from joke emails that encourage you to forward to all your friends."

That's probably it then. One of the cast is very much into that and I admit that we do look at them.

TP

Every time a certain friend sends me an email it arrives with a paperclip in the messages received list although she has not sent an attachment. Similarly, she tells me, messages she receives also have paperclips in her received list. Anyone any idea what's going on? She's running XP and Outlook Express 6 with AVG antivirus.

It's the AVG message at the bottom of the page to say that there are no viruses in the incoming message. You can stop this by going to the AVG user interface/tools/advanced settings/e-mail scanner/certifications & unchecking the box or deleting the text if using version 8.

Thanks Harry. I'll pass it on.

Good morning Harry - Having passed on your advice my friend came back with this: 'None of my AVG windows have a "tools", I cannot find any "advanced settings" or boxes to uncheck. I will keep looking but life is probably too short!'

Where should she start her search? BTW its the free version of AVG. If she wasn't 50 miles away I'd go round and have a look myself.

Open up the AVG user interface by right clicking the little icon down in the system tray at the bottom right of the Windows screen & left click the Interface heading (assuming you are using the Version 8. Version 7 is roughly the same but I think the system tray menu is slightly different). Then ignore all the icons in the middle of the page, but go to the very top left of the page & there will be the same as you see on a normal IE page (File, View, Edit etc) Open the Tools option, then the Advanced tab, then e-mail scanner, then certifications & delete the text in the 'Outgoing e-mail message'. In version 7 I think it's the same procedure, but that there is a box which you un-tick to prevent the anti-virus message being added. If you go to the 'E-mail scanner' option there will be more info there.

Many thanks again Harry. We'll give it another go.