Help with the PDFs

klortho
 August 28, 2008, 01:34 PM posted in General Discussion

Disclaimer:  I'm new here.  Maybe this question belongs in a different group, but I couldn't find a good one. Is there a group for general (technical) questions about this site?

My question is, I'm having trouble cutting-and-pasting from the PDF transcript files into other programs.  Is this a "feature", or am I doing something wrong?  I just want to print out the transcripts in a smaller format, so as not to waste so much paper. 

Note -- I just have the Basic subscription.  I suspect that maybe to get editable text I need to pay more money -- is that right?

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henning
 August 28, 2008, 01:38 PM

klortho,

the solution to your problem is well-hidden:

In the footer of the PDF you find a link "(text version)" that leads you to a HTML-version of the respective transcript.

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klortho
 August 29, 2008, 02:42 PM

Thanks, that's great!  What about the first part of my question?  I expect I'll have lots of these kinds of questions -- is this the right place to ask?

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lostinasia
 August 29, 2008, 03:04 PM

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to really be a tech section - there are many self-standing posts where people ask questions that usually get answered, but then the posts get buried.

I set up the group Mac users of ChinesePod to provide a tech/ link section for a small subset of users, but I think there should be a better and more organized way set up by ChinesePod. Many users have the same valid questions, and they keep getting asked again and again, but unfortunately previous answers are really hard to find!

Or maybe you've hit upon the purpose of the ChinesePod Inner Circle group. I've always wondered what this group was for, beyond providing a first test group.

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klortho
 August 30, 2008, 03:27 AM

嗯, thanks!

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mattahmet
 October 07, 2008, 12:05 PM

If you want to save paper, you should be able to set your printer to print "booklet" style, which will fit each page on a half-sheet, and then it can be folded into a booklet. That's what I do. :)

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MuampHeadphones
 October 07, 2008, 01:17 PM

Henning,

Thanks for that obvious answer, only it wasn't obvious to me until you answered klortho's question.

I asked that same question in a Newbie lesson a long time ago, but no one answered.