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I hate to Impose but

Submitted by dpihl on May 26, 2009 - 9:51am

PDF readers are all well and good. But what I'd really like to do is find a way to make booklets. This is something that requires a whole lot of "Imposing".

First you need a way to combine different pages into a single PDF file. Sometimes this requires resizing of one or more pages so they're uniform in size. Sometimes this requires cropping, and some times it requires "padding" the borders. Sometimes it requires scaling the whole page.

A workaround is to "print" the page to a virtual printer where you can specify the paper size, and then click "fit to page".

catacombae

Submitted by dpihl on May 26, 2009 - 9:36am

It seems to me there are dozens of ways it would be helpful if a portable app could make Macintosh HFS and HFS+ formatted disks readable on Windows.

Inasmuch as this one is open source, I assume it would be possible?
http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html

In particular, it would be handy of some sort of disk cataloging software like Cathy were able to catalog the contents of Mac formatted diskettes and CDs.
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/

TrueCrypt - please can we have portable app version?

Submitted by Roy22 on May 25, 2009 - 12:21pm

I know there's Toucan for encryption, but many users here will know & love the ever powerful and flexible TrueCrypt. Currently on v6.2, and both open source and freeware forever, I'm sure I'd not be the only person to appreciate the inclusion of this utility, pretty well unsurpassed and so widely used.

So, is there any chance...?

Prism (by Mozilla)

Submitted by markzander61 on May 22, 2009 - 5:30pm

I searched around and haven't found anything current. There are a few threads from over a year ago about this, but nothing current. Is anybody working on it or planning to work on it? I'd sure like to have a portable version - or know how to make it portable.

-Mark

Lan.FS Network Tool

Submitted by alleinherrscher on May 22, 2009 - 7:17am

Hi @ all!

I would like to introduce Lan.FS, which is an Network Messenger, File Transferer and Administrative Command Tool (Remote Desktop, Remote Filemanager, Remote Task Manager and so on)

The Tool can be started without installing it.

The original website is: www.lan-fs.de

All we have to do is copying the Files from Program Directory C:\Program Files\Lan.FS and the Profile Folder, located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Lan.FS into a new folder on an USB Device.

//edit: I uploaded a portable app version to:
http://www.lan-fs.de/Lanfs_portableapp.zip

Aptana Studio

Submitted by flofies on May 21, 2009 - 12:11am

I know that there's an older post requesting Aptana and your response was that i would come when Java Portable was ready...
Well, it's been almost 2 to years - sorry for pointing that out - but I'd really like to know if there's any news regarding this subject; I've been using Kompozer for 1 year but I recently downloaded Aptana Studio and I have to say it's way better in at least 3 different areas.

Thanks in advance

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