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Network Scanner (4/27/11)

A new touch screen networked scanner has been installed in the printer room, so there is no more need to wait for the other scanner machines to free up. You can scan to email, a usb drive, or a network share. Instructions are posted right above it. It will do color and 2-sided scans.

Editing PDFs (4/25/11)

Open Office is now installed on all of the lab machines, which will give you the same PDF editing capabilities as the full version of Acrobat (without the expensive license). Open up 'Open Office Draw' from the Start menu, then open the PDF file and you can delete or copy in pages from other files in the left panel or click the little 'T' icon on the bottom toolbar to edit the text. (As with Adobe, if the PDF was generated as an image or scanned, then editing probably won't be possible, but PDFs generated from Office docs or other programs should work okay.) After editing, choose File --> Export as PDF and you'll have options for compression and image resolution that can help you shrink the file size if necessary. If you want to download it for your own machine, here are the links for Open Office and the PDF import extension.

Profile/Login Issues (4/11/11)

If you're one of the people who would periodically be unable to login because "The user profile service failed to load", the issue was Windows 7 caching temporary internet files from Internet Explorer which it subsequently was unable to copy. The issue should now be resolved.

ArcGIS SP1 (4/5/11)

For those of you in the GIS class, Service Pack 1 is now installed on all the lab machines, so queries should work as expected in Windows 7.