Xml2PDF HotFolder version 0.9 beta November 3, 2004 Altsoft N.V.
Altsoft N.V. announces the beta release of the new HotFolder edition of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.
Xml2PDF Hotfolder is either a server or a client side application for automatic convertion of XSL-FO, SVG, XSLT and XHTML to PDF. It traces all incomming XSL-FO / SVG / XHTML [...]
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Article Writing & Marketing: 3 Great Advantages
Friday, May 8th, 2009Article writing and marketing is one of the most powerful ways to build your business. This applies to your area of expertise, whatever business you are in.
This is because articles are articles are articles. Articles work in any business.
While there are many clear advantages to writing and marketing articles, the three most powerful are an [...]
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Increasing Your Message Odds
Monday, May 4th, 2009Sometimes media gurus like me get too fancy. We teach clients all sorts of subtle ways to bridge back to message points and to weave message points subtly into an answer. But sometimes the best approach is to be direct-and I mean really direct.
If you are walking into a morning local TV talk show and [...]
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Which Witch is Which? Part II: D-H
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009Below you will find a little list to help you out. I have not only alphabetize them but cross-referenced them as well.
dam………….holds back water
damn…………a curse
dammed……….prevented from flowing
damned……….cursed
darn…………mend
darne………..a fish steak
days…………more than one day
daze…………to bewilder
dear…………beloved
deer…………venison
dew………….morning condensation
do…………..perform
due………….payable
die………….become dead [...]
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Secret of My Success
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009It’s a vicious circle. Whether you’re seeking publication with magazine articles or long stories, everyone wants to see your “clips”, instances of previous publication. Yet to get clips, you have to get published. As Michael J. Fox complained in the 1987 movie “Secret of My Success”, no one will give you experience because you don’t [...]
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Authors In Vintage Movies: Primrose Path (1940 US black and white)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Adapted from the book February Hill by Victoria Lincoln
Ginger Rogers as Ellie May Adams
Joel McCrea as Ed Wallace
Marjorie Rambeau as Mamie Adams
Henry travers as Gramp
Miles Mander as Homer Adams
Queenie Vassar as Grandma
Joan Carroll as Honeybell Adams
Vivienne Osborne as Thelma
Carmen Morales as Carmelita
As we wonder what the [...]
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Online Article Writers and Negative Article Comments
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Any author who has a book for sale on Amazon.com know that often sales will slow down when readers or purchasers of a book make a negative comment on their books. Well the same thing is occurring on online article submission sites where people rate articles and comment. Unfortunately since many online article authors and [...]
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How Ordinary People Are Making Thousands of Dollars From Internet Information Publishing
Friday, April 24th, 2009Johanes Gutenberg, the 15th century German who invented the printing press died a poor man and failed as a businessman. Yet his invention revolutionized publishing and made untold fortunes for publishers all over the world. The penniless German was responsible for the birth of mass media as we have always known it, where a handful [...]
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Public Speaking: Getting the Room Set-up Right
Friday, April 24th, 2009I don’t know why it is, but no matter how carefully I brief a hotel on the room set-up I want for my seminars, workshops and training meetings, more often than not when I arrive, they have provided a standard hotel room set up. What I find even more alarming is the number of [...]
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When Characters Swap Names: Two Methods to Re-energize Your Fiction
Sunday, April 19th, 2009You’ve been writing for months, grabbing hold of every spare moment of the evening or perhaps, early morning. Characters who’ve loved, laughed and endured hardship together now seem caught in a wormhole that has frozen them in time.
It’s happened! The dreaded writer’s block has hit your keyboard. You give it a day [...]
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