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Now That's Thinking
I just purchased an upgrade to Apago’s excellent PDF Shrink app, which does the best job I’ve found of any app for compressing PDFs. Going the Print to PDF route in OS X is super convenient but with image-heavy files (say PPTs) it creates very bloaty files due to how it treats images. PDF Shrink cuts them down to size much better than the Compress PDF function in Preview, retaining image quality far better.
Anyway, I got the email with the new license key, and in anticipation of having to paste it into a registration dialog once, I copied it into my clipboard. Once PDF Shrink started up, this dialog appeared:
Now that’s thinking ahead. Just click Yes and it’s all done.
Why didn’t anybody else think of that?
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I think some other apps do that
Raena Jackson Armitage - July 13, 2009
But instead of asking, they just populate the field. I believe Ableton Live is one. It's such a nice thing to do :)
Boring Linux..
IWriteAboutIT - July 13, 2009
Linux doesn't require registration keys at all.
Just boring..
Tom
Many EA games (and IIRC the
Fowl - July 13, 2009
Many EA games (and IIRC the office 07 installer) prepopulate the field from the clipboard also. It's a nice touch.
and many keygens will paste
asf - July 13, 2009
and many keygens will paste the key into the target app for you etc.