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Ditto... Adobe Acrobat (not just the 'reader', the full program) is kinda pricy...but you can get a slightly older version for cheap on eBay. I'm using v.5 and can do everything you are wanting to do. I have put several manuals together for equipment I have using scanned manual pages and can add/modify them when I need to. DUCK-WB5BNQ To create a PDF file you will have to have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, it is the only program that is able to creat them. There is a software license on that one that to my knowledge has never been broken. Mathew - Original Message - From: Mike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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This is not quite drag and drop. But... If you don't have a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you might otherwise search the web for an application called Ghostscript. You will find information that will lead you to print to a file, and then convert that to a PDF. The easy part, collecting all the page scan images into the document, is a part of Windows XP. Collect your image files into a single folder, and then double-click on one of those files to open it in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. You will then be able to preview and select the images to print to the file destined to become the PDF. Of course, you can manipulate the images with other applications. Keep in mind though, twenty-seven full page images collected into a PDF could make for a pretty large file. 73, Steve AA5SG - Original Message - From: Mike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:16 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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I use omni page pro.. if you look around you can find versions for 150.00 or so that are slightly crippled, but can handle 60 pages with no trouble. Scan the pages directly into the pdf... Doug KB8GVQ At 06:16 PM 11/20/2004, you wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Mike, one way that I solved this sometime back was to use a small program called PDFxchange. It installs in your computer as a printer driver, but outputs whatever you send to it into a *.PDF file. I used Microsoft Word, and imported the JPG's into it, page after page, and tweaked it until I got it to look the way that I wanted it. Then I printed it to the PDF Exchange thing. It created a multi page PDF file with the manual inside. You can find PDF exchange on download dot com for about $30.. Mike KA4MKG Mike WA6ILQ wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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There's also a product from http://www.daneprairie.com/products/products.htm It's called Win2PDF. I've used it before and it works great. Rod N1FNE -Original Message- From: Mike Pugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:53 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... Mike, one way that I solved this sometime back was to use a small program called PDFxchange. It installs in your computer as a printer driver, but outputs whatever you send to it into a *.PDF file. I used Microsoft Word, and imported the JPG's into it, page after page, and tweaked it until I got it to look the way that I wanted it. Then I printed it to the PDF Exchange thing. It created a multi page PDF file with the manual inside. You can find PDF exchange on download dot com for about $30.. Mike KA4MKG Mike WA6ILQ wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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I use Ghostscript myself. Simply print the image to a pdf from any windows program that can read it and print (eg Word). Works great and best of all- it's free. 73 Bill N4BKT - Original Message - From: Steve Grantham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... This is not quite drag and drop. But... If you don't have a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you might otherwise search the web for an application called Ghostscript. You will find information that will lead you to print to a file, and then convert that to a PDF. The easy part, collecting all the page scan images into the document, is a part of Windows XP. Collect your image files into a single folder, and then double-click on one of those files to open it in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. You will then be able to preview and select the images to print to the file destined to become the PDF. Of course, you can manipulate the images with other applications. Keep in mind though, twenty-seven full page images collected into a PDF could make for a pretty large file. 73, Steve AA5SG - Original Message - From: Mike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:16 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Drag the items into Word, edit --print to pdf using free GhostScript. To revise document, edit the word file, print again to PDF for new version. No difference between this and the way most people use Acrobat. PDF is a distribution medium, not a creative one. PDF= Portable Document Format. No matter what, you must first have a document needing conversion to PDF. Dragging an item direct to PDF is moot as most documents require at least a line or two of text and most items would indeed already be documents rather than simple image files. - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 1:05 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... Ok, I think you all missed what he is doing, he wants a simple drag and drop, just as the program does. Yes he can drag and drop them in any program, but to create the drag and drop, Adobe Acrobat has that feature. I can take Adobe Pagemaker and do that. But it is true, he can drag and drop in Word and then create a PDF from that, but then he is never to edit that file again. In a tru PDF, Adobe, he can make his changes, save the file, then later edit it. Three programs to do the task of one. Cumbersome it would be, but if he wants to prevent the big buck on Adobe, then yes, he could use third party programs to create the PDF files. Good Luck with the project. On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:22:59PM -0800, Mathew Quaife wrote: To create a PDF file you will have to have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, it is the only program that is able to creat them. There is a software license on that one that to my knowledge has never been broken. Not true. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Mike and Mike, try the Cute PDF Writer at http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp. It is free, and does not leave a watermark like other free PDF programs. Jason - Original Message - From: Mike Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... Mike, one way that I solved this sometime back was to use a small program called PDFxchange. It installs in your computer as a printer driver, but outputs whatever you send to it into a *.PDF file. I used Microsoft Word, and imported the JPG's into it, page after page, and tweaked it until I got it to look the way that I wanted it. Then I printed it to the PDF Exchange thing. It created a multi page PDF file with the manual inside. You can find PDF exchange on download dot com for about $30.. Mike KA4MKG Mike WA6ILQ wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Where were you before I spent the $30 to register it? :-) Oh well, my company paid for it, so at least it was spent with pretax dollars. Mike n1iic Jason Greene wrote: Mike and Mike, try the Cute PDF Writer at http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp. It is free, and does not leave a watermark like other free PDF programs. Jason - Original Message - From: Mike Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... Mike, one way that I solved this sometime back was to use a small program called PDFxchange. It installs in your computer as a printer driver, but outputs whatever you send to it into a *.PDF file. I used Microsoft Word, and imported the JPG's into it, page after page, and tweaked it until I got it to look the way that I wanted it. Then I printed it to the PDF Exchange thing. It created a multi page PDF file with the manual inside. You can find PDF exchange on download dot com for about $30.. Mike KA4MKG Mike WA6ILQ wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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To create a PDF file you will have to have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, it is the only program that is able to creat them. There is a software license on that one that to my knowledge has never been broken. Mathew - Original Message - From: Mike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Do a google search for a PDF printer driver, there are many free ones to use. Throw all of your gifs and jpegs into Word and create you document. Then, after installing a pdf printer program, you select the pdf printer as your default printer and "print" your word doc. A box will come up that lets you name the file and then it makes it a pdf. Easy as that, I use it at work all the time. You can make pdf's out of any program that prints. Tom W9SRVMike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap theassembled knowledge of the group...Is there a software package available that will letsomeone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image filesand produce a single PDF file?The current situation is 27 individual page scansfrom a Motorola manual that needs to go intoone PDF file - but there will be more in the future.Mike WA6ILQYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! Get yours free! Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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There are other third party PDF creators. Google around and you'll find them. I think there is one called PDFCreator on SourceForge.Net - Rob At 06:22 PM 11/20/2004, you wrote: To create a PDF file you will have to have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, it is the only program that is able to creat them. There is a software license on that one that to my knowledge has never been broken. Mathew - Original Message - From: Mike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.1 - Release Date: 11/19/2004 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.1 - Release Date: 11/19/2004 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Another way is to use Windows picture and fax viewer (available in XP), select all of the JPGs for printing, then send 'em to the pdf driver. That's what I use. Richard, N7TGB -Original Message-From: TGundo 2003 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:46 PMTo: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... Do a google search for a PDF printer driver, there are many free ones to use. Throw all of your gifs and jpegs into Word and create you document. Then, after installing a pdf printer program, you select the pdf printer as your default printer and "print" your word doc. A box will come up that lets you name the file and then it makes it a pdf. Easy as that, I use it at work all the time. You can make pdf's out of any program that prints. Tom W9SRVMike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap theassembled knowledge of the group...Is there a software package available that will letsomeone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image filesand produce a single PDF file?The current situation is 27 individual page scansfrom a Motorola manual that needs to go intoone PDF file - but there will be more in the future.Mike WA6ILQYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Do you Yahoo!?The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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Mike: It may be more expensive or trouble than you are looking for, but Paperport Pro 9.0 will allow you to scan directly to PDF. You can scan individual pages and Paperport allows you to drop them onto each other to stack them into a multipage document. I use Paperport 9.0 and it is an extremely useful program. After you have scanned, you can edit the document in the pageviewer mode by erasing or drawing lines or adding annotations. With grayscale or color, there is a tool that allows you to lighten or darken the page. It works fairly well. Some color scans of magazine articles will show the rumples and folds in the paper and this is a way to take them out. I have a Fujitsu FI-4120-C which is a duplex scanner that will do 25 pages per minute at 200 dpi. I can scan multiple pages into Paperport, then stack them or separate them as necessary. You can also convert to other formats, or you can import other formats to it. It also has a native format .MAX files which was proprietary to Scansoft. I can simply print these to PDF in Paperport 9.0. It has both color and monochrome drivers. I hope this is helpful. Micheal Salem N5MS Mike WA6ILQ wrote: I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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From: Mike WA6ILQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Question for the list... I've run into a situation, and thought I'd tap the assembled knowledge of the group... Is there a software package available that will let someone drag-and-drop JPG or GIF image files and produce a single PDF file? The current situation is 27 individual page scans from a Motorola manual that needs to go into one PDF file - but there will be more in the future. Mike WA6ILQ At 03:51 PM 11/20/04, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other third party PDF creators. Google around and you'll find them. I think there is one called PDFCreator on SourceForge.Net I've had that one for over a year... it's good and best of all, free. I was hoping that there would be a drag-and-drop solution... At 03:46 PM 11/20/04, TGundo 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a google search for a PDF printer driver, there are many free ones to use. Throw all of your gifs and jpegs into Word and create you document. Then, after installing a pdf printer program, you select the pdf printer as your default printer and print your word doc. A box will come up that lets you name the file and then it makes it a pdf. Easy as that, I use it at work all the time. You can make pdf's out of any program that prints. Tom W9SRV I'll try the idea of sucking them into Word and printing with it. I've got Office 2K and 256mb and PDFCreator. At 03:22 PM 11/20/04, Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To create a PDF file you will have to have the full version of Adobe Acrobat.. A friend has a copy of Acrobat Distiller 4 which was on the open-box closeout table at CompUSA and missing the manual... he never figured out how to use it and figured it was $15 down the drain... gave it to me to try and make sense of it, but I never did. Maybe the CD was defective, or something else was missing. Here's what was on it... NameSizeTypeModified Acrobat Distiller 4 File Folder 4/12/02 8:53:34 AM _INST32I.EX_291,062 EX_ File7/30/98 12:59:08 PM _ISDEL.EXE 8,704 Application 1/27/98 2:07:44 PM _SETUP.DLL 11,264 Application Extension 1/23/98 2:40:20 PM _SYS1.CAB 210,386 CAB File3/12/99 9:17:42 AM _USER1.CAB 288,426 CAB File3/12/99 9:17:46 AM Abcpy.ini 737 Configuration Settings 2/17/99 10:14:20 AM DATA.TAG114 TAG File3/12/99 9:17:48 AM DATA1.CAB 15,314,495 CAB File3/12/99 9:19:02 AM LANG.DAT4,525 DAT File10/20/97 10:20:28 AM LAYOUT.BIN 334 BIN File3/12/99 9:19:02 AM LEGENDS.NFO 6,355 MSInfo Document 4/22/99 11:07:42 PM OS.DAT 417 DAT File5/6/97 2:15:20 PM SETUP.EXE 60,416 Application 1/22/98 10:08:28 PM SETUP.INI 75 Configuration Settings 3/12/99 9:17:48 AM SETUP.INS 110,321 Internet Communication Settings 3/12/99 9:17:20 AM SETUP.LID 49 LID File3/12/99 9:19:02 AM At 04:01 PM 11/20/04, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way is to use Windows picture and fax viewer (available in XP), select all of the JPGs for printing, then send 'em to the pdf driver. That's what I use. Richard, N7TGB H All the more reason to upgrade (?) from Win98. Was holding off until I had a P4 chip at a gig or more ... right now the main box is a P3-500... How do you select which sequence to make them print? maybe rename them and let the natural sort sequence handle it? Any other comments? Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
