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Ah the drop bears, those are reserved for hot Swedish tourists -

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# is an anchor, an instruction to the browser on how to display the page, it is never sent to the server as part of the URL by a browser. Your application should create a valid URL by removing the #. ICS does not validate the URL for illegal content. Angus

Last year I might have suggested QuickPDF, formerly from Debenu, now from Foxit. But Foxit announced its EOL a few months ago. I also use the PDFIUM wrapper from https://winsoft.sk/pdfium.htm, but this requires the Google PDFIUM DLL separate from your application. They have a demo, and a PDF merge example.

Browsers do not support page headers and footers, different page sizes/orientation, printing page number and count of pages, repeated table headers, etc.

Don't forget the Drop Bears... Can be nasty... https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/

🤣 it is true there are lots of animals that could kill/injure you , giant spiders eating cows - not so much redback spiders - quite common, but once you know about them not much of an issue - just don't put your hands in places where you can't see without gloves on. kangaroos - very common, see them all the time while out walking - just give them a wide berth and they will just stare at you or hop away - the most common dangerous encounters are when they jump out in front of your car at the last second.. had several of those, as has my wife, daughter, son and brother (in my car!). Insurance is expensive here. Snakes (a few of the most venomous in the world) - common in the bush and in some parts of the country they are everywhere - I've not had any close encounters, but I'm always wary when bush walking. Salt water crocidiles - they live up north - avoid rivers and the sea past certain lattitudes (I live down south so not an issue). Fresh water crocidiles - mostly in the north/north west - they rarely attack people but can do some serious damage, so best avoided. Irukandji jellyfish - mostly in the tropics - don't swim in the sea There are others but in all of the above fatal encountes with them are easily surpassed by vehicle accidents, heart disease, diabetes etc.

In a software company? That only reinforces my opinion of MBA programs.

I know, it's very odd to me as well. When I graduated from college I got hired by Intel. They tended to hire EEs; my degree was in math / computer science. Everything I worked with there was proprietary. I got caught up in their first layoff 5-1/2 years later. Looking for what was next, people kept telling me, "Well, you've got a CS degree ... you can learn anything pretty quickly, right?" I ended up getting hired at a Motorola division and they wanted me to learn C and Unix. C++ was just coming to the fore as well. After the world didn't come to an end on Jan 1, 2000 (Y2K) the market was flooded with about one million excess programmers, most of whom were here on H-1B visas. That changed the entire complexion of hiring practices across the software and IT industry. Jobs that used to get 5-10 job applicants were now getting hundreds. Executive Recruiters who used to have the ear of hiring managers disappeared, and everything was moved to automated systems. Job descriptions became more standardized and HR people didn't really have any clue what any given job entailed. People learned they could "keyword stuff" their resumes to improve their chances of getting a call-back, if not an interview, whether they knew what the jobs were or not. Things have devolved to the point where it hardly matters what your educational background is -- if you don't have 3-5 years immediate experience with whatever platform or stack a project is using, they won't consider you. Nobody wants to pay for on-the-job training any more. I was at the event when Delphi was announced in 1995 and got a free copy of it. I started playing with it and was quite amazed. Unlike VB, you could build Delphi extensions (components) in Delphi itself, you didn't need to use another language. And unlike VB and other things where all "extensions" were DLLs, Delphi's components could be linked into the EXE as normal library code, so there was no run-time penalty to use them. Over the next 5 years, I switched my focus from C++ to Delphi, mainly because Delphi was so much easier to work with, especially for UI-based apps. Since 2005, I've had a bunch of different roles that I got mainly because of my Delphi expertise. Every one of them had fairly complex systems that took many months to learn and were in application domains that were new to me and had very little in common other than they were all built in Delphi. Most of them were, in the words of one colleague, "keeping a comatose patient alive until the new system was built", usually that meant "porting" it over to C#/.NET. I never saw any of those "ports" get completed. The last place I was at, I kept hearing people at all levels of the organization say things like, "Well, you're the Delphi expert, so you understand how all of this stuff works, right?" (IOW, since I knew Windows, I obviously must also know how ALL Windows apps work.) This was an incredibly complex system and it took most of a year to start making sense to me. A guy they hired 8 months after I'd started didn't know much about Delphi but had 10 years of app domain experience, and he was able to come up to speed much faster than I did because of his extensive domain expertise. I discovered that the entire (Delphi) dev team quit in 2011, although very little had changed since 2009. My first day on the job I was told, "Do not touch ANY of the code!" It has always struck me as odd that hiring managers seem to think there's more relevance in knowing a given programming language / platform versus an application domain. The app domains are usually far more complicated and take a lot longer to learn than a new programming language / platform. I mean ... at some point programming is programming. Every imperative programming language is pretty much the same, and they all tend to have the same structure, so learning one more isn't a big deal. (Actually, they're all easy to read; writing new code takes a little more time.) I'm semi-retired now so I don't have to deal with this crap any more. I can do what I want with my time now.

A newer version 6.5.0. (now called Konopka Signature VCL/Bonus KSVC) is available in GetIT Update: An update to 7.0 also there

I haven't been on Facebook since 2018, and I am not going there again.