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I enjoyed your explanation of the process even more than the results!

The process to learn the basics and then automate them makes sense. Once upon a time, I did something similar. I taught myself HP printer PCL language, did some manual coding to draw pages, then wrote code to automate the process for projects I had in mind, such as creating barcodes from text input. Your adventure creating PDFs reminded me of that.
 
Way over my head and skill set. But fascinating thought process and delivery as always.
Interesting process, and quite a detailed explanation too; thank you. I admit some of that is lost on me, but if I were so inclined, I'm sure I could better understand it all.

Fascinating, @chown33, - and thanks for the detailed explanations, but I must admit that it is way over my skill set, head (or pay grade) as well.
 
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Wow, that’s embarrassing. I’m still in the top 50. Maybe I’ll start climbing up the ranks again! First post in oh so many years. I’m not dead!
 
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Wow, that’s embarrassing. I’m still in the top 50. Maybe I’ll start climbing up the ranks again! First post in oh so many years. I’m not dead!
I used to feel sorry for you because you missed having a four-digit user number by only a day. But these days having a five-digit user number also make you pretty special. The latest user to join just now is user number 1195046.
 
I used to feel sorry for you because you missed having a four-digit user number by only a day. But these days having a five-digit user number also make you pretty special. The latest user to join just now is user number 1195046.

At least I still have this one! I lost my /. account that I registered in 1999. That was a super-low ID
 
My user number has a secret 7-11 reference. It's 11 squared followed by 7 squared, something I've always appreciated.
 
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Hover the cursor over your username, then look in the status bar at the bottom of the browser window, or just click on it and look at the end of the URL in the browser address bar.


You are 211005.

Thank you for kindly giving me that member number, because, when I hover over my username, I see my date of joining the forum, number of posts, and number of "likes" (aka "reactions") but not my actual number.

No matter.

But, thank you.
 
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