My Packard Stories #1 - Temora Air Show
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Some years ago our club. The Packard Automobile Club of Australia Inc, had a weekend run to attend an air show in country New South Wales at Temora. At the time I wrote a story, about the weekend and the Packards in attendance, which is reproduced below.If there's any interest I've got plenty more Packard run/rally stories I can share in the future. If this was "of interest" let me know and I'll publish more stories. The story originally appeared in our club magazine, but that has a very limited circulation, this way it should reach a much wider audience.
EDIT - I see that in transferring over the story, it has "lost" some of it's formatting, sorry.
Posted on: 6/2 17:26
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Mal
/o[]o\ ==== Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia "Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche. 1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD 1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD 1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD 1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD What's this? Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry! Here's how! Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com |
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...I see that in transferring over the story, it has "lost" some of it's formatting, sorry. Mal, the following won't require a computer nerd. I think you could solve the formatting problem by opening the documents in MS Word (they do this by themselves by double-clicking on the files) and saving them as a PDF document after opening (File -> Save As -> *.pdf). To quote Microsoft: "You can use the Office programs to save or convert your files to PDFs so that you can share them .... And you won’t need any other software or add-ins. Use PDF format when you want a file that: Looks the same on most computers. Has a smaller file size."
Posted on: 6/3 8:24
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The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de
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I can directly open the Word documents on my iPad where I do most of my PackardInfo.com viewing but oddly I can’t open PDFs posted in the forums even though those in the Literature section open just fine! In the forum postings, I am forced to save the file first, then I have to drill down to it in the Files app and open it that way.
Posted on: 6/3 11:52
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Don (Packard Don), there are half a dozen conversion programs to convert PDF to MS Word.
Sorry Mal, this thread revolves around the Temora Air Show. Don't alarm the Spitfires, please.
Posted on: 6/3 13:01
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The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de
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there are half a dozen conversion programs to convert PDF to MS Word. I know but that wasn’t the point although perhaps I wasn’t too clear. The point was that I CAN open the MS Word files on my iPad but I cannot directly open the PDFs without first downloading them but it’s only the PDFs in the forums with the issue. As a techie and Web programmer myself, I don’t see a reason why that might be unless one area loads them differently than the other area. Anyway, keep the Word files coming so that I can enjoy the stories!
Posted on: 6/3 20:54
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Guscha wrote:Quote: Gerd, I'm intimidated by technology, so I'll probably leave things alone. Even your assurance that it'e easily fixible can't help me ovrecome my fears. Sorry Quote: Packard Don wrote:.......keep the Word files coming so that I can enjoy the stories! Glad you're enjoying the stories Don, another coming up soon.
Posted on: 6/4 0:55
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/o[]o\ ==== Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia "Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche. 1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD 1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD 1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD 1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD What's this? Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry! Here's how! Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com |
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