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added by juergen d Oct 9 '13 at 10:15

Reminder: Each question needs only 10 upvotes. Beyond that, the votes are essentially wasted and could be better spent in some other questions that are needing more votes. – Victor Stafusa Dec 27 '13 at 5:33

Yes, but it is not too late then. You can unupvote a question and upvote another one. – juergen d Dec 29 '13 at 14:39

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added by Alex, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:15

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added by Nicolas Raoul Oct 24 '13 at 7:05

This is a inherent feature of visual studio, is a question that has the correct answer "Use this little known feature of software you have" on topic here? – Oxinabox Jan 4 '14 at 13:30

I did not know that. Monodevelop users may have never used Visual Studio, despite writing C#. If Visual Studio can do this, it is a valid answer. My opinion more generally: If a user asks for a software, the question does not become off-topic just because the answer is smarter/easier than downloading a new piece of software. – Nicolas Raoul Jan 6 '14 at 1:53

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added by Nicolas Raoul Oct 24 '13 at 6:56

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added by Nicolas Raoul Oct 24 '13 at 6:57

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added by Free Radical Dec 13 '13 at 5:54

What? It's no longer developed? In that case this is a real good question. – Stefan Jan 10 '14 at 11:03

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added by Any Body, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 6:44

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added by Gallaecio Oct 11 '13 at 19:41

This probably a question which should be for sites like stackoverflow? – Yao Bo Lu Dec 13 '13 at 11:52

@yao: No, recommendations of any sort are off-topic on Stack Overflow. – juergen d Dec 18 '13 at 7:42

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added by Alex Oct 23 '13 at 22:13

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added by Nicolas Raoul Oct 24 '13 at 7:01

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added by damryfbfnetsi Nov 7 '13 at 7:52

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added by kmort Nov 10 '13 at 4:45

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added by kmort, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:10

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added by kmort Nov 10 '13 at 4:46

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added by kmort Nov 10 '13 at 4:50

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added by kmort Nov 10 '13 at 4:53

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added by Szymon Nov 12 '13 at 11:13

Doesn't this belong to stackoverflow.com? – l19 Nov 27 '13 at 23:55

No, it would be thrown out of there. There's a close reason about recommending tools and libraries. – Szymon Nov 28 '13 at 0:00

1. Apache PDFBox 2. Apache FOP 3. iTEXT – kosta Jan 7 '14 at 0:12

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added by Chenmunka, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:10

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added by kdzia, edited by SF. Dec 19 '13 at 11:02

Why the downvote? Please leave a comment as to explain why you think this question isn't a good fit. – kdzia Nov 18 '13 at 11:30

Maybe because it's "paid", not "payed"... or maybe because you're not seeking for a recommendationn – l19 Nov 27 '13 at 23:58

This isn't an actual question that would appear on the site. It requires the blanks to be filled in. Rather than upvoting this, it would be more useful to upvote several examples that actually have the blanks filled in. This question can't be "answered", but question of this format with the blanks filled in can be. – Stephen Ostermiller Dec 6 '13 at 19:38

You are basically restating the entire purpose of the site in broad generalities. This isn't an example question. It's almost circular. Sometimes a question can become so overly generic, it doesn't help define the site at all. Questions that start to look like *"How do it [this] a [that]" aren't generally accepted because they can fit virtually any definition of a site. Please ask questions you would actually ask on the site. Thanks. – Robert Cartaino Dec 9 '13 at 0:39

I replaced the blanks with a software and a task. But I think blanks can be very useful to define the scope of a site. Isn't it better to have one question like What is a good maps software for [Country]? upvoted quite high, than having the three questions What is a good maps software for Spain? , What is a good maps software for Germany? , What is a good maps software for Russia? dangling somewhere in the low upvotes? This might happen if several examples that actually have the blanks filled in are posted. – kdzia Dec 9 '13 at 10:39

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added by Chenmunka, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:13

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added by fNek Nov 22 '13 at 13:59

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added by Ian, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:12

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added by Ian Nov 29 '13 at 4:27

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added by Stephen Ostermiller, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:33

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added by Chenmunka, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 6 '14 at 1:57

Should be a little more specific. Via the internet? via pendrives? On which platform? (Cross platform?) – Tim Dec 12 '13 at 12:24

The term best really kills this question for me. – Chad Jan 2 '14 at 22:20

I made the question more specific, to address the concerns raised by Tim and Chad. – Nicolas Raoul Jan 6 '14 at 1:57

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added by Tim Dec 11 '13 at 15:43

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added by Ben Miller, edited by Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:12

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added by Bernhard Dec 24 '13 at 16:13

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added by JBaruch Dec 26 '13 at 20:32

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added by juergen d Oct 9 '13 at 10:16

	I think that questions should not ask "open source" (which I find to be PC-speak for "I'm too cheap to pay for it"). One could insist that answers specify a) where to get to the recommended item, and b) whether it was free or not. Otherwise you get two questions (one for "open source" only, one for "all others") for each question. – Ira Baxter Jan 9 '14 at 15:57
	I find it totally valid to ask for free software specifically. A company can afford to pay thousands of dollar for a specific tool and some people can't even affort to pay a single dollar. That has nothing to do with being cheap - there are poor people too in this world. And such persons don't care about an answer suggesting a non-free tool. – juergen d Jan 9 '14 at 17:37

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added by PeterJ Oct 9 '13 at 23:28

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added by Chenmunka Nov 14 '13 at 9:38

...and here's an interesting point, where a submitting the drive fior a professional service would be preferable over a specific program. It is an interesting question as it raises the point about: not always software is the best solution. – SF. Dec 19 '13 at 11:09

Added precision, otherwise probably too vague. – Nicolas Raoul Jan 7 '14 at 3:35

So now the site is not limited to just software, but to any technology or service whatsover? If we agree the question is "what tool can OP get" we avoid that problem. – Ira Baxter Jan 9 '14 at 15:59

I believe the site should be limited to software. Although there may sometimes be a question to which the answer is to look elsewhere. – Chenmunka Jan 9 '14 at 16:27

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added by l19 Nov 27 '13 at 23:55

Good question, but I would think this kind of question would rather fit into a specialized site.. took the liberty to phrase the same as suggestion for the proposal for Libraries and Information Science area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/56319/… – AardVark71 Dec 10 '13 at 8:41