manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jun 27 16:10:28 2004

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:41, der Mouse wrote:
> > If you've OCRed the data, HTML is probably fine for pure text.
>
> Ugh! Please, no! For pure text, use - pure text!

Ahh, my point was that this would be text + images (well, typically).

I *hate* HTML for any document type stuff, but in this case it seems
like it *might* be the best option, considering the alternatives :-(

If it's simple markup without all sorts of extra HTML crap then *maybe*
it'd be OK. I honestly don't know :-)

Of course then there's the question - do you preserve an old document in
the format which the author intended (complete with typos, any bad
layout etc.), or is the intention to just preserve textual/graphical
data - possibly losing font and layout information in the process?

cheers

Jules
Received on Sun Jun 27 2004 - 16:10:28 BST