manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Mon Jun 28 09:56:45 2004

>>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse_at_rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:

>>> Well, _I_ can't. Or at least if I can I have no idea how.
>>> GhostScript (the only open-source PDF reader I know of) doesn't
>>> seem to have a plain-text output option.
>> ps2ascii

 der> Woo. Cool. I wouldn't've tried it directly, because "ps"
 der> doesn't say "PDF" to me.

PDF is a close relative of PostScript -- which is why ghostview can
read PDF files. It works well -- unlike xpdf which was never any good
in my experience, and Adobe's Linux version of acroread which doesn't
even start on my (Fedora 1) system.

By the way, on the question "what format for mixed OCR-text and images
-- simple: PDF of course.

     paul
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 09:56:45 BST