manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jun 28 11:54:06 2004

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 14:56, Paul Koning wrote:
> By the way, on the question "what format for mixed OCR-text and images
> -- simple: PDF of course.

Except, as said, not readable on a platform that doesn't have a PDF
viewer (or has a broken/slow/old one). IIRC, older versions of the
Acrobat viewer wouldn't even let you selectively copy and paste ASCII
text - I don't even know if the current versions do that. Plus I don't
know if I can run a PDF file through my favourite search tool -
certainly the few I've just looked at appear to be unreadable garbage.

If this wasn't a classic computer list *and* we were all expected to
have PCs running MS software then I'd agree that PDF might be a valid
choice. I'm just not so sure it's that simple in this case...

cheers

Jules
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 11:54:06 BST