manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Mon Jun 28 12:37:27 2004

>>>>> "Jules" == Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk> writes:

 Jules> 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.

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

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

Since ghostview looks like a perfectly adequate PDF reader and is open
source, what's the issue?

        paul
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 12:37:27 BST