Re: [ARSCLIST] Cataloguing still :-)--was: Cataloguing again--ARSC responsibility?

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

steven c wrote:

> Worse yet, the .pdf format requires a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader
> (admittedly
> downloadable for free if you go looking) in a version equal to or newer than
> the one used to create the file...and you CAN'T use "Edit, Copy" to save
> the piece you were looking for, because a .pdf is just a PICTURE of
> text...not text! This means you have to save the entire .pdf on your
> HD, use Acrobat Reader to access it and manually copy the text you
> are interested in! This is something like making sound recordings
> available in a proprietary format with limited fidelity...

Were that so, it would be an unfortunate format. Fortunately, it ain't 
so it ain't. <G>

There are readers not from Adobe; OCR programs such as OmniPage will 
capture the text. (All assuming that the file is not protected or that 
you have broken the simplistic protection afforded.)

By the way, text is not usually stored as a "picture", though since the 
format does accomodate graphics, some can be stored in that way.

Mike
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