On Sunday 11 May 2008 07:08, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Sunday 2008-05-11 at 11:02 +0100, John wrote:
[ reposting; the list filter devnulled it. ]
As an aside djvu is in many ways a much better format. Take up seems to be a bit slow. Largely because acrobat is more or less supplied with every machine on the planet.
They are different things. PDF is very good for computer generated text, because it uses fonts. DjVu, on the other hand, is very good, perhaps perfect, for scanned material.
I wonder what sort of production process institutions like the ACM use to digitize their pre-digital publications for which the paper copies are the most "original" they have. They scan the originals and produce PDFs that display and print the scanned content but which contain OCR-ed text that can be used for searching. It has OCR errors, of course, but it's about the best you can hope for. It actually works pretty well. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org