Hi
On 8/28/08, Lew Wolfgang
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Converting PDF to HTML is guaranteed to produce inferior results. I don't recommend it. Playing the kind of games you hint at is unlikely to benefit your end users.
Hi Randall,
I agree about the results, but there are times when it's useful.
I'm with a non-profit that sends out a monthly newsletter to about 700 members. This is printed in b/w and sent via snail mail, its usually about 5 double-sided pages.
Unless you do some very strange things 5 pages isn't going to load unacceptably slow in PDF.
But I also place the source pdfs on the org's web site and keep the older versions there for archival purposes. This works well since the source is in color and there are frequently color photos that we can't afford to distribute in paper form. But it's nice to be able to index the archived newsletters for historical reference (it's a museum), but pdf doesn't work well for indexing text.
What do you mean exactly? If you'd like to search te PDF (or a set of PDF's) for the occurence of words (like Google does) Beagle might be able to help. I cannot do more there than pointing. If you mean the reader would be able to search within the file and jump to the correct section with a usefull index, then that is already available in PDF. For example, if you use the header types correctly in Oo then the generated PDF has an index by default. It uses the headers to determine what are chapters and paragraphs and inserts those into the PDF. Neil -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org