5 Jun
2005
5 Jun
'05
9:53 a.m.
From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:50 AM
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:09:38 +0200
Bj??rn Vermo <bv at norbionics.com> wrote:
Adobe Acrobat has no intermediate files but other open source programs do.
Even if there are intermediate files the thing is still to produce the PDF,
that is the package that is useful to the majority.
Remember we are not creating PDF's for ourselves and we are not creating
PDF's for any individual we are creating PDF's to share with the majority.
Each PDF can have totally different internal structure and only the PDF
wrapper gives them a consistent face.
If anyone can not handle the PDF or just won't deal with them then please
remember this: That's OK you don't have to have access to them, you are no
worse off for not having them just don't expect others to do anything
special for you.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:18:29 +0200, Eric Smith
<eric at brouhaha.com>
wrote:
You do not get my point: Instead of adding an extra step to make PDF
files, I think it is better to keep the raw scans. Preferably as PNGs,
but if the scanner software does not provide that, TIFF is workable.
It isn't an 'extra step' in all instances. I have a motorized
sheet-feed scanner that Adobe Acrobat recognizes. I can open Acrobat
and tell it to do 'double side capture' and it will happily sheet-feed
through the first side of a stack of pages, then prompt me to pile them
'other side down' on the scanner and scan them again. Then it will
automatically interleaf the scanned pages as sequential pages.
It doesn't get 'easier' than that, and any other method requires
significantly more steps. And TIFF scanning (where you end up with an
odd directory full of images, hopefully with filenames that properly
indicate the page sequence) is a LOT more work. Bj??rn Vermo <bv at norbionics.com> wrote:
Please do
not waste any time making new PDF documents,
Please don't waste any time complaining about PDF documents. In
many cases, you're lucky to get the data in any form at all.