Better indexing on bitsavers

1236 pages, according to GhostScript run on the PDF for the 1.6 spec. Yes, if it needed further implying. So don't use Adobe's reader. Ghostscript generally does a pretty good job in my experience. ...though still not as good as a plain text file... "The" right hing? I dunno, but I do know I'd sure rather have a directory containing TIFF files than a PDF containing the same TIFF files. Or a tar of them, or almost anything else non-proprietary - the less information I have to understand to figure out how to pull it apart, the better, on which score PDF (as pointed out above) fails rather dismally. (It may be an open format in that the doc is unrestricted - though I'm not sure of even that much - but for an open format, its doc is not easy to find. Google finds http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html, which is full of puffery and notably short on links to fetch the spec itself from; I eventually managed to scare it up - and it's a PDF. "Here! If you can figure this file out, it will tell you how to figure it out!" As if that weren't enough, Adobe prohibits saving a copy of it(!!); the second page includes [ten-finger copy] "No part of this publication (whether in hardcopy or electronic form) may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated.".) Writing one's own tar unpacker is a contemplatable exercise - a fairly easy one, even, for a reasonably experienced programmer. Writing a PDF groveler...is not. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B