3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
12:59 p.m.
From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:34 PM
If you want to share via the internet a document
where the value is
in the information it contains and no longer have anything but
printed sheets you can either retype the documents or scan them.
There is a third alternative, that being to copy the paper documents
directly onto paper, as a traditional photocopier does, and distribute
the copies.
How do you share photocopied paper over the internet?
There are only a very few methods that are currently accepted as packaged
scanned documents. Only one method is considered universal, PDF's.
By packing the image files in zip files much of the organization can be
lost, PDF's organize the images and allow for "universal" support. Once
the
PDF package is created there is no question of order, size, viewer
compatibility, text search where applicable, etc.
If you
don't like PDF's I recommend that you start a monastery to
copy by hand any documents you want archived.
That's a rather peculiar
suggestion. Now you have me curious - why
would you think that I'd consider hand copying the best of the
available non-PDF alternatives? Obviously
people would normally want to use current technology in
this case and scan them.
Agreed.
Once you have scanned documents the question is
how to keep them
packaged.
Well, first there's the question of *whether* to keep them packaged,
but I'll grant you this one. (There are some uses for scans of
isolated pages or other small fractions of the whole document, but
they're limited.)
Obviously using the only currently recognized
format makes sense.
And here we are at the crux of the matter: it appears you inhabit an
alternative universe in which all the other methods of keeping page
scans packaged have been forgotten. (What other methods? To name just
three, (1) put the files in the same directory; (2) a zip file; (3) a
tar file, optionally compressed.)
Thank you. That cleared up my puzzlement effectively. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse
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