>>>> "Jules" == Jules Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes:
Jules> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 14:56, Paul Koning wrote:
> By the way, on the question "what format for
mixed OCR-text and
> images -- simple: PDF of course.
Jules> Except, as said, not readable on a platform that doesn't have
Jules> a PDF viewer (or has a broken/slow/old one). IIRC, older
Jules> versions of the Acrobat viewer wouldn't even let you
Jules> selectively copy and paste ASCII text - I don't even know if
Jules> the current versions do that. Plus I don't know if I can run a
Jules> PDF file through my favourite search tool - certainly the few
Jules> I've just looked at appear to be unreadable garbage.
Jules> If this wasn't a classic computer list *and* we were all
Jules> expected to have PCs running MS software then I'd agree that
Jules> PDF might be a valid choice. I'm just not so sure it's that
Jules> simple in this case...
Since ghostview looks like a perfectly adequate PDF reader and is open
source, what's the issue?
paul