19 May
2005
19 May
'05
3:20 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 23:46 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
On Thu, 2005-05-19 16:32:46 -0500, Randy McLaughlin
<cctalk at randy482.com> wrote:
Doesn't this sort of imply that PDF is the wrong choice of format for
jobs like these? (plus I'm pissed at Adobe because their current readr
for Linux eats close on 100MB of disk space just to let me read a PDF
file :-)
It might be good for text-based documents (offering text searching and
the like), but is it necessarily the right thing for collections of page
scans?
cheers
J.
One extra caveat would be when listing page
numbers both the printed page
numbers and the PDF's declared page numbers should be included.
Some time ago, I worked on some TeX skeleton (generated with script's
aid) to produce a PDF file with nice bookmarks and all the like.
However, I came to the conclusion that this isn't a real solution.
I'm still thinking about how paper-based documentation can be made up
cleverly enough to gain text as well as images and mixing meta-data into
that. Maybe I'd do some C programming and hack something nice producing
PDF files helding everything? But first, I'd need to understand PDF
(whose specification actually is about 8cm thick...)