3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
12:34 p.m.
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.
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