9 Dec
2008
9 Dec
'08
11:28 a.m.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Trivial with free and non-free tools, I do it all the time.
> Sigh.
You'd think if they actually wanted to make the documentation
> _usable_, they'd make it plain text. Apparently glitz wins out over
> usability once again.
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Alexandre Souza wrote:
PDFs are _usable_ enough. Things change and
progress. How
would you
include drawings on ASCII? Using ASCII ART?!?! Wake up, 2008 is
now! :oD
on material that is ALL text?
source code?
?!? I just load it and read...What else is
needed? :oO
searching extracting
Also trivial with free and non-free tools, I do it all the time.
not having to run multiple megabytes through a dial-up
line to get
a few
pages of text
I have about three thousand component datasheets in PDF format.
Most of them are a few dozen kilobytes.
print in a different font
Huh? Ok, I must admit I have no idea how one would do that. I
also have no idea of why someone would want to.
being able to make changes without needing special
Adobe software
Trivial with free and non-free tools. But why would you want to
make changes to a component datasheet?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL