Screw Drivers and PDF Files - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jun 2005

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 From: "Jan-Benedict Glaw" <jbglaw at
lug-owl.de>

On Fri, 2005-06-03 14:57:15 -0500, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:

  But that's not your domain/responsibility. 
The PDF should have been 
 perfect by the time it got to you -- PDF is a final end-destination format. 
 If the scans needed touching up, they shouldn't have made it into a PDF in 
 the first place. 
Wrong IMHO.  As my thesis is the pure four-dimensionalism of preserving
content, it's legal (and I'd even *ask* for it) that a good preservation
format will allow later enhancements. Be it fixing some spurious black
pixels, adding textual/OCRed content or whatever.

The person that does the scanning isn't probably the one who actually
prepares the "end-format". The "end-format" should be the result of
an
access to the preserved data, not the result after preservation. 
 Ahh. Someone else that has some common sense besides Sellam and me.
Dwight

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MfG, JBG

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