At 06.05.2000 18:18:00, you wrote:
>
>I recently downloaded two PDF files from www.fpp.co.uk. Two books by the
>revisionist historian David Irving who lost a libel case in the United
>Kingdom a couple of weeks ago. The files were two books:-
>
>     Hitler's War was HW.PDF
>     Nuremberg - the last battle was NUREMBER.PDF
>
>As I am using DOS only on my PC I ran the two files through PDFTOTEX. The
>results were not bad but _all_ dates and figures were replaced by spaces!
>
>I had a look at the books in Adobe Acrobat on a Windows machine at work and
>cannot see anything odd about the figures 0-9. Why would PDFTOTEX not
>translate these ASCII characters? A book by a historian, even one by David
>Irving, which has no dates or statistics visible, is not much good to
>anyone.
>
>Regards
>--aj
>
>Net-Tamer V 1.11.1 - Registered
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