Funny, I tend to think that something with the word "format" in its name
can be called a format. Call it what you will--PDF is grim. Yes, we all use
it all the time, but it's remarkably primitive.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Robin Vowels <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: "zMan" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 11:16 AM
>
>
>  If Adobe PDF wasn't such a crappy format, it would be easy to program it
>> to
>> filter those grafs so you could select just the grande instructions (or
>> whatever), the number of columns, etc. In the meanwhile, great example!
>>
>
> PDF isn't a "format"
>
> PDF stands for Portable Document Format.
>
> All it does is make it possible to print a given document on any computer
> and have it print exactly the same as the originator (regardless of what
> fonts are on/not on the computer).
>
> The problem you need to address is the originator of the document.
>
> Anyway, if you print the PoPs (PDF) document you will have something that
> you
> can read easily.
>



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