Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> 
> I have the very informative gforth.ps file in the system. However it is
> not searchable as it doesn't seem to include the actual text of the
> document, just an image. I tried pstopdf which produced another nice
> image, but of course still not searchable.

I am not sure why you think that the text is represented as an image
(it is not).

For on-line reading, including searching, I use the info format.
Searchable alternatives are the plain text file, and the unsplit HTML
version.  They are available at

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/gf062txt.zip
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/gforth.html.gz

If you insist on PDF, I just did

#make a version with Type1 fonts, old xpdfs don't display Type3
dvips -t letterSize -Z doc/gforth.dvi -Pcmz -o doc/gforth.ps
ps2pdf doc/gforth.ps doc/gforth.pdf

and xpdf seems to search it quite fine.

I have put the result on

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/gforth-0.6.2.pdf

> Is there some source file for this doc which I could make into a
> searchable pdf document?

The source files are doc/gforth.ds and many others.  The best starting
point for conversion to all other formats is doc/gforth.texi.

- anton

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