Add on requirement: With a "flowed" format of some sort it would also be worlds easier to just extract text for non-book purposes (like Abe K.'s website of instructions).
The Xpdf batch utility (Linux and Windows) pdftotext does pretty well (using the "-table" option) extracting text from the PoOP and preserving the 2-column format of text and keeping full-page-width tables intact, but then you have to write a 2-column to 1-column process yourself to get at the text. Annoying and quite complex. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nightwatch RenBand Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2017 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sales PDFs - a rant In the words of Tevye: "From your lips to God's ears". Yes, PDF's are great and portable, but they are designed for print. It is high time to come up with something better which will adapt to any screen format. Print should be secondary these days, Add on rant... The human eye can do speed reading effectively only when columns are a few inches wide. Spread text all across a wide screen and comprehension rate goes straight down. There is a reason newspapers (remember those) and magazines use columns. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
