On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 03:20:33 +0000, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> Sorry, I had been a bit short-thought on that remark why the
> PDF-to-text thing should need a coprocessor.
> Where I was aiming at was: the utility - or even need, as things are -
> for something like that would be precisely for people who would not have
> the (machine or whatever) ressources to get a PDF-pixel-show onscreen.
> These would be PCs used in text-mode only, or predominantly, and often
> "old" such; and without copro.
> So this hasn't a *causal* relationship with DOS. But to quite some
> degree a coincidental such.
(Lots of fine stuff snipped)
Thank you, Heimo. I couldn't do this myself; when I think of Adobe,
anger rises and whatever eloquence or reason I might have flies out the
window.
> (*) Whoever tried Adobe's own and "free" PDF-to-text conversion
> "service" via their "free" server knows about the resulting mess and the
> hepless work needed to make it legible.
At least 4 or 5 times a week, I use HTGET to point this online utility
at (heh) The PDF Reference Manual! Gotta love burnin their bandwidth
twice on that one!
A vandal, you say? Perhaps. Get them to drop the "...can be read on any
computer in the world..." claim and I might hear you.
It's not the latest game or a thrilling rumor that's being withheld.
It's pure info. (Once the overhead is deleted, that is.)
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