On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:54:44 +0100
Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Harold,

> Are you suggesting that PDF is not searchable? All the PDFs I've ever 
> seen are readily searchable using free readers such as Adobe Acrobat.

Only if what's in the PDF is text.  I have quite a number of PDFs which
are scans of book pages that haven't been OCR'd/whatever to be
searchable.  Mind you, at the price I paid (nothing)[1], I'm not
complaining.   :-)

Of course, anything created in OOo is likely to contain searchable text.


[1]  They were legitimately acquired, BTW.  Just in case you were
wondering.

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