Re: FAQ - use of Acrobat

To: tesla-at-PUPMAN-dot-com
Subject: Re: FAQ - use of Acrobat
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:41:20 -0600
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

The only problem I see with .pdf files (and I use them a lot for other
purposes) is that it takes some amount more work to make them searchable.
Of course, a well designed index and table of contents could remove that
need, but it is still handy to have the ability to do text searches.

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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: FAQ
> Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 6:58 PM
> 
> Original Poster: Mark Finnis <mefinnis-at-medicine.adelaide.edu.au> 
> 
> At 20:29 21/10/99 -0600, Neon John wrote:
> 
> ... Snip ...
> 
> >If the only excuse for not using PDF is that Acrobat costs real,
> >actual money (gasp!), then I'll volunteer to typeset and encode the
> >documents here.  I have just about everything Adobe makes.
> 
> I would support PDF as a choice.  Seems crazy in 1999 to be even remotely

> concerned with ASCII art etc.
> 
> Mark
> 
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>