RE: On PDFs

[Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com>]

>>I've heard several people say that PDFs are not fully searchable. In my
experience, they _always_ are. 

Eh?  Try searching
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/02/transcripts/3875T1.PDF.  303 pages of
totally unsearchable text, as far as I can tell.  Or the user manual for the
Palm Tungsten T PDA.  Or, worst of all, the Cannondale Bicycle Users' Manual
(http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/tech/pdfs/2002_OM.pdf).  Nothing like
spending $2000 on a bike and getting a linke to an unsearchable,
un-hyperlinked online document, instead of a manual that comes with the
thing.

My experience has been just the opposite.  SOMETIMES they are searchable,
frustratingly oftentimes, NOT.  And either way, they take a dog's age to
load.  If I hadn't been able to d/l' the bike manual on a broadband
connection, I wouldn't have even bothered.

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