RE: On PDFs

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com> wrote:

>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.  

Searchable for me. What version of Acrobat do you have?

>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.

That is also searchable. Of course I'm just talking about Ctrl-F word searches, not a properly constructed online reference.

Watson, I've had badly prepared restaurant food. That does not mean I'll never eat in a restaurant again. Just because some people construct poor quality PDFs, that does not mean PDFs are always the wrong format for documents. It depends on the circumstances and on the competence of the person preparing the document.

As for download time, again, it depends who is generating the PDF. It is easy enough to create a high-resolution version for printing and a low-resolution version for downloading.

Dick

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