Question about PDF manipulation

[Eric Smith]

Bjørn Vermo <bv at norbionics.com> wrote:
> In general, I have a strong dislike for PDF files for any other purpose
> than to prepare for printing.
>
> It is not a format that is suitable for seaching, referencing or easy
> manipulation.

That's not necessarily true.  It is true in the case of PDF files that
only contain scanned images.

> I want my digital information to be in a format that offers as much
> syntactical information as possible, and keeps presentation separate
> from content.

Did I just hear someone volunteering to OCR, proof, and index the
Bitsavers archive?  Wow, I'm very impressed!

> Please do not waste any time making new PDF documents,

Please don't waste any time complaining about PDF documents.  In many
cases, you're lucky to get the data in any form at all.

Eric