Question about PDF manipulation

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:50 AM


> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:09:38 +0200
> Bjørn Vermo <bv at norbionics.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:18:29 +0200, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Bjørn Vermo <bv at norbionics.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> You do not get my point: Instead of adding an extra step to make PDF
>> files, I think it is better to keep the raw scans. Preferably as PNGs,
>> but  if the scanner software does not provide that, TIFF is workable.
>>
> It isn't an 'extra step' in all instances.  I have a motorized
> sheet-feed scanner that Adobe Acrobat recognizes.  I can open Acrobat
> and tell it to do 'double side capture' and it will happily sheet-feed
> through the first side of a stack of pages, then prompt me to pile them
> 'other side down' on the scanner and scan them again.  Then it will
> automatically interleaf the scanned pages as sequential pages.
>
> It doesn't get 'easier' than that, and any other method requires
> significantly more steps.  And TIFF scanning (where you end up with an
> odd directory full of images, hopefully with filenames that properly
> indicate the page sequence) is a LOT more work.

Adobe Acrobat has no intermediate files but other open source programs do. 
Even if there are intermediate files the thing is still to produce the PDF, 
that is the package that is useful to the majority.

Remember we are not creating PDF's for ourselves and we are not creating 
PDF's for any individual we are creating PDF's to share with the majority. 
Each PDF can have totally different internal structure and only the PDF 
wrapper gives them a consistent face.

If anyone can not handle the PDF or just won't deal with them then please 
remember this:  That's OK you don't have to have access to them, you are no 
worse off for not having them just don't expect others to do anything 
special for you.


Randy
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