Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Jan-Benedict Glaw" <jbglaw at lug-owl.de>
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>On Fri, 2005-06-03 14:57:15 -0500, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
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>> But that's not your domain/responsibility.  The PDF should have been 
>> perfect by the time it got to you -- PDF is a final end-destination format. 
>> If the scans needed touching up, they shouldn't have made it into a PDF in 
>> the first place.
>
>Wrong IMHO.  As my thesis is the pure four-dimensionalism of preserving
>content, it's legal (and I'd even *ask* for it) that a good preservation
>format will allow later enhancements. Be it fixing some spurious black
>pixels, adding textual/OCRed content or whatever.
>
>The person that does the scanning isn't probably the one who actually
>prepares the "end-format". The "end-format" should be the result of an
>access to the preserved data, not the result after preservation.

 Ahh. Someone else that has some common sense besides Sellam and me.
Dwight

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>MfG, JBG
>
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