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Re: a PDF of the Xy4 Manuals

** Reply to message from "Brian Henderson"  on Fri, 28
Oct 2005 18:10:37 -0700

Wouldn't it be nice if a copy of the original Manual *texts*, from which the
printed manuals were typeset, wound up in somebody's Email Inbox? Then we
could make a *text-based* PDF, in which words could actually be *searched*! A
PDF made from graphic images is a pretty sad thing, only better than the book
insofar as it is portable; and performing OCR on these printed manuals, as
Brian appears to be doing (judging from the three or four sample pages in
CUSTOM.ZIP), is exceedingly laborious (albeit meritorious!). If I had the
text, I could make a PDF out of it in less time than it takes to write this
message. It would look just like the manual, too. Surely somebody has these
files stashed away...

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Robert Holmgren
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