Russell Kent
Paul,
I will spot you the ~$250 for Acrobat... :-)
[PDFs are the best way for this sort of stuff, *if* you have the
document and not some image scan of it.]
For this time, if you or Ed has a Postscript or Word version, I can
run it through the distiller here at work and get PDFs.
Paul Lamar replied:
What kind of input does Acrobat require?
Acrobat integrates with Word (& others I presume) via a Microsoft
technique called "ODMA". The Acrobat commands just magically appear
on Word's menubar.
I have the reader as most people do.
Yes, AcroReader is free. Acrobat is about US$250. With Acrobat you
can make PDFs from within Word. Adobe Distiller runs on a server and
costs about US$15,000. It makes PDFs from Psotscript files dumped
into a directory. You can "print" Postscript from within many word
processing programs.
Also .pdf files tend to be real large.
Don't be daft. We *regularly* submit Word files to the distiller
and get a 90% compression ratio (output PDFs are only 10% of the
original Word size). And Word files would certainly be smaller than
those huge scans you've been sending.
Well perhaps smaller than Word size but smaller than plain ASCII text?
I admit it is a cool way to publish books and long articles.
Yes.
If you or Ed has the article text in electronic form, put it into
Word, then take scans of the pictures and put them in Word, too.
When you've got a Word document that looks like the SAA article (or
whatever), send me the Word doc and I'll distill it to PDF. You'll
be amazed.
Russell Kent
Thanks Russell good idea. How about it Ed? What do you think?
What other WP's work other than Word? Lotus?
Paul Lamar
I certainly think it would be worth it to shrink the size of things. Of
course then everyone will have to get the AcroReader, but then it is free. I
put it into Word with photos just to see how this turns out. Give me a day
or so.
Ed Anderson
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