On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote: PDF is a proprietary Adobe format. The only products that handle it properly are Adobe products, which then output only in proprietary Adobe formats. It would be much better to have the text in HTML or Postscript, and the graphics in GIF, TIFF, or JPEG. > --- Richard Atkinson <rga24@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > I have been given a photocopy of 'Commodore VIC-20 Service notes' by Dr > > Tony Duell... > > I have a sheaf of 2022-printed and daisy-wheel-printed documents entitled > "Commodore Service Notes" from 1982. I got them from a defunct Commodore > dealer some time back. I expect from your description that the VIC-20 Service > Notes are authentic as they resemble the kind of information in the documents > that I have. > > I am in the process of scanning and OCRing what I have. The first part (which > is almost done) is a six-page appendix listing ROM locations and revision > numbers for 4K PETs through VIC-20's including some printers and disks. > > On the subject of preservation... for this stuff, I have scanned it, OCRed > it (it's all typed tables) and then taken the text and imported into Word > (stop booing ;-), reformatted it as tables (not space-delimited, fixed-font > tables) and run it through Acrobat. I now have a second rough-draft of a > new document which visually resembles the original (with one or two > handwritten notes entered in as additional tables) and is tiny. I can, of > course, save it as a plain old text file, but even the original had some bold > and some underlined headers. > > What's the collected thought here? I wouldn't want to attempt to re-capture > entire schematics into a new format, and there is, of course, the possiblity > of a transcription error (which is why I haven't release the ROM document > yet)., > > If it _is_ possible to turn old typewritten pages into PDF files, the question > is _should_ we do so. > > -ethan > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > - > This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. > To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi. > - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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