[bksvol-discuss] Re: SIPDF?
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:35:30 -0800 (PST)
---As a "sighted idiot" grin I hate PDF. When I have a
choice of reading a site in PDF or html I always
choose html. I don't know why that is--maybe I'm just
old-fashioned.
G.Cindy
Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Oh, please, let's not go the PDF route! PDF's are
> tricky at the best
> of times and unless you know what you're doing, they
> can be absolutely
> unreadable. The reason RTF is used is that it
> retains the formatting
> of the original document, and it is convertable to
> BRF directly without
> going through a second level of conversion. As for
> the conversion to
> DAISY, an RTF file with its tags for formatting, is
> more easily
> converted to XML. Before making suggestions like
> this, please consider
> that the majority of volunteers wouldn't know a PDF
> file or how to make
> one if you asked them. Creation of PDF's is a
> technically advanced
> proposition, and, frankly, is used way, way, too
> often by sighted
> idiots who don't know what they're doing. Compound
> this with folks who
> are blind and cannot see the images which they are
> scanning except via
> the voice of a computer, and you've got a recipe for
> disaster! Please,
> no PDF's, please!!
>
> Ann P.
>
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