[bksvol-discuss] Re: SIPDF?
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:03:58 -0500
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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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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