I understand your frustration, but your anger is aimed at the wrong group.
The Adobe/PDF is not to blame, it's the author of the document.
I am an IBM mainframe programmer (data security), and I work with *hundreds*
of PDF documents/forms and most work fine right out of the box. If you
want to strangle someone, then find out who created the document.
Sorry if the message is poorly formatted, I have outlook setup to send as
text, but still it doesn't seem to format properly.
Regards, Ken
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From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
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Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:24 AM
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Subject: damned adobe acrobat---kill the programmers!!!
Hi folks,
THis year I got the fun of being field day chairman for our club. aT one
time one could get the rules for the event in ascii. Not anymore. Arrl
insists on using that damned acrobat non-reader.
Accessibility! What accessibility? A friend of mine tried some of the pdf
to txt sources on the net, no joy, so he tried his accessibility plug-in for
the stupid software. NO joy either. I'm about ready to raise several
different colors of hades with arrl hq on this issue.
NO folks, I'm not going to print out a doccument just to feed it to ocr
which I don't have running at the moment then throw away what was a
perfectly good tree, then print it out again in braille once I've edited out
the errors made by the ocr software.
My hatred for these folks is beginning to know no bounds. I'm going to
first see why it is the league can't use ascii for such things, smaller file
sizes are definitely an advantage, but first I wanted to see if anybody on
this list had any luck getting usable text from the damned pdf file which is
this year's fd rules first.
my real gripe is that just a few short years ago such things could be
downloaded from the league in ascii. wHy all the change for the sake of
cute? iF they'd at least create those files using text instead of an image
then the accessibility features would work according to a friend of mine who
will actually fight this gui junk, but I don't know. I put in my share of
time, actually more than many as part of the field organization and
appreciate the break on the membership fee since I get QST in another
format, but such things as contest rules etc. should be machine readable
imnsho. 73 de nf5b
Richard Webb
Electric Spider Productions
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
Historical review of Pennsylvania
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