- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:43:48 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> From: Waddell, Cynthia [SMTP:cynthia.waddell@ci.sj.ca.us] > > Below is a passage from another Adobe web page > > (http://access.adobe.com/access_faq.html) specifically referencing PDF [DJW:] ... > an image-only PDF, that is, a bit-map image contained in a PDF file. Many > > organizations convert their old forms to PDF files by simply scanning them > > > into Acrobat, rather than creating a PDF with searchable text. These > [DJW:] Anyone who has created a new official form in the last 15 or so years almost certainly produced a PostScript file at some point in the process of preparing it for printing. PostScript is trivially convertible to PDF with proper text. Although the machine readable sources of forms may have been lost, I suspect part of the problem is that the people putting them on web sites don't understand the print production process and therefore start from the hard copy, when they should start from the photo-setter input, or further back in the chain. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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