well, the PDF appears to be very readable in Safari. This is a pleasant surprise indeed. I have run across some PDF files doing a google search that were nothing but a series of JPG images (containing text) which locked me out of viewing them without an OCR tool. My opinion is that if anyone embeds a graphic in a PDF, that it should be describable and parsed from the text content. there is already a standard in HTML to do just this (and it wouldn't be all that hard to implement in a PDF.
hmmmm. that may be another method of viewing a man page, converting it to a text based PDF. that is something to consider. -eric On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Dennis Davis wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, ropers wrote: > >> From: ropers <rop...@gmail.com> >> To: Eric Oyen <technomage.ha...@gmail.com> >> Cc: misc <misc@openbsd.org> >> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:25:14 >> Subject: Re: man page contents [was: Re: C******.org] > > ... > >> Even with that, I didn't quite manage with OpenBSD (there seems to >> be no pdftex/pdflatex 386 port). Using my Ubuntu box, I converted >> the above tex file to a PDF, which I've taken the liberty to put >> here: http://ompldr.org/vZXcxYg (How are PDF files for you? Do >> your screen readers deem them edible?) > > I certainly have pdftex & pdflatex on my 5.1 i386 boxes. I suspect > they were installed as part of the texlive_base-2011p3.tgz package. > -- > Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK > d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101
