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Jim Nagel <nets...@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:>when the results of a Google search include a PDF, Google offers to >display it as plain text. but it comes out as nonsense in Netsurf >(r9629): all the lines of text seem to be piled on top of one another. > >at least in this example: > >http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:dr7rk6-FAmcJ:www.mendip.gov.uk/Download.asp%3Fpath%3D%252FDocuments%252FRegeneration%252Fcar%2Bparks%252FGlastonbury%2BCarnival%2BRoad%2BClosure%2BOrder%2B2009.pdf+Glastonbury+carnival+traffic&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&; > Is the original pdf just an image file served up as a pdf? As pdf's from the http://whatdotheyknow.com site viewed as html work fine if they are not purely image files, as these two examples show. <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/3567/response/8806/attach/html/3/image.pdf.html> Failed. <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/19334/response/54789/attach/html/3/Rhyddid%20Gwybodaeth%20y%20Drefn%20Adolygu%20Freedom%20Of%20Information%20Review%20Procedure%203.pdf.html> Works. -- Kev Wells http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/AleQuest/ ICQ 238580561 Feeling stupid I know I am.
