Re: The Apple II Redbook Manual Online

[Ralf Quint <ralf_quint@hotmail.com>]

On 05 Mar 2001 20:25:34 GMT, cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

>Patrick Schaefer  replied asking:
>
><<Does anybody own an Adobe Acrobat license? A .pdf file will be much easier to
>handle than this bulk of jpegs.>>
>
>Yes I do have the full Adobe Acrobat v4.0 application for the Mac PPC.  But,
>when I tried making it in that pdf file format it was actually much, much
>larger than the zip archive - so, I deleted it as such.   I don't have the time
>or motivation now to do such a thing again or upload it online either.
>
>Perhaps somebody else with the full Adobe Acrobat
>application for the Mac or PC platform can take on such a conversion to pdf
>file project with it.
>
Well, trying to make a .PDF out of the .JPGs is not a good idea, as
you just embed the graphics into the .PDF skeleton. The only thing
that would make sense (if the JPGs are of decent quality) to run an
OCR program (like OmiPage) over it and extract the plain text parts
out of it. This way you would be able to get a Word document (or any
other word processor/DTP package) with graphics, which would result in
a much smaller .PFD file.

If you can give me the exact URL to download the .JPGs, i can give it
a shot, to see if it is feasible....

Ralf