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Re: Archiving old magazines on website
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Charles Richmond wrote:
|Acrobat (pdf) format is convenient and makes the information
|available. IMHO it is *much* better than *not* having access
|to the information at all. Making the information readable on
|older machines should be a separate project IMHO.
|>
|> I suggest GIF. It's an old format, and I know there are readers for
|> the CoCo 3 and C=64/128, probably also Apple.
|>
|You end up with *lots* of separate files for the same issue of
|a magazine. pdf at least allows combining the pages.
Okay, so which format is best for using a search engine with?
After all, it could save a lot of time being able to zero in
on that one article (in WHICH magazine?) that rare piece of
information is being stored.