Re: pdf files

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Barry Cooper wrote:

<< The thing about PDF documents is that they are not editable, similar to a 
 locked file. Otherwise you can do most of the things you want to do. It is 
 even possible, online, to search across PDF documents for key words. That 
 would mean that you could search all issues for Aphyosemion, for example. 
 I'll bet you'd get a lot of hits. >>

Actually, in the full version of Acrobat, you CAN edit text, although you can 
only edit single lines and there is no word wrap.  It's OK for correcting 
minor spelling errors.  You can also insert "sticky notes" which are text 
files that appear on the page as yellow "post-it" icons which can then be 
opened by the reader.  I used this extensively when preparing PDFs for an 
online course.

When you scan directly as a pdf you have a number of options.  You can 
scan/ocr the text or you can simply scan each page as an image.  When you 
have actual text, you can index, search, etc...  When you just scan each page 
as an image, you cannot.

Now once scanned, you can also create the thumbnails and a table of contents 
from within Acrobat.  You can edit the TOC to say whatever you want, so you 
can insert the names of articles and allow users to go directly to them 
through a hyperlink.  All in all, the PDF format is one that should allow AKA 
to do what it needs to make this information available on a digital medium.


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