About "A Taste of Smalltalk"

Karl Ramberg squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Sat Oct 5 12:19:02 UTC 2002


Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Russell Penney wrote:
> 
> > Then turn it into a PDF, much smaller than bitmaps.
> 
> If you're going to PDF it, no need for the manual typing routine.  Adobe
> Acrobat has a OCR facility that should be mostly fine for typeface stuff
> like this, manual labor would be better put into proof reading the final
> PDF.  I have Acrobat 5 at my work machine, so as soon as all the JPEGs are
> done, I could convert it to a PDF.  One caveat though- we switched to
> Acrobat 5 from 3, and the OCRing facilities got really crappy in Acro 5.
> I've not been able to get 3 and 5 to co exist, but when I get the chance,
> I could install Acro 3 on a machine with no Acrobat.
> 
> Just let me know when they're all done, and try to rotate them so they're
> level, crop out page-outlines- makes the OCR go better and the final PDF
> look a lot nicer.
> 
This document would also be nice to have OCR'ed. I started but my OCR software
sucks.

Karl



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