Schematics Archive (II) and PDFs

[Gene Zumchak]

    Maybe I don't have the latest Adobe program, but I was incredulous that when
printing pages of a .PDF file that there wasn't an option for printing odd and
even pages.  I like to print odd pages and then put the paper back into the
printer and print the even pages.  Printing single sided is a waste of paper and
takes up a lot more space.



KA4HJH wrote:

> >>> I've got to vote for PDF.  A lot of people aren't aware but it has a FAST
> >>> search engine in it.  Try that with a gif or jpg!
> >
> >well....it isn't going to search a SCANNED image for text.
>
> True. That's why you OCR the scan to recover the text.
>
> >I'm happy to see anything in any format.
> >But, for me, PDF is more of a problem than anything except .ps
>
> That's because PostScript is a threaded-interpetive language for imaging
> and typesetting. Did you know that you can't go to page 100 in a PostScript
> document and print it? That's becasue the whole thing is one big computer
> program. The RIP has to run the program until it gets to page 100, then it
> can print it. With a big job file this can take a while.
>
> PDF is a language similar to PostScript, but with some of the kinks ironed
> out. Like being able to go to page 100.
>
> It's nice to be able to put multiple drawings/pages into on document, and
> not have the text take up a lot of space and still look good scaled or
> printed. That's the idea, anyway.
>
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"