I have a print driver for Windows that acts as if you are printing a 
document but outputs it to a PDF file.  I don't remember where I got it, 
but it came with some other software years ago.

I think the major drawback is the number of bytes created and the labor 
involved.  PDF files are usually created from word-processing documents 
where the text starts out in the form of text.  In this case, each page 
would have to be scanned as an image -- drawings, photos, text, and all.  I 
don't know how many bytes these images would be, but I can assure you it 
will add up!  And the photos really should be done at different settings 
(allow grey scale) than the text.

Starting from an image of each page, I don't think putting them into a PDF 
is practical.  If it could be run through an optical character reader to 
convert the text to characters, it would be, but the text is mixed with 
drawings and photos.  I'm no expert, but I don't know of any software that 
does this job well enough automatically.  Proofreading the text and putting 
it together with the photos and recreating something that looks like the 
original is a major task.

So that was my thinking on the subject.

Karl Cunningham


--On Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:55 PM -0400 Travis Farmer 
 wrote:

> I have the software to do it.
> just get the full version of adobe acrobat (vs the free version).
> all you need to do is digitise the manual.
> if you can get it into word 2000 format i can encode it into PDF (free of
> charge of course). I think any digital format will work but i have had
> the  best luck with Word 2000 files.
>
> ~Travis
>
>
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>>
>> > Why not put the whole thing into a PDF document?
>>
>> Tell me this oh PSN'ers....Does someone actually have the software for
>> putting this into PDF? I would be interested in hearing from you or
>> anyone who does have the software. It was my impression that PDF
>> software was a major cost product! Otherwise I would have published with
>> it...I do know that Charles Watson uses it on seismo-watch! Charles! Is
>> this something you might be able to handle?!
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