Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:


 JB> 30-Oct-03 04:05:53, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Tom Walker

 TW>> I also dislike PDF anyhow as it is a bloated format and even when
 TW>> you download the Document is is frustratingly slow to browse
 TW>> through.

 JB>  - - -

 RJT> I saw *something* at some point in the not-too-distant past (few
 RJT> months?) that said as to how you could convert these to some other
 RJT> format.  A few that I've accumulated recently are absurdly large, 
 RJT> up to maybe half a meg for _a data sheet_ for one chip!  If I can
 RJT> find that info I'll have a go at doing that on some number of the
 RJT> files here.

If you or anyone else comes up with an easy method for converting PDF
format to plain old ASCII text, I sure would like to know about it!

    Everett 
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