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

 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
 RJT> other format.

 JB> I giffed them somehow, posibly using pdftops psidtopgm and ppmtogif
 JB> or maybe I just asked ghostscript to print them as gifs...

Sounds more complicated than it needs to be.  I wish I could remember what
it was that I saw...  Well,  I've got all those archived messages sitting
here for a reason. 

 RJT> The stuff on the bbs is even more of a problem,  as there are 
 RJT> things they're doing in recent files that the dos version of 
 RJT> acrobat won't deal with at all, it just tries to load the file
 RJT> and gives up,  with an error message

 JB> is there a dos ghostview .... (hmm prolly not seing as it wants X),

Nope.

 JB> anyway, ghostview is way-slow with PDF files. xpdf is much faster.

I'm not sure what's being used,  but in Konqueror when I select a pdf file
it displays it.  I downloaded a bunch of data sheets last night,  and I'm
in the middle of finding out that there are lots of duplicates in there --
apparently when it covered more than one part they'd just put multiple
copies of the file in the file area under different names!  Well that'll
save me on some disk space,  anyhow.

I'm also bumping into a lot of these where there are a couple of pages but
the second one is only listing that company's trademarks and defining some
terms.  I could quite happily throw that away if there was some easy way to
edit these.

Ah well,  it seems like most data sheets for different parts that I find on
the 'net are in pdf format.  I guess it beats trying to accumulate those
books.  I haven't received much in the way of new data books in *years*.

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