HI RUssell,

Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to ep-fdn coordinator:

RT> Well firstly by excluding pdf, you are hampering your efforts togain
RT> content,  as most people release stuf in PDF format, due to their
RT> perception, that this  is the "defacto" format for electronic
RT> publishing, i.e. you are shooting  yourself in the foot so to say
RT> ... , or both feet ...

Maybe so, but for years this was not the "de facto"
standard" but I can tell you that it does me no good to install
acrobat reader for any platform. A file that is in graphical format isn't
going to do a darned thing for my screenreader. THese files have to be
printed out, then run through a scanner and optical character recognition
run over the resulting files the scanner produces before they can be read
by folks who must use screen access technology.

Anybody who wants to set up an fdn for pdf publishing is sure welcome to do
so. I just have no way of vetting that file type for legality and other
checks.

some of the gutenberg stuff was released in an older version of this
network, ep-ascii which was on the backbone some years ago. I've searched
out a few sources, so let me know what you find in the gutenberg titles
I'll compare it against my archives here and see what's already been
distributed in ep-ascii over the years.  Many older system will already
have theirs available.


Thanks,

Regards,
           Richard
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