To: longshadow
The problem isn't just the pdf format, which has a useful text select tool. The document seems to be created from image files of mediocre xeroxes of real paper. That's why you can't select anything. Despite appearances, each page is an image and not text.
82 posted on
11/06/2005 2:14:16 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
The document seems to be created from image files of mediocre xeroxes of real paper. That's why you can't select anything. Despite appearances, each page is an image and not text. That would explain it....
To: VadeRetro
Despite appearances, each page is an image and not text.Ah. That explains it. I tried to excerpt enough to make a decent thread out of it, but I couldn't. And I didn't want to wait for someone to post an HTML version.
84 posted on
11/06/2005 2:22:08 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(Reality is a harsh mistress. No rationality, no mercy)
To: VadeRetro
use a PDF to HTML converter
88 posted on
11/06/2005 2:32:11 PM PST by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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