thank you. On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:38:00 +0200 (MET DST) Anton Ertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote: > > > > > > I have the very informative gforth.ps file in the system. However it > > is not searchable as it doesn't seem to include the actual text of > > the document, just an image. I tried pstopdf which produced another > > nice image, but of course still not searchable. > > I am not sure why you think that the text is represented as an image > (it is not). > yes my mistake perhaps. I was viewing gforth.ps in kghostviewer, which doesn't have a search facility. I thought "I'll convert this to pdf with ps2pdf and search it within acroread" It didn't work (searched 256 pages for "forth" and got nothing) I assumed the fault was in gforth.ps, but it was probably in my (mis)use of ps2pdf. Thanks again. > For on-line reading, including searching, I use the info format. > Searchable alternatives are the plain text file, and the unsplit HTML > version. They are available at > > http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/gf062txt.zip > http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/gforth.html.gz > > If you insist on PDF, I just did > > #make a version with Type1 fonts, old xpdfs don't display Type3 > dvips -t letterSize -Z doc/gforth.dvi -Pcmz -o doc/gforth.ps > ps2pdf doc/gforth.ps doc/gforth.pdf > and xpdf seems to search it quite fine. > > I have put the result on > > http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/gforth-0.6.2.pdf > > > Is there some source file for this doc which I could make into a > > searchable pdf document? > > The source files are doc/gforth.ds and many others. The best starting > point for conversion to all other formats is doc/gforth.texi. > > - anton > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
