During the Test under Mask thread I was moved to consult this bible for the first time in ages. Dual column format is a major PITA. Took me twice as long to chase the bouncing ball. Totally unwarranted in the age of online browsing.
. . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 06/27/2013 09:53 AM Subject: Re: Reader Comment on SA22-7832-08 (PoPS), should I? Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On 27 June 2013 11:48, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be worth while to tell IBM that the document would be much more > readable if it were like the other manuals; having only one column of text, > except perhaps for tables? I have had nothing but good results from my RCFs to the PrOps over the years. Those have all been regarding technical matters rather than formatting, but by all means do send in your comments. I'm sure they will be quite receptive. > I wonder if it would be worth my while to try to > OCR the PDF to create something that I could import into a true DTP program > (and I'm not talking MS Word! Perhaps LaTex). OCRing shouldn't be necessary. The PDF contains the text already (as evidenced by the correct working of the "find" function) and should be editable in any PDF editor. There are no security flags set that would prevent this, but I don't know what the copyright implications of doing so might be. This is almost certainly not the right forum to get into (yet another, usually ill-informed) discussion of the copyright laws. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
