On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:18:22AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> 
> > David Cantrell wrote:
> > > http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv
> > 
> > I was going to post "I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it"
> > as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat
> > plug-in in Netscape, I got "an internal error occurred" and some of the
> > letters were missing.
> 
> Serves you right for not getting the raw Postscript :-)
> 
> I've put plain-text and HTML versions up as well now.  Bow down before
> the awesome power of TeX!

I find that pdftotext (part of xpdf) does a remarkably good job of
letting you know what a pdf file has to say, without bothering with all
that tedious formatting... ;-)

-Dom

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