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[Anthony Ferrara]

well...  I do have a class that I wrote that can
extract all text from a pdf...

BTW, there IS a good site search...  It's called
Google Mini...
--- forest mars <compustretch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Graham Spice
> <graham at nuthinwerked.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Too bad the PDF indexer didn't work - that would
> have been the best, I
> > think.
> >
> 
> Adobe had the chance to make pdf the format of
> choice for moving print media
> to the web.
> 
> They dropped that ball long ago. pdf's work for what
> they are --portable
> documents-- but are completely inadequate for
> websites.
> 
> Since indexing doesn't work, you're just as well off
> to go with Flash. Oh,
> and lose the Quark too.
> 
> InDesign supports XML templating for print and while
> it has an export
> function for web based workflows, IMO the better
> solution is just to call
> the same XML from Flash that you call from InDesign
> for print. Easy peasy.
> 
> Obviously this leaves the indexibility problem
> unsolved, but preserves the
> design. Fixing indexibility may likely be a matter
> of passing off the XML
> page to the correct handler. If anyone is really
> interested in this, I'll
> save it for another email.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Forest
> -- 
> "In theory, theory and practice are exactly the
> same.
>  In practice, they're completely different."
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