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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:05:47 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: [OT] Re: DJGPP: Request for license to copy IEEE Standards (fwd)
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salvador wrote:
> 
> Alain Magloire wrote:

> > - It looks by electronic they mean PDF.  Is there a pdf <-> html
> >   converter.
> 
> Yes they mean pdf, IEEE stores all the documents (even the magazines) in pdf
> files. In this way you can get access to all the magazines (published after
> 1995). There is no way to convert pdf files to html without losing too much
> information. But as Eli says: why somebody will need it if Acroread is free and
> available for most platforms? (I have it in my Linux box, is a must for people
> working in electronics, all the datasheets are in pdf format).

Recent versions of Ghostscript can even view them.  But Acroread is
nicer (too bad it isn't open source).

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Nate Eldredge
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