Re: [WinMac] PDFWriter vs. Distiller

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:39:19 -0400

At 01:06 AM 10/9/98 +1000, Mr Stux wrote:
>>I haven't used PDFWriter in a while, but my experience on both
>>Mac and Windows, was that it do a very poor job of handlng graphics.
>>I would not use it in any case that included anything other than text.
>>
>>But, even though I =thought= I tested this again with version 3.0,
>>I can't swear that I did, so if someone knows to th contrary, they're
>>probably right.
>I find an excellent use for PDFwriter is for printing webpages!!!
>
>Sure they're big but by gollly... it beats saving as text! or source...
>
>I think in MacOS 8.5 Sherlock can also index PDF files... is this true?
>or is it just being silly and indexing a whole pile of PS commands?

As long the text in the PDF is actually text not a graphical representation
of text (like a page scanned w/o OCR), you can already search the contents
of a PDF in the Mac's Find File by holding down the option key before
clicking the menu for search criteria (hold down Option adds 'contents'
'visibility' and a couple others). A contents search will check the
contents of every data fork for text to compare to the keywords you typed
in. Sherlock's indexing will just make the use of a contents search much
faster.

Windows users can do the same thing with files including PDFs by going to
the 'Advanced' tab in the Find window and typing in whatever in the
"Containing text:" field.

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Curtis Wilcox           cwcx@cc.rochester.edu
Desktop Systems Consultant       716/274-1160
Eastman School of Music       Pager: x12-3290


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