PDF Explained

[Rich Caloggero]

Yes, and it is really slow and clumsy. The reader itself is a pain, and the
"accessibility features" are just structure tags, which should be part of
any good electronic document these days. I believe the real reaon for the
existance of PDF is copyright protection. The PDF format does include
digital rights management components and encryption software.

                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: 08 March, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: RE: PDF Explained


Rich, have you checked out what Adobe has to offer for accessibility. They
have done some work in making PDF accessible.
Well worth checking out.


Steve Dawes
PH:  (403) 268-5527.
Mailto:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca



-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Caloggero [mailto:rjc at MIT.EDU]
Sent: 2002 March 08 2:35 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: PDF Explained


Can anyone explain exactly what PDF is. Most importantly, how it relates to
postscript? My under    standing is that it is a data format, optimized for
representing documents. It is a binary format, and not only     stores the
document text, but font info, formatting info, links, bookmarks, and other
objects like images and sound. It does include security/encryption
provisions. Can anyone be more complete? I'm trying to get a handle on
accessibility and understand more about the relationship between postscript
and PDF.

                    Rich Caloggero
                    MIT ATIC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: Hardware Question


> Yeah, he should look at the bios first. However, my intention was to get
the jumpers set first, see if it works as is, then if not, yes, do check the
bios. I avoided the secondary controller option, because most 486 machines
I've seen had to ide ports, that were in fact the one and only controller.
So, I didn't want to totally confuse him, if this happened to be the case
with his motherboard.
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >
> > > You need to set a jumper on the hard drive as master (I've also seen
some older drives where there was a master with slave option, use that if
your drive has such a setting). You also need to set your cd-rom drive's
jumper to slave. Hth.
> > > Greg
> > ok, just to add to this, you'll need to check your cmos/bios setings to
> > ensure that your drives are being detected correctly.
> > it's not just a matter of setting the jumpers and hoping for the best.
> > this is where alot of people go wrong.
> > if possible put the cdrom on a seperate ide controler and I personally
> > would set it as secondary master. I will stand to be corrected on this
but
> > if that doesn't work, slave it to your hard drive as either a primary
> > slave on the primary ide controler or as a secondary slave on the
> > secondary ide controler.
> > please feel free to correct me anyone as I don't always get things
right.
> > --
> > qShaun Oliver
> >
> > Marriage is a three ring circus:
> > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
> >                 -- Roger Price
> >
> > Email: shauno at goanna.net.au
> > Icq: 76958435
> >
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