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On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:00 +0000, Julian Hall wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > > On 3/12/2007, "viv" wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:43 +0000, John Hansen wrote: > >> > >>> I would be happy to buy the CD as I would be able to dispose of the > >>> magazines lying around ;-) > >>> > >>> John > >>> > >>> > >> John - this was my plan too. I have a large pile of them and not much > >> room. Viv > >> > > > > Me too. I think I have pretty much all LXFs since issue 13... that's a > > lot of paper! > > > > :) > > Grant. > > > > > Much as I admire the venture, and support the aims fully, I feel I > should point out one issue which will cause a problem. For an archive > to be really useful it would need to be searchable, and *if* [1] the > scans are simply graphics of each page that would make the text content > impossible to search. That would mean that each article would need to > be read and saved in an appropriately labelled folder which would be > horribly time consuming. If OCR is planned then that would help the > situation. > > Possibly by contacting the publishers (which I believe is planned > anyway) the suggestion could be floated of having any articles they do > still have in electronic copy released as HTML. I'm assuming that they > possess a certain number of articles still in electronic form, or they > could not produce back copies (unless they just retained a quantity of > unsold ones?). Possibly they possess more than a year in electronic > form but have never been made aware of a need for them before. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > > [1] I'm presuming here > Hi Julian, Re articles being searchable, I have full Acrobat (inc. Capture) and therefore can create searchable PDF's (if I do the job in Windows). I don't know if there is a tool for doing this in Linux ? I have already contacted (emailed) the publishers but, have not had a response as yet. I think I will call them later and see what I can find out. Viv -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html