Hi Wirt,
You are right, the print quality is much better. I am just reluctant to
print the 778 page COBOL manual and not have the keyword search.
What is strange to me is that you can actually cut and paste the text from
the manual, it just looks "fuzzy" in the PDF file.
Could that just be a feature of Acrobat Reader 4.0 to select text from an
image?
Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 June 2000 04:21
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Subject: Re: TRANSACT manual PDF Version


Fred asks:

> Funny thing is, two hours after my previous message to you, I received the
>  CD-ROM for MPE/iX 6.5 PDF documentation. I use Acrobat 4.0 and can read
most
>  manuals perfectly OK, except for the COBOL and TRANSACT manuals that
appear
>  out of focus.
>  Do you experience the same?

These manuals were put into PDF format (i'm presuming) using Adobe Acrobat
Capture product. If Capture can't recognize something as a font-based text,
it converts it into an image. What you're looking at is an image of the
page,
not PDF text, thus it tends to be very "fuzzy".

Either (i) the font that was used in the manuals is too far away from
anything that the OCR routines in Capture can recognize or (ii) the settings
for these scans & conversions were not set to conditions for optimal
conversion. If I had to guess, I would think the second is more likely.

Nonetheless, if you print the manual out onto a laser printer, where you
have
more dots per inch, it doesn't look too bad.

Wirt Atmar