Subj : Electronic publishing FDN welcomes your submissions
To   : Richard Webb
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Fri Dec 07 2007 08:35 pm

Hello Richard.

07 Dec 07 15:29, you wrote to me:

 RW> Maybe so, but for years this was not the "de facto" standard" but I
 RW> can tell you that it does me no good to install acrobat reader for any
 RW> platform. A file that is in graphical format isn't going to do a
 RW> darned thing for my screenreader. THese files have to be printed out,
 RW> then run through a scanner and optical character recognition run over
 RW> the resulting files the scanner produces before they can be read by
 RW> folks who must use screen access technology.

As you say, if you need to vet it personally, then there is not much to be 
done about it, I have just downloaded 2 files that would fit your distribution 
filebone, except they are in PDF format, subject matter being UHF anttena 
design, they have been released under the Creative Commons Lisence, like many 
others I have, your requirements greatly reduce the "usefullness of your 
"effort", which I regard as a pity, but to a point I understand your 
situation.

 RW> Anybody who wants to set up an fdn for pdf publishing is sure welcome
 RW> to do so. I just have no way of vetting that file type for legality
 RW> and other checks.

That will not be me, I simply have too many other things that keep me busier 
than I need be ...

 RW> some of the gutenberg stuff was released in an older version of this
 RW> network, ep-ascii which was on the backbone some years ago. I've
 RW> searched out a few sources, so let me know what you find in the
 RW> gutenberg titles I'll compare it against my archives here and see
 RW> what's already been distributed in ep-ascii over the years.  Many
 RW> older system will already have theirs available.

Will look at it sometime, as I have a need for some stuff I saw there, when 
time permits ...

Russell

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