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000106_icon-group-sender _Wed Apr 24 16:58:38 1996.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:23:37 MST
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:58:38 -0400
From: dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (J. Dashiell)
Message-Id: <199604242058.QAA29909@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>
To: cshuster@ccmail.com, Charlie Hethcoat <CHETHCOA@oss.oceaneering.com>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Why isn't Icon more widely used? -Reply
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: O
I don't know that there's a means of getting pdf to ascii yet
other than to use adobe's reader.
Only problem with that is, that's totally graphical in nature.
It writes to the screen using pixels.
If someone were able to write a converter that could take both
pdf and rip and convert them into ascii under dos using an ascii
screen interface they'd make that information useable by the
speech synthesizer using community. Right now, it's difficult getting .ps
converted and impossible getting .pdf converted unless a computer with windows
is involved, and even then it's a tricky operation for the
first time windows user.
jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>