Subj : Electronic publishing FDN welcomes your submissions
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Richard Webb
Date : Fri Dec 07 2007 03:29 pm

HI RUssell,

Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to ep-fdn coordinator:

RT> Well firstly by excluding pdf, you are hampering your efforts togain
RT> content,  as most people release stuf in PDF format, due to their
RT> perception, that this  is the "defacto" format for electronic
RT> publishing, i.e. you are shooting  yourself in the foot so to say
RT> ... , or both feet ...

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

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

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


Thanks,

Regards,
           Richard
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