From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: ANSI X3.226 in PDF at a bargain References: <3210929395976977@clemacs.org> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3210940486298743@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 15:54:46 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1001951686 193.90.206.117 (Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:54:46 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:54:46 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:17203 * Kent M Pitman | Hmm. Well, they were given PostScript files so I can't imagine they didn't | just distill them. The PDF document is a scan. It is _pathetic_, as Raymond Toy said, and I should have saved my dollars and not wasted the bandwidth. Bummer. I have not transferred the 50M Ada standard, but I suspect it is just as bad, and will complain to ANSI for this low-quality product. | Probably just not as many font shifts. It's those font shifts that | enabled all the hyperlinks to be created from the TeX. Nah, the C++ standard is a regular PDF file with real text. | I wonder if the price fell due to its age or due to a change in ANSI | policy. It would be great if ANSI didn't see paper publishing as its | source of funding. It appears that all electronic standards from ANSI are USD 18, now, but I have only checked computer-related ones. _I_ think this is fantastic, but the ISO versions are ten to twenty times more expensive, so at least one of the behemoths have seen the light. ///