For what it is worth, I have found that the utility pdftotext
distributed with the freely distributable program xpdf
<http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/> does a reasonable job extracting text
from pdf files. I just tried it with the TR manual and it produced text
that looked more or less OK. I only looked at a few pages.
I am much happier with pdf than with the previous word for windows
documents that I could not easily read or print. If other formats are
contemplated please continue distributing the pdf ones too.
73 Kevin w9cf
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Kevin Schmidt, w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu, http://fermi.la.asu.edu/w9cf
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504
(602) 965-8240
(602) 965-7954 (FAX)
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