[Sca-cooks] PDF files

[Heleen Greenwald]

I hate PDF files for the very same reasons stated here. They are darn hard
to read, they hurt my eyes and you can't manipulate them and pull bits of
text or change it in any way...
Cousin Phillipa


>
> Adamantius explained exactly what I dislike about pdf files- you can't do
> anything to them but read them.
>
> There's not a lot I want to do to them either, but in the ones I referred
> to, a couple of those files have fonts that are difficult to read, and I'd
> like to change them over to, for example, my ptreferred font. A couple
more
> have a typo or misspekking in places I know bloody well I'm going to be
> going back to and rereading, nd they'll be irritating me every time I see
> them. Several, since most of them have good information on blacksmithing,
> have parts I'd like to be able to conveniently quote, whether for
> documentation, or for explaining something to students or
non-metalworkers.
> Only way I can do that is to specificly print the appropriate pages (which
> also means I have to specificly print the attribution on yet another page
or
> type it all out- and that can be a bit of a pain.
>
> I don't usually worry too much for smaller pdf files, but these are pretty
> large (1-2 Mb) and very dense with very interesting information and
> pictures. I suppose I could do as Adamantius has done, and manipulate them
> as I might any other graphic file, but it's a real pain in the tuchus.
>
> You might, btw, Stefan, want to add some information about these files to
> the Florilegium. What they are, is a series of pamphlets which were
> published last century on various topics by the Brits and made available
by
> their " Countryside Agency". They include serious information on such
topics
> as Blacksmithing, Metalwork for engineers, thatching a roof, saddlery,
wheel
> making, and furniture design. While, for example, the furniture  pamphlet
> consists of a series of pictures of mostly more modern (18th century or
> later) designs, with little attribution as to when/wheres, it does have a
> couple of pictures of 16th century furniture. The one on engineering
metals
> is something I suggested to Adamantius, to give him ideas of what I'm
> talking about when I discuss metalwork with him, and is an excellent
> reference for different metals and alloys, their common uses,
temperatures,
> characteristics, composition, etc (A, it's the section on steel that I
most
> wanted you to read.
>
> The one on thatching describes in detail a technique for roofing that goes
> back well into out period, with some beautiful examples of modern thatched
> roofs. In short, the entire batch of information is serious stuff, and
> FREE...
>
> Saint Phlip,
> CoDoLDS
>
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
>
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
>
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