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[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Susan Osborne wrote:
>
> > Some of our scientists have started to download and store articles
> > from electronic journals. As their collection of stored PDF files
> > increases they have commented upon the large amount of disk space
> > required. They also wonder if there is any way of indexing the data
> > that they have stored.
>
> I'm afraid I have no advice to offer Susan. But as a quick (possibly
> dumb) comment to the elib list, two things come to mind.
>
> PDF, from our perspective, is "under review" as a document format.
> we may yet adopt it, or something like it. However, we do keep
> noticing that readers find its problems more readily than its
> advantages.
On the question of PDF vs other formats, you may be entertained by:
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/articles/gdn-html.htm
Mike Holderness
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike
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