Re: Shamos Rebuttal, Draft 1 PDF problems

Hello:

Kathy, et al, you were probably using the 'hand' tool in the Adobe PDF
viewer. Try using the 'Select Text' tool which looks like a capitol I.
Also, I think the File>Extract tool in GhostGum would allow you to create an
editable file. HTH

-- 
Thanks, Edmund R. Kennedy
Always work for the common good.
10777 Bendigo Cove
San Diego, CA 92126-2510
USA
I blog now and then at: <http://ekennedyx.blogspot.com/>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Mertz" <voting-project@gnosis.cx>
To: "Open Voting Consortium discussion list" <ovc-discuss@listman.sonic.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [OVC-discuss] Shamos Rebuttal, Draft 1
>>> 2.  scratch "entertaining" and "(sometimes rather amusing)" from the 
>>> Abstract. It makes you sound unprofessional IMO.
>> I wrote "entertaining..." as a subtle jibe at Shamos's clear 
>> unprofessionalism. If his paper had been passable, I might have written 
>> "informative" instead. I'm open to changing it, but let's see what others 
>> think.
>
> The word that came to my mind is "sophistical"--I was far from entertained 
> by it.  Maybe "crudely duplicitous" would fit as well.
>
>> I'll post a DOC for the next version. I generated the PDF by "save as 
>> PDF" in Mac Word. Odd that it doesn't allow editing.
>
> PDF is not an editable format, after all (well... it *is*, but not 
> easily).  But it should allow cut-and-paste.  Maybe Word adds the nasty 
> permission restrictions that PDF enables.  FWIW, some readers other than 
> Adobe Acrobat are sensible enough to ignore those permissions--e.g. 
> GhostView (not sure about OSX's Preview in this regard).
>
>
> -----
> If I seem shortsighted to you, it is only because I have stood on the 
> backs of midgets.
>
> _______________________________________________
> OVC discuss mailing lists
> Send requests to subscribe or unsubscribe to 
> arthur@openvotingconsortium.org 
_______________________________________________
OVC discuss mailing lists
Send requests to subscribe or unsubscribe to arthur@openvotingconsortium.org
==================================================================
= The content of this message, with the exception of any external 
= quotations under fair use, are released to the Public Domain    
==================================================================