Re: Electronic Distribution of Copyrighted User Guides

From: Chris Lloyd/ Fulltext Dept. 5th Floor <clloyd[_at_]info.hwwilson.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:58:30 EST

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, M. K. Ramadoss <ramadoss[_at_]eden.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, JQ Johnson <jqj[_at_]darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Pamela Finkel aka Esoteric Resources asks about distribution of
> > documents in PDF rather than MS Word format as a protection
> > mechanism against the creation of unauthorized derivative works.
> > If this were in fact an efficient strategy for preventing
> > manipulation of the copyrighted material,
>
> Here is some info that may interest those wanting to convert pdf to
> wordprocessing files.

Hi, thank you for the information. A colleague suggested Datawatch's Redwing for converting PDF if anyone is interested:

Datawatch's REDWING program converts tables, text and other special characters very well -its located at:

   http://www.datawatch.com/

Also check out this web sit:

   http://www.pluginsource.com/acrobat/redwing.html

and pluginsource.com in general - considered a good site.

regards,

chris

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Christine Lloyd
H.W. Wilson Company
http://www.hwwilson.com
clloyd[_at_]hwwilson.com
718/579-3697

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