[geeks] google pDF

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:37:36PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:54:09PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > I love that Google index PDFs these days.  It makes my life a lot easier.
> > I just wish they would improve the view as HTML feature.
> 
> It would be a Hard Problem to make that better.  tbh, I'd rather they
> replaced it with "view as JPEG".  That would preserve layout, which is
> often important in the PDFs I want to look at, as they contain diagrams
> and graphs and stuff.

The PDFs I look at tend to be one or two column acedemic papers with diagrams,
graphs, etc.

When it is a two column paper, conversion could be tricky.  One column papers
should be easy, but still google almost always does them pretty badly also.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd