Date:         Tue, 13 May 2003 09:49:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: ETKA on a Mac
Comments: To: "rmstewart@mac.com" <rmstewart@mac.com>
In-Reply-To:  <BAE695E8.64E9%rmstewart@mac.com>
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They are not stored as Acrobat files on the EKTA.

One could "rip" them using Acrobat, sending them to PDF writer, but sheesh,
would be a long process.

As far as I can see its a proprietary format with "hyperlinks" embedded and
a searchable database.

Good luck porting for other platforms!


Alistair

-- 
'82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
albell@uvic.ca
http://members.shaw.ca/albell



on 13/5/03 9:30 am, rmstewart@mac.com wrote:

>> Jim, 
>> 
>> thanks for the background, I am mac consultant. It shouldn¹t be that
>> difficult
>> to pull the acrobat files off the cd and put onto a mac volume. It should be
>> pretty easy to do. I run a white 500mhz G3 iBook. I have vpc but my screen
>> only goes to 1024x768. I will make a donation to pickup the cd and see if I
>> can¹t extract the pdf¹s so we can make a mac cd or just post the files on a
>> website.
>> 
>> thanks again for the info.
>> robert
>> nyc