[CL] Done!

John F. Sowa sowa at bestweb.net
Mon Jan 22 18:17:03 CST 2007


First, I'd like to thank Harry for all the work in
managing, editing, and assembling all our contributions.
Having done some such things in the past, I realize that
it is (a) an enormous amount of work, (b) mostly thankless,
and (c) seriously underpaid.

Second point, I don't know what process was used to generate
the PDF file.  What I tried was (a) opening the .doc file
in OpenOffice and (b) exporting it as PDF.

I found the following space requirements:

Original .doc file:  833K

Harry's .pdf file:  8.1 Megabytes

The OpenOffice .pdf file:  683K

That is almost a 12 to 1 ratio in space requirements for
the version Harry produced vs. the one from OpenOffice.

However, I did notice that OpenOffice changed some of the
details in formatting.  I haven't seen anything other than
cosmetic changes, but the OO generated file is several
pages shorter.  I'm traveling now, and I don't have a
chance to print out either file and do a page by page
comparison.

If anyone has the time and interest to examine the two
versions, I'd be happy to send them the OO .pdf file
upon request.

John



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