*headdesk*
Wednesday, 27 August 2008 – 9:13 pmMy school puts all course documents, including syllabus, readings, and class assignments, online, in PDF form. This thrilled me, as I figure I can download them all and load them up on my Kindle, so that they’re searchable and easy to read on airplanes and such.
Their PDFs are SCANNED. That is, they took word processor documents, printed them, and SCANNED them into a PDF. They are *not* searchable, not even on my computer. On Kindle, they show up as images of pages, because the Kindle can’t scale the scanned images like it can with text.
Why? Why do they do this? It is so easy to save any document to PDF. Why-oh-why would they scan them into PDF?
