[EM] How to convert to utf or pdf? (was Re: Who comes "second" in Ranked Pairs?)

Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com
Mon Oct 20 08:46:25 PDT 2008


On Oct 20, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Steve Eppley wrote:

> Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Steve Eppley wrote:
>>
>>> (It's best viewed with the Internet Explorer browser, I think,  
>>> since it uses a Microsoft character set where Greek symbols are  
>>> used.  For instance, my Firefox browser renders the epsilon  
>>> symbol, which means "is an element of," as an I with a caret on  
>>> top.  Sorry.)
>>
>> It's also not accessible by us Mac or Linux users. Any chance of  
>> switching to a more portable encoding, UTF, say? Or providing a pdf?
>
> Converting is a good idea.  Several years ago, I looked for a way to  
> convert to pdf for free, but without success.  Can someone recommend  
> a conversion technique?  Freeware ideally, but perhaps some simple  
> series of global replacements would work.

Is it available in another format than the html we're seeing, or was  
it created directly in FrontPage? If you can convert it to Unicode  
(perhaps using Word?), it'd be fairly straightforward to generate pdf  
or portable html.




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