You can easily search a PDF
Its searchable now, I tried it. Apparently it was written when it was unsearchable.
.pdfs which are just images and don’t contain text aren’t searchable.
If any Repub had a spine, he’d post it as searchable text.
Not if it's a PDF of an image instead of text.
AppyPappy wrote:When they were first posted, they were scanned images in a PDF file, one graphic image per page. This was bad in two ways. First, you couldn't search for text in the "pictures." Also, the original PDF files were huge.
You can easily search a PDF
If you had a PDF reader that could do OCR on the graphics, you could extract the text and search it. But with a plain Adobe reader, you couldn't search.
Some time after 8 this morning, they changed the files on the house rules committee server. After that, they were much smaller PDF's, with mostly searchable text, and graphic overlays for the hand written notes. This might have been in response to complaints that the oiginal files couldn't be easily searched.
Or it might have been for practical bandwidth reasons. Those servers at the house rules committee have been very slow today, even after the change over. I'm sure the links were saturated this morning when people first got up and started downloading the files.