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From: Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: HOW2 remove page breaks?
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NoHtmlMailsPlease wrote:

> Adobe can read your *.pdf text to you while you're lying down.
> But the un-natural pauses at the page breaks, cause loss of already
> difficult
> understanding, of the synthetic speech.
> 
> Linux:OpenOffice converts the text to *.pdf; but obviously thinks in terms
> of
> pages [A4], so it can't be set for an infinite length page.
> 
> OTOH converting pdf <-> ps is possible; so perhaps some ps-tool can remove
> the
> <page-breaks>?
> 
> I'm guessing that the ps-code has simply got <standard page-break>
> instructions,
> which are just deleteable. Or is there some 'global check' which will then
> be
> invalid?
> 
> == TIA.


The only chance you might have when creating the PDF or PS is to set the 
bottom and top margins to (nearly) zero and telling Acrobat or Reader to 
supress the gaps between pages.

Note that both PostScript and PDF use a default coordinate system the origin 
of which is the lower left corner of the page.
And even if you transform the coordinate system too have the origin at the 
upper left corner, you cannot set up a page which has infinite length (e.g. 
simly because of the limited size of integers in real computers).

Helge