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On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:27:18 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe wrote:

> On Jan 7, 12:48*pm, blake murphy > wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:43:07 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> *"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:

>>
>>>> sf wrote:

>>
>>>>> I looked up Jacques Pepin. *It's a 49 recipe pdf. *No thanks.

>>
>>>> I looked at Pepin's KQED site for "Fast Food My Way" and saw a bunch of
>>>> quick recipes all saved as one large text file. None of them struck my
>>>> fancy, but I didn't summarily dismiss them the way you did the pdf.

>>
>>>> I'm not sure what site you were viewing, but I don't see anything outrageous
>>>> about the idea of a 49-recipe pdf. What is your objection to it? Were they
>>>> recipes you already had?

>>
>>> And if you don't want 49, I don't think it's rocket science to extract
>>> just the ones you want, and print or file those.

>>
>> the .pdfs i've seen are resistant to cut and paste. *do you have a good
>> method?

>
> I know! I hate that! I got a free pdf to txt or rtf converter.
>
> John Kuthe...


i'll have to look into this.

your pal,
blake