pdf's of Acts

[James Hammerton]

> 
> > Does anyone know where pdf's of Acts can be found on the net? I'm fed 
> up
> > looking at the HMSO "chunked" html ones, and they are only available 
> for the
> > last ten years or so anyway.
> > 
> > If no-one can help there, I could put pdf's of Acts on the net for 
> download,
> > if I could get them. I'm willing to convert the HMSO ones to pdf's, 
> if
> > people think it's worthwhile, and I suppose I could get hold of some 
> earlier
> > ones that aren't available like PACE and OCR them. It would be 
> limited to
> > Acts that are of interest to this group (and cyber-rights-uk), but I 
> might
> > include some EU/HO stuff too.
> > 
> > Is this a good idea? Anyone interested in helping?
> 
> There is a project to produce a database web-site with all current acts 
> available. It is currently rumoured to be going public next June or so. 
> Do not hold your breath.
> 
> Though the HMSO site Acts are, as you say, chunked, I still see .pdf's 
> as the spawn of the devil. They are inherently 'anti-net', and half the 
> machines I use either do not read or print them properly, and they are 
> awful to use.

I've not had any trouble with them under either Linux, Unix or
Windows. AFAICT so long as you get acroread (freeware) you can view
and print them.

But having .ps files of the legislation would be good too.

An alternative is single file HTML or even plain ASCII...
 
James