The National Academies,

[Carsten Svaneborg <zqex@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de>]

A Patent System for the 21st Century 
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:44:27 +0200
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A Patent System for the 21st Century

Stephen A. Merrill, Richard C. Levin, and Mark B. Myers, Editors, Committee 
on 
Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, National 
Research Council

It was released yesterday. Press release
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309089107?OpenDocument

The report itself, where there's a prepublication version available for
online reading.  http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10976.html



Here's a short script to fetch the pages (req: wget, ghostscript)
to produce a 16Mb collated PDF file with the entire report for
offline reading:

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $Rpages=12;
my $pages=140;
my $name="0309089107";
my $final="21cpatsys";

foreach $i (1..$Rpages)
{ 
   print "R $i of $Rpages\r";
   my $o=sprintf "___R%03d.pdf",$i;
   system "wget -q http://print.nap.edu/pdf/$name/pdf_image/R$i.pdf -O $o";;
   system "pdf2ps $o ; rm $o";
}

foreach $i (1..$pages)
{ 
   print "B $i of $pages\r";
   my $o=sprintf "___P%03d.pdf",$i;
   system "wget -q http://print.nap.edu/pdf/$name/pdf_image/$i.pdf -O $o";;
   system "pdf2ps $o";
}

print "collating..         \r";
system "cat ___R???.ps ___P???.ps > all.ps";
system "ps2ps all.ps collated.ps";
system "ps2pdf collated.ps ${final}.pdf";
system "rm -f ___*.ps ___*.pdf all.ps collated.ps";
print "done                \n";

-- 
  mvh. Carsten