From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 01:03:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B92616A468 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1362C13C4B8 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:03:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 2791 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2007 01:03:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=oXXy5uj75qug0HjdodGmPF53zMQdBJYJmJDidQQ2tUGxcBf9pmsGunfgP/E76xabwKgyvlTJV/5TzF2SdDtCxAWImnVeG6k//LsbeAlMCMP4W+RtEwSKlVUMTnkwh0bYSjP1HCqjxm89KWmZKoFpRfBEqDLK6XrxA2lf2o+BrGw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.local) (mike.jeays@rogers.com@99.224.73.40 with login) by smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2007 01:03:04 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: GSSwe6UVM1nMVYUKGl9lhl7ityiEkyNJ.GKqyaItP.GBdmam7eTXFm3Nl6STYekG8A-- From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:03:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <20071104003851.GA98655@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071104003851.GA98655@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711032103.18081.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Re: pdf edit again. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:03:18 -0000 On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote: > A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF > files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never > thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book > from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 > version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is > there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid > of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for > the grammar.... ) > > gary Try gv and xpdf. You might get lucky. Otherwise - try od :-) -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca