From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 01:42:10 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 6FBF316A468 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DC113C49D for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:42:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lA41g48r063360; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id lA41g3bS063359; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <20071104014203.GB61859@thought.org> References: <20071104003851.GA98655@thought.org> <200711032103.18081.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711032103.18081.mike.jeays@rogers.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 01:42:10 -0000 On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > 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 :-) > Welll, yeah, I can view ths file with xpdf or any other viewer, but can't figure out what's blocking it from being converted to ASCII. I've seen pdfedit for linux, but haven't found it.... thanks, gary PS: can't figure out whyanybody would take a pub domain book 125 years old any say "copyright"...... *mumble* > > > > -- > Mike Jeays > http://www.jeays.ca > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org