Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:51:02 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: converting pdfs with xpdf Message-ID: <6504AD07-644C-48E2-A796-95AE35D1F251@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <003c01c62683$36c92140$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <003c01c62683$36c92140$0200a8c0@satellite>
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On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm running freebsd6 and xpdf 3.01_2. I've got pdfs that i want > to convert to ps and text documents in four different areas in my > home directory. I could convert them such as: > pdfto format file1.pdf file2.ps etc. > but i was wondering if there was a faster way? My second issue is > some of these files are pdf 1.6 and as i've already tried xpdf > won't convert these docs, does anyone have xpdf working with pdf > 1.6 files? > Second, after i convert all these docs there are three patterns > i'd like to remove from them, all having spaces and & signs in > them. Again, i could do this manually, but i was wondering one if > there was a faster way and two if i could do this on the tail end > of the conversion process so i would only have to issue one command > and come back probably a while later, these files are big, and it's > all done? > Thanks. > Dave. Ghostscript works wonders with PDFs and PSs, but then again I don't know how well the [linux-]acroread port works and that may be worth a shot as well. As for the removing of characters, if you have a text file you can always process it with sed or [g]awk. -Garrett
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