Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:09:21 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting pdfs with xpdf Message-ID: <43DFEE21.4010705@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <005e01c6269f$56dd7f50$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <003c01c62683$36c92140$0200a8c0@satellite> <6504AD07-644C-48E2-A796-95AE35D1F251@u.washington.edu> <005e01c6269f$56dd7f50$0200a8c0@satellite>
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Dave wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks. That gives me a starting place. I'll probably do it with
> sed, i'm more familiar with that. Have you converted pdfs with
> ghostscript? I'm looking for the commands i would have to issue. The
> pdfs i want to convert to ps and to regular text files.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Cooper"
> <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: converting pdfs with xpdf
>
>
>> 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
Take a gander at this:
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-3899.html. Basically
all you need is pdf2ps, which is available with the port
<print/gnu-ghostscript>.
-Garrett
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