Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:03:17 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf edit again. Message-ID: <200711032103.18081.mike.jeays@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <20071104003851.GA98655@thought.org> References: <20071104003851.GA98655@thought.org>
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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
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