Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:36:25 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Jona Joachim <jo-ml@hcl-club.lu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf edit again. Message-ID: <20071104063625.GB35764@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <pan.2007.11.04.04.12.44.339463@hcl-club.lu> References: <20071104003851.GA98655@thought.org> <200711032103.18081.mike.jeays@rogers.com> <20071104014203.GB61859@thought.org> <pan.2007.11.04.04.12.44.339463@hcl-club.lu>
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:12:48AM +0100, Jona Joachim wrote: > On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > 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* > > The guy who scanned the book did actually invest a considerable amount > of work into scanning it and he can claim copyright for that work. > The text itself may be in the public domain but the pdf file is subject to > copyright. > So then I could consier my HTML version of the philosophy books that friends and I OCR'd in. --Yes, it is a Lot of work... but as least for myself, i wouldn't be that crass. gary > Best regards, > Jona > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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