Re: converting pdfs with xpdf

Garrett Cooper <youshi10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:51:02 -0800

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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