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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