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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 :-)




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Mike Jeays
http://www.jeays.ca



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