On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:11:26PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 06/09/2016 02:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >On 06/09/2016 10:55 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>On 06/09/2016 01:38 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >>>On 06/09/2016 09:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>>>What other tool can read in pdfs and provide selecting an > >>>>image (e.g. a > >>>>figure in an IEEE standard) that I can then copy over to Libre Office? > >>>> > >>>Why don't you just use LibreOffice to open the pdf? > >> > >>When I try opening IEEE 802.1AE-2006 pdf, it hangs. And it is only a > >>142pg document. > >> > >Ok, I've never tried opening one that big. And since that file is > >not publicly available, I can't test it. > > http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1AE-2006.pdf > > All 802 standards are available free 6 months after publication. We > 802 attendees pay the IEEE for this in our conference attendance > fee. > > see: > > http://standards.ieee.org/about/get/ you can use pdfseparate to extract the page you're interested int, then pdfimages to get the images on that page. with the file you point to, for example, the image from page 86 can be extracted like this: pdfseparate -f 86 -l 86 8*pdf fred pdfimages -f 1 -l 1 -png fred foo-%d which dumps page 86 to a file named fred (I know, it should be fred.pdf) then grabs the images from that page, creating .png file(s) named foo-<number> all this takes only a moment. or less. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------- Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. ----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
