On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 07:56:58PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 05:23:02PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > On 06/09/2016 03:25 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > >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 > > > > Yes, that gets fig 12-1, but. > > > > I was able to extract pg 39 for fig 7-7 to a file fred.pdf, but the > > pdfimages did not create a foo-1 file. > > There's something weird about that document, there a number of figures > that do not show up in the pdfimages output. here's what it lists for > the entire document: > > page num type width height color comp bpc enc interp object ID x-ppi y-ppi size ratio > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 0 image 459 164 index 1 8 jpx no 2737 0 257 257 9714B 13% > 1 1 image 459 164 index 1 8 jpx no 2738 0 257 257 12.9K 18% > 1 2 stencil 394 186 - 1 1 ccitt no 2739 0 301 301 436B 4.8% > 1 3 stencil 394 184 - 1 1 ccitt no 2740 0 301 300 398B 4.4% > 1 4 stencil 387 182 - 1 1 ccitt no 2741 0 301 300 413B 4.7% > 1 5 stencil 387 55 - 1 1 ccitt no 2742 0 301 300 61B 2.3% > 1 6 stencil 387 116 - 1 1 ccitt no 2743 0 301 300 139B 2.5% > 1 7 stencil 387 256 - 1 1 ccitt no 2744 0 301 301 515B 4.2% > 1 8 stencil 387 205 - 1 1 ccitt no 2745 0 301 300 220B 2.2% > 1 9 stencil 96 53 - 1 1 ccitt no 2734 0 301 301 65B 10% > 1 10 stencil 96 63 - 1 1 ccitt no 2735 0 301 300 118B 16% > 52 11 image 670 104 index 1 8 jpx no 155 0 179 150 7267B 10% > 86 12 image 675 407 index 1 8 jpx no 259 0 120 120 41.3K 15% > > so either pdfimages is busted, or some of the figures in that document > are stored/created in some unusual way. I don't know enough about PDF > internals to have a clue. > > Sorry I can't be of more help. > > Fred Oh, some more information: if I open that document with evince, and scroll to figure 12-1, I can right-click the figure and one of the options is "save image". if I scroll to fig 7-7 (or pretty much any of the figures in there) and right-click the image, I DO NOT get that option. more evidence that they were created/embedded differently. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (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
