Barb, I have a program that converts pdf to html. It works quite well and doesn't put everything on the same line. I can send you the tarball, but you will have to install it. John On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Barbara J Wagreich wrote: > Hi Listers: > > there are two pdf to text conversion programs available in the Red Hat > linux distribution: > pdf2txt > pstotext > (I'm not sure of the exact names off the top of my head but these are > close.) > > I've encountered a problem in converting PDF files to text using these two > programs. For some reason I don't understand, the conversion does not put > on separate lines text that appears on separate lines on the printed page, > but rather puts them all on the same line. This is disconcerting > especially when it comes to shell programming code. > > Is there a way to fix this problem sothat indented text appears on > separate lines? the programs seem to look for a blank line to denote the > end of the paragraph so to speak. > > thanks for your feedback on this problem. > Barbara Wagreich > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703