pdftotext is a utility in the "xpdf" suite. The author is derekn@xxxxxxxxxxx,
and the site for the software is ftp.foolabs.com.
I took a brief look at the code, and nothing immediately jumps out
that is descriptive of your problem. What exactly are you typing
on the command line (including the quotes)? I tried several
variations without any obvious problems, such as:
pdftotext
(space)
-opw
(space)
(single-quote)
nature*fox
(single-quote)
(space)
testfile.pdf
(enter)
(where "single-quote" above refers to key two to the right of the
"L" ("ell") key on my keyboard).
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 17:14:35PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I bought an e-book, and the file is password protected. I have the
> password, and pdftotext gives you two different options for opening a
> password protected file.
> -opw for owners password, and-upw for users password.
> What I think might be the problem though is that the password has a * in
> it.
> nature*fox
> when It try using either option, I get errors suggesting that the file name
> token is too long, perhaps it is seeing the password as part of the file
> name?
> I have tried putting the file password inside less than and greater than
> signs, even putting the * in quotation marks. It seems I should be able to
> open it, but I am running out of ideas.
> Any perspective?
> Who wrote this program so I might ask them directly?
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