As for the services at Adobe, one should beware that since they came out with Acrobat 5.0, they will discontinue any further enhancements to these online services. It wouldn't surprise me if they eventually discontinue them altogether. The Acrobat 5.0 reader has special MSAA based components for windows screen readers. Sorry, us linux users lose out on this one:(. -----Original Message----- From: Georgina Joyce [mailto:gena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 11:50 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: pdf_sec.ps patch Hi I don't understand why you need to take those steps. You can send the file to adobe: pdf2txt at adobe.com or pdf2htm at adobe.com I'm quoting from memory, so sorry if it's wrong. Here's a message from some time ago. > [...] And ghostscript includes ps2ascii, which can convert > postscript docs into text. Note that ps2ascii can also deal with pdf: NAME ps2ascii - Aladdin Ghostscript PostScript or PDF to ASCII translator SYNOPSIS ps2ascii [input.ps [output.txt]] ps2ascii input.pdf [output.txt] DESCRIPTION ps2ascii extracts ASCII text from PostScript or PDF, using gs(1). If the pathname "input.ps" is not specified, PostScript is read from standard input; PDF input must come from an explicitly-named file, not standard input. If the pathname "output.txt" is not specified, the ASCII text is written to standard output. also, pstotext is nearly the same (both ps and pdf) but reported to work better (ps2ascii suggests it). It is a separate package from gs, and it is available in Debian (can't tell about the other ones). However, to my knowledge, all free Linux documentation is written in sgml (or sometimes LaTeX), so an html or ascii version must exist somewhere. Regards /alessandro --- Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list at redhat.com Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request at redhat.com with subject line: unsubscribe Gena http://www.visson.freeserve.co.uk/ Mobile (Cell) Phone 07951 196268 -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: 22 April 2001 18:42 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: pdf_sec.ps patch Hi all, I'm trying to convert a pdf file into a ps file. I plan to then convert the ps file into ascii so I can read it. When I run pdf2ps, it tells me that the pdf file is encrypted, and I should download a patch. I got the patch it mentioned. However, when I do 'gs pdf_sec.ps', gs says that it can't open an x display. How do I apply the patch? Is there a better way to read pdf files in linux? Thanks. Greg _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
