Why not just use pdftotext which is an interface to xpdf I believe? Greg On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:31:50AM -0500, Brian Borowski wrote: > There are no problems in converting this book. Here's an easy recipe. > > * Assume you are running that most superb distribution of linux known as > debian; there's been a couple of nasty things said about debian recently by > a couple of people on here... > > * and you don't have xpdf installed, then do: > apt-get install xpdf > > * then: > xpdf 1893115852_xx.pdf > for each chapter. > > * You will end up with .txt files which are quite readable; though, they > have a little bit of leading space at the start of the lines, but > then: > > you could strip these with a one-line perl script like > > perl -pe 's/^\s+//;' input-file >output-file > > or something like that... > > Brian Borowski > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Hollie Fischer <hollie_fischer at apress.com> > > > > Good Afternoon from Apress! > > > > We have made available for free download "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP > > 4.0" by Jason Gilmore. To download a copy of the book for FREE, please > > visit www.apress.com/books/electronic/1893115852/. > > > > Forward this email to anyone in your user group, circle of friends, or place > > of business who would find a free copy of this book useful and, feel free to > > pass along your thoughts on free downloads of Apress books. > > > > Kind Regards, > > Hollie > > > > Hollie Fischer > > Apress Public Relations Assistant > > 901 Grayson Street Suite 204 > > Berkeley CA 94710 > > phone 510.549.5938 > > fax 510.549.5939 > > www.apress.com > > Visit our online catalog today! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dclug mailing list > > dclug at tux.org > > http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/dclug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
