On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:59:02 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 15:20, Donald D Henson wrote:
Does anyone know of an open source application that will convert PDF into something more useful.
Can you characterize "more useful?"
PDF can be converted to PostScript, obviously, which could be considered to have more utility. And it can clearly be converted to, say, HP PCL, since that happens whenever printing to a printer that uses that language.
Anyway, I don't think there are many other formats that really do what PDF does, so I can't think of a useful conversion.
Why do you want to convert from PDF to something else (something non-specific)?
Any leads appreciated.
Randall Schulz
I have a client who publishes a weekly newspaper. He wants to put all but the current edition online. The software he uses to publish the paper has only pdf output. He's been posting the pdf files directly but the paper is growing and the delay between when a user clicks the button and something shows up on the screen is becoming bothersome to his readers. I figure that if we can convert the pdf to html, we can play all sorts of games to make the display show up faster.
I seem to recall there was an experimental plugin for OpenOffice that would import PDFs so they could be edited. Last I heard, I don't know it was complete, but might be worth a look since OO can produce HTML output. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org