On 08/30/2014 03:19 PM, upscope wrote:
On Friday, August 29, 2014 07:17:49 PM Doug wrote:
On 08/29/2014 04:43 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-08-29 18:48, Doug wrote:
On 08/29/2014 07:28 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Foxit for Linux is obsolete and unmaintained: it is abandonware (version 1). You have to use the Windows version under Wine instead (I have version 6). It figures. Anything that works gets discontinued! I don't care if it's not maintained. That's surely an advantage--it won't get broken! I'll make sure to install it on all my computers while it's still in my repos. Don't. I sort of thought this thread was dead. There are some edits that need to be done:
I found that Windows Foxit will run under Wine, in 32- and 64-bit, so that's what I'm running. I registered it.so hopefully if there is an update, they'll let me know. As I mentioned before, it doesn't matter too much if it has some security problems, since it's the only game in town. I've tried all the Linux versions that were available on my distro, and none of the others allow me to make a file that can be more-or-less easily edited on a standard word processor. For my purposes I don't care what it does to images. The download site that I found for the Windows version of Foxit is their site, and it has no spam or obvious viruses on it. and not conduit, virus or no www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/ It still saves the PDF text to a file with $ signs between the words,but a word processor-- Libre, for instance--can do a find/replace and get rid of them, replacing every $ with a space. I'm done with this topic. I spent a good part of last Saturday converting a PDF to an editable text by OCR and a LOT of corrections, so i started looking for a better solution. The above is my solution. Others may find something they like better, but this is where I'm staying. --doug
http://en.opensuse.org/Adobe_Reader
«has security issues»
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/11/foxit_pdf_plugin_vuln/
«A new security bug in the popular Foxit PDF reader plugin for web browsers allows miscreants to compromise computers and install malware. There's no patch for this zero-day vulnerability. ... Versions 5.4.4.1128 and older are affected. The plugin is available for a number of operating systems, including Linux and Symbian, but the bug is at least confirmed in the Microsoft Windows build.»
Just a quick search. I have found lists of Foxit vulnerabilities in Windows, patched, but the Linux version has never been updated..
Apparently you have to use the "custom" install, and make sure to uncheck "conduit". The version I have in wine is a bit older than this crap described in those links. Yes, make sure you uncheck conduit. It's a virus, even tho the virus people won't admit it. Not fully true.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a159d4c2c7739a7b23f5e09b8c94c5863 1d18db68962aeedb994a99fbc91ff38/analysis/
Apparently Malwarebytes blocks installation of Foxit.
The technical term appears to be "PUPs".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware#Grayware Have you tried the command line command "pdftotext" Works great on my pdfs that are text only, have not tried one with graphics but the following also exist:
AUTHOR The pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1)
Above are from the pdftotext ,am page.
What I do is convert to text file (.txt), then read into Libreoffice writer, make changes and then save as different name pdf. The pdfto image creates a pdf file to an image which can then be modified with your graphics application I think.
Russ
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