Maura, On Sunday 28 August 2005 03:53, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
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kword allows me to import the PDF file but it is then displayed in some alphabet that looks like Egyptian or Chinese to me. I tried to change the font after selecting some portion of the file but the resul is still unreadable.
I've seen this symptom with certain PDF files even when copying text from Adobe Reader directly to the clipboard. I've never fully diagnosed it, but it seems like it's some kind of encoding mix-up.
Even a tool that translates from PDF to HTML wouled still work for me ...but I do not know where to find it.
Try this: - Open a shell window. - type "pdf" followed immediately by CTRL-ALT-8 (or, more to the point, CTRL-ALT-*) You'll see a list of all the commands in your PATH that begin with "pdf". On my system, that's: % ll $( type -pf pdf2dsc pdf2ps pdfcrop pdfcslatex pdfcsplain pdfetex pdffonts pdfimages pdfinfo pdfjadetex pdflatex pdfopt pdftex pdftk pdftohtml pdftoppm pdftops pdftotext pdfxmltex pdfxtex ) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 518 2005-05-04 14:19 /usr/bin/pdf2dsc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 723 2005-05-04 14:19 /usr/bin/pdf2ps* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2005-04-17 10:48 /usr/bin/pdfcrop -> ../share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux/pdfcrop* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 624 2005-04-20 06:35 /usr/bin/pdfcslatex* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 624 2005-04-20 06:35 /usr/bin/pdfcsplain* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2005-04-20 06:35 /usr/bin/pdfetex -> /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux/pdfetex* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 628052 2005-03-22 10:52 /usr/bin/pdffonts* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 628140 2005-03-22 10:52 /usr/bin/pdfimages* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 629108 2005-03-22 10:52 /usr/bin/pdfinfo* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2005-04-20 06:35 /usr/bin/pdfjadetex -> /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux/pdfjadetex* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 2005-04-20 06:35 /usr/bin/pdflatex -> /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux/pdflatex* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 364 2005-05-04 14:19 /usr/bin/pdfopt* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2005-04-20 06:35 /usr/bin/pdftex -> /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux/pdftex* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2773912 2005-03-19 12:00 /usr/bin/pdftk* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 636396 2005-03-19 11:54 /usr/bin/pdftohtml* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 746884 2005-03-22 10:52 /usr/bin/pdftoppm* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 685164 2005-03-22 10:52 /usr/bin/pdftops* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 670944 2005-03-22 10:52 /usr/bin/pdftotext* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2005-04-20 06:35 /usr/bin/pdfxmltex -> /usr/share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux/pdfxmltex* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2005-04-17 10:48 /usr/bin/pdfxtex -> ../share/texmf/teTeX/bin/i586-linux/pdfxtex* So you see, there are many options, including HTML conversion.
Thank you. Best regards, Maura
Randall Schulz