[plug] [OT] PDF Conversions

[Timothy White]

Mark O'Shea wrote:

>
>But you could also use the ready made utilities that you mention to
>convert it to text or postscript.  Now my experience is that if you use
>the utility from xpdf (pdftops) it will create a postscript file with
>the text in it.  I haven't found that it produces images, but of course
>that doesn't mean that it doesn't, just that it never has for me.  Have
>you tried checking the man page to see if you need any extra options for
>your purposes?  The utility which relies on ghostscript (pdf2ps) I have
>found does produce images, and so I probably wouldn't use it for this.
>
>
Ok, my mistake. pdftops does give the correct ps. Unfortunately it still
doesn't help. It appears that the text is still in some obscure format.
I was hoping for something as easy as a regex like s/Text in PDF/New
text for PS/ and being able to modify the ps like that. I had a simple
text document which I converted to ps and I could do this. But these
more complex documents and other PS files I have created from documents,
while retaining text as text, they seem to obscure the text.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Tim
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