pdf edit again.

[Mike Jeays]

On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote:
> 	A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF
> 	files.  Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never
> 	thought I would need to edit a GUI file.  I just found a book
> 	from 1883 in pdf format.  I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1
> 	version.  Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work.   Nutshell: is
> 	there something I can use  to edit/look-at this book and get rid
> 	of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail.  (sorry for
> 	the grammar.... )
>
> 	gary

Try gv and xpdf.  You might get lucky. 

Otherwise - try od :-)




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