Re: [NTLK] PDF Converter

From: eschneck_at_mindspring.com
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 14:16:22 EST


>From: Peter H=2E Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells=2Ecom)
>Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 13:35:43 EST=20

>> 2=3D2E Create a simple RTF to go into Newton Press=20
>> This assumes that we can work around NP's general flakiness=3D2E=20

>2 is likely to be easiest=2E There's existing tools to make pdfs to ascii=
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>and extracting part of the formatting should be convertable to rtf=2E=20

I don't want to do an extract to ASCII, because most PDF's that contain
tables, especially rotated tables (e=2Eg=2E train timetables) come out as
garbage when you do that=2E I want to render to an image file so that the
appearance of the page is preserved=2E

Eric

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