> UPS is so annoying. The UPS developer's guide is in a 9MB PDF file. When > I open it with xpdf(1) I get a (1) page PDF that states I need to > download the the latest Adobe crapware to view it. > > How can I get around this? Why does xpdf even abide? > > I tried the following gs(1) command hoping it would convert it, but > failed with an unrecoverable error (I can paste the error output here if > someone thinks it will be helpful): > > gs -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf > guide.pdf > > I also tried without the options, NOPAUSE, etc. > > Any suggestions? >
This happens when there are multiple PDFs embedded in a single PDF file. I remember reading a Ghostscript bug about this (could probably find it again if I had the exact error message), but unfortunately Mupdf still doesn't support it. Standard Adobe Reader lets you view but not extract, even. I had to go to a computer lab and use Acrobat on a Mac to pull out the individual files. It's probably not a hard problem to solve, but I don't know of any open-source programs that do this yet. -- Anthony J. Bentley b>
