Hi Alex, Multivalent PDF Tools (http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/Tools/) includes a utility to uncompress pdf's for hand editing. I haven't used it, no idea how well it works. Might be worth trying.
Regards, Steve On Friday 05 December 2003 02:38 pm, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > This is not scribus related. I just thought that among the many > knowledgeable people on this list someone should be able to suggest a > solution to the following problem. Some pdfs of the scientific articles > that I am annotating seem to be broken. I can't either select text or > convert the pdfs to text. I tried latest xpdf and acroread and the usual > pdftotext and pdf2ps, then ps2ascii. Nothing works. I checked "Document > security" and there were no restrictions on copying text in those pdfs. > It is really irritating to have to retype abstracts when I could just > copy/paste. I'm really looking for a Linux solution, of course, as you > have already guessed from the description of tools I tried to use. > > Regards, > > Alex. > > -- > The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. > -- Chaucer > Life's not fair, but the root password helps. > -- BOFH -- Steve Jacobs Steve Jacobs & Associates Trinidad, Colorado US
