X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: From: Mike Marchywka To: Subject: RE: pdf tools follow up question Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 07:56:06 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam ---------------------------------------- > From: marchywka@hotmail.com > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: pdf tools follow up question > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:13:11 -0500 > > > > After playing with pdftk briefly it looks like it will be > suitable and the man pages provide > links to follow information ( someone have better suggestions?), > > > pdftk uses a slightly modified iText Java library > (http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) to read and write PDF. The author comp= iled this Java library using GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org) so it could be linked= with a front end written in C++. > The pdftk home page is http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. > AUTHOR > Sid Steward (ssteward@accesspdf.com) maintains pdftk. > > > > I did want to affirm my earlier IIRC comments. > > If you go get this document, > > wget -O 541.pdf -S -v "http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p541.pdf" > > and try to select a column of text, you end up with a column the > width of the whole page making it impossible > to get a single coherent piece of text ( worse than > top posting ). I had a reprint from a science journal and > checked that with same "Reader 9" software you could > select individual columns. > After playing around with Acrobat Reader 9, it actually seems to work most of the time and not go into infinite loops or otherwise hang like 7 seemed to do a lot.=20 Second, it has a "save as text" option that apparently handles the columns correctly. I finally did get pdftotext to work as I must have had the -layout option turned on as other poster suggested but I thought I had checked that... In any case that much seems ok so if I can just get form data in and out of the fillable forms I should be ok. Thanks. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live=99: Life without walls. > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99 Groups: Create an online spot for your favorite groups to m= eet. http://windowslive.com/online/groups?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_groups_032009 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/