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I downloaded and checked out pdftops.  I unzipped on my DOS computer, and
put the binary and half a dozen sample .pdf files on a 1.44 floppy disk,
copied the binary to /bin, ran it from /mnt (floppy disk) which made .ps
files on the floppy disk, and use psview to view them in DOS and they look
just like the files produced by the DOS version of pdftops so this binary
works perfectly.  I have asked Doug what directories to use for the .hlp,
.1, .cat, README, a COPYING files that go with this and I will make a
slackware package of pdftops.  The binary is about 950K, even larger than
pdftotext.  It compresses to about half size.  

I will do something similar with pdfimages since I don't have a pbm/pnm
viewer on my Linux computer or space to install one.  I am now down from
6M to 5M free hard drive.

All three of these programs share the README and COPYING files but they
are smallish.  Should I make one slackware package from all of them, or one
with pdftext and pdfimages and another with pdftops, or three packages?
About 400K each in .zip form, under 1.5M total for a single .tgz package.


On Fri, 30 May 2003 jamtat AT mailsnare.net wrote:

> >
> > Have you had time to check out pdfimage or pdftops?
> >
> Check them out how?  pdftoimage, I would imagine, makes a scanned pdf
> image into a .gif or .jpeg or something.  Is that right?  Then I'd try to
> view it with zgv or something and see if it checks out?  I can sort of
> understand how I'd do something like this.  As for pdftops, I'm at a loss.
> I don't have any printer, let alone a ps printer.  I do use a fake
> postscript printer under M$Win to print .doc files to .ps files so I can
> convert them to .pdf using ps2pdf.  But I don't see how that would allow
> me to check how your friend's pdftops converter is working.  How does one
> go about checking the integrity of a .ps file anyway?  What do I look for?
> Is it enough to just run the program on a file without it returning error
> messages to confirm that it's ok?  I need more instructions.
> 
> James
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