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> keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> > The Linux pdftops as compiled by Doug Kaufman did not work
> > for me on at least half of the files I tried it on.
> > The DOS version works.  I will make a note of your suggestion
> > and try it on that file with long pages.
> 
> I tried some time ago to compile xpdf 2.01 on old Slack 3.9 system.
> Everything seemed to work OK, except PDF 1.4 files :(
> I still don't know why it couldn't recognize them.

I don't know how to tell if a file is pdf 1.4 or not.
I have pretty much given up on xpdf except for files that are mostly text.
 
> So I use pdftops for brr... win32.
> 
> > This sounds like maybe more than I am capable of but I will try it.
> > I don't think I have pstops or pstopdf.
> 
> You should have ps2pdf :) It's a script in your Ghostscript distro.

I will look.

> 
> pstops - you may not have it because it's rather popular
> with TeXLive distros.
> 
> > pdfimage (from xpdf) does not work for me much of the
> > time - I get only pieces of the image instead of a whole image.
> 
> Also DOS version? Have you tried the latest 2.02pl2 ?

What is that?  My DOS pdfimage was compiled by Doug Kaufmann.

> 
> 
> Chris
> 
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