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[Robert Solomon <wogsol AT bestweb.net>]

I've been using xpdf v 2.05b [on slack 9.0, I must admit] and it
works flawlessly for me.  The only thing it wont do is fill-in
forms.  I would be interested to see the .pdf you are having
trouble opening.

Bob

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:

> > 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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