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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
> > There are about 11 lines to be filled in by hand, and it has at
> > least 11 extra line feeds at the beginning.  Perhaps I could
> > somehow convert to ps and edit them out?
>
> Is this what you had in mind?
>
> http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/g_src/pdf2ps/pdf2ps.html
Yes, I found pdf2ps in the ghostscript package (it is a little script 
based on gs itself) and also a pdftops (a large executable) in xdpf.
But I have no idea how to edit the ps file to remove the extraneous lines.


I just found a simple solution based on your suggestion, sort of -
use xpdf's pdftops, which produces a .ps file that gs displays correctly.
I did not test if the gs script also produced correct output (unlikely 
since it is based on gs).

Thanks a lot.  Some day gs will get this right (by which time Adobe will 
have introduced something else to make life difficult).


> David
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