Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do any of you know of a pdf-to-text converter that is better than > pdftotxt? pdftotxt does not preserve line breaks, table formatting, > displayed code, etc. Even the official .txt version of the previous > release of POSIX had many conversion-artifact errors.
xpdf comes with a program named pdftotext that has an option to preserve layout. I haven't used it on the POSIX spec but I've used it successfully with ISO C99 and other specifications. For POSIX, I just read it in a web browser. -- "Unix... is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." --Neal Stephenson