On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bo Peng wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:49:53AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > I received a 10 page .pdf contract whose type was literally too small
> > for me to read, either on the screen or on paper. Sure, I could have
> > zoomed the screen, but the horizontal scrolling involved would have
> > guaranteed that I miss some juicy little hold harmless clause or maybe
> > signing over my first born.
>
> Why don't you just copy the text out? Choose 'text select tool' from the
> toolbar of acroread then select, copy and paste (to notepad/word/emacs
> etc). There are ways to retrieve text from pdf files but this should be
> enough for a 10 page document.
Alternative solutions: display in acroread, print to a disk file, convert
the resulting .ps file to .txt with pstotext.
Use the xpdf toolset, specifically, pdftotext to translate the file to
ASCII text.
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
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