On Wednesday 27 November 2002 11:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > 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
These are both great suggestions, but what I'm really trying to do is retain at least some of the formatting while raising the font size. The reason I want to retain the formatting is so the "Sacrifice of first born son" heading remains obviously over the text indicating my gift of my first born. I think I can get the thing into Postscript with the pdf2ps command. If there's a way I could go into the .ps file, with VI, to change the font size and margins, I've got it made. Thanks Steve
