Re: Upstream ChangeLog in PDF documentation

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Wild
On 04/07/2011 10:46 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Personally I would do one of the following, in decreasing order of > preference. You might find that whatever the PDF is built from is > easier to convert to plain text than the PDF itself. Check in the > Title/Producer/Creator fields of the PDF for some h

Re: Upstream ChangeLog in PDF documentation

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
Personally I would do one of the following, in decreasing order of preference. You might find that whatever the PDF is built from is easier to convert to plain text than the PDF itself. Check in the Title/Producer/Creator fields of the PDF for some hints on what might be the source code for the PDF

Upstream ChangeLog in PDF documentation

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Wild
Hi all I'm in the process of packaging a library that does not contain a ChangeLog file, but contains that information inside the user-guide which is either available as a PDF or the LaTeX source. Using some scripting (pdftotext, sed, asciidoc, lynx) I can extract a quite reasonable ChangeLog file