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From: Father Merrin on 27 Sep 2005 20:10 nomail(a)nomail.com wrote in news:t2mhj1thos31fulpbq1eoo0hd80hkf1qvp(a)4ax.com: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:24:37 -0700, "Jeff Needle" > <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote: > >>I'm a book reviewer. I received a book with a CD with the text of the >> book enclosed, with the files in PDF format. Great stuff, I don't >>have retype stuff I want to cite in the review. >> >>But Adobe won't let me copy text to the clipboard. I can highlight >>text, but that's it. Ctrl-c doesn't work. I'm guessing the creator >>of the CD set it up so that copying and pasting is not allowed. >> >>Is there a way around this? Maybe a freeware PDF reader that gets >>around the restriction? >> >>Thanks. > Go to site http://www.aboutlyrics.com/Software/Download/pdftotext.php and download "pdftotext". This utility will extract all embedded text in a pdf document to an ASCII/text. From there you will be able to cut-and- paste this text to a word processor or programming editor of your choice. Good Luck, FM
From: Jeff Needle on 27 Sep 2005 23:13 On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:10:54 -0700, Father Merrin <fm(a)provider.com> wrote: > nomail(a)nomail.com wrote in > news:t2mhj1thos31fulpbq1eoo0hd80hkf1qvp(a)4ax.com: > >> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:24:37 -0700, "Jeff Needle" >> <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm a book reviewer. I received a book with a CD with the text of the >>> book enclosed, with the files in PDF format. Great stuff, I don't >>> have retype stuff I want to cite in the review. >>> >>> But Adobe won't let me copy text to the clipboard. I can highlight >>> text, but that's it. Ctrl-c doesn't work. I'm guessing the creator >>> of the CD set it up so that copying and pasting is not allowed. >>> >>> Is there a way around this? Maybe a freeware PDF reader that gets >>> around the restriction? >>> >>> Thanks. >> > > > Go to site http://www.aboutlyrics.com/Software/Download/pdftotext.php > and download "pdftotext". This utility will extract all embedded text in > a pdf document to an ASCII/text. From there you will be able to cut-and- > paste this text to a word processor or programming editor of your choice. > > Good Luck, > FM > Thanks. Looks like it runs in a DOS box. I'll have to fiddle with it to make it work. I appreciate the pointer. -- -------------------------------------- Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle(a)gmail.com
From: Mike Dee on 28 Sep 2005 00:12 "Jeff Needle" <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote in news:op.sxslwbfx3r2ov4(a)d9ns6561: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:10:54 -0700, Father Merrin > <fm(a)provider.com> wrote: >> http://www.aboutlyrics.com/Software/Download/pdftotext.php and >> download "pdftotext". This utility will extract all embedded >> text in a pdf document to an ASCII/text. From there you will be >> able to cut-and- paste this text to a word processor or >> programming editor of your choice. > > > Thanks. Looks like it runs in a DOS box. I'll have to fiddle > with it to make it work. Another method I use, is to print the PDF to a postscript file ".ps" you can set up a dummy printer if you don't have a physical postscript printer such as a HP laserjet etc because you only want to save the postscript output here. Once you have the .ps file made then use a PDF program such as PDFCreator <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/> to turn the ..ps file back into a PDF. The trade-off is you lose URLs and other links from the original PDF but you gain full image and text selecting rights (password protection doesn't get sent to the printer). -- dee
From: Jeff Needle on 28 Sep 2005 00:39 On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:12:31 -0700, Mike Dee <mikedee(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > Another method I use, is to print the PDF to a postscript file ".ps" > you can set up a dummy printer if you don't have a physical postscript > printer such as a HP laserjet etc because you only want to save the > postscript output here. > > Once you have the .ps file made then use a PDF program such as > PDFCreator <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/> to turn the > .ps file back into a PDF. The trade-off is you lose URLs and other > links from the original PDF but you gain full image and text selecting > rights (password protection doesn't get sent to the printer). > Thanks. If I have to, I'll do this. -- -------------------------------------- Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle(a)gmail.com
From: John Corliss on 28 Sep 2005 06:36
Mike Bourke wrote: > Not 100% sure but I think that Open Office will open pdf documents and may > therefore allow copying of text to clipboard. Mike, if memory serves me, OpenOffice.org won't open .pdf files, but it will save to that format. -- Regards from John Corliss My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein and others. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez please. |