Richmond
2012-07-09 14:30:12 UTC
So, Apache Open Office (as it is now called - Oracle having fobbed it
off) does a reasonably good job of importing a PDF where each separate
entity remains a separate entity (hope you are following me
there), although it screws up quite markedly if it contains embedded
pictures:
http://www.openoffice.org/
LibreOffice seems unable to do this, and I don't know anything at all
about Microsoft Office.
However, it will (or, can) only save the result in bl**dy awkward
formats such as .ODG
that, when imported into Livecode (as text) gives us a textField
calculated to give anyone
an even bigger headache than importing a PDF file directly (as text)
into Livecode.
GIMP can import PDF documents as non-editable images that one can export
into yer bog-standard JPG, PNG and SO-ON formats; but that is not really
much cop for anything.
This:
http://pdf.my-addr.com/free-online-pdf-to-eps-convert.php
will convert PDF files into EPS files, online; but for some funny reason
( Jacques???? ) the
EPS import function in Metacard IDE version 4.1. engine 4.5.0-dp-4 build
1030 crashed when
I attempted to import the resultant EPS into a stack.
Linux people can also have "fun" with their Terminal Emulators with this:
convert ~/file.pdf ~/file.eps where 'file.pdf' is the name of your PDF
you wish to convert
one can also have a reasonable amount of "fun" by installing 'ps2eps'
and having a high old time
with the Terminal Emulator again:
step one: convert PDF to Postscript:
pdf2ps [file].pdf
step two: convert Postscript to EPS:
ps2eps [newfile].ps
one can also b*gg*r around with "pdftops" like this:
pdftops -eps [file].pdf
one can also go "Ha,Ha, Doolally, Bonk" all the way down the main street
with a rubbish bag on one's head.
I have tried aal but the last, so far!
Richmond Mathewson.
P.S. The "Lonesome Yodel" reference; something from my lost youth; check
the guy out:
http://www.hankwangford.co.uk/hanks_page.html
off) does a reasonably good job of importing a PDF where each separate
entity remains a separate entity (hope you are following me
there), although it screws up quite markedly if it contains embedded
pictures:
http://www.openoffice.org/
LibreOffice seems unable to do this, and I don't know anything at all
about Microsoft Office.
However, it will (or, can) only save the result in bl**dy awkward
formats such as .ODG
that, when imported into Livecode (as text) gives us a textField
calculated to give anyone
an even bigger headache than importing a PDF file directly (as text)
into Livecode.
GIMP can import PDF documents as non-editable images that one can export
into yer bog-standard JPG, PNG and SO-ON formats; but that is not really
much cop for anything.
This:
http://pdf.my-addr.com/free-online-pdf-to-eps-convert.php
will convert PDF files into EPS files, online; but for some funny reason
( Jacques???? ) the
EPS import function in Metacard IDE version 4.1. engine 4.5.0-dp-4 build
1030 crashed when
I attempted to import the resultant EPS into a stack.
Linux people can also have "fun" with their Terminal Emulators with this:
convert ~/file.pdf ~/file.eps where 'file.pdf' is the name of your PDF
you wish to convert
one can also have a reasonable amount of "fun" by installing 'ps2eps'
and having a high old time
with the Terminal Emulator again:
step one: convert PDF to Postscript:
pdf2ps [file].pdf
step two: convert Postscript to EPS:
ps2eps [newfile].ps
one can also b*gg*r around with "pdftops" like this:
pdftops -eps [file].pdf
one can also go "Ha,Ha, Doolally, Bonk" all the way down the main street
with a rubbish bag on one's head.
I have tried aal but the last, so far!
Richmond Mathewson.
P.S. The "Lonesome Yodel" reference; something from my lost youth; check
the guy out:
http://www.hankwangford.co.uk/hanks_page.html