From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 24169 invoked from network); 9 Jul 1998 13:03:28 -0000 Received: from europe.std.com (199.172.62.20) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 1998 13:03:28 -0000 Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (8.7.6/BZS-8-1.0) id JAA16466; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:03:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by world.std.com (TheWorld/Spike-2.0) id AA21133; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:03:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:03:12 -0400 From: lark@world.std.com (Lar Kaufman) Message-Id: <199807091303.AA21133@world.std.com> To: blinux-list@redhat.com, blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: File conversion question References: List-Id: Aladdin ghostscript converts pdf and postscript to a multitude of output forms, including plain or formatted text. It's powerful and complex, however. It is a lot easier to use pstoedit as a front-end (and pstoedit can also manage other modules for additional conversions). There is one nasty PDF trick that is sometimes used online--a decryption key is added to the PDF file. Ghostscript can also process those PDF files, but you have to download the decryption module from a non-U.S. website, because it's export-restricted technology. (Still!) Get ghostscript from . The GNU ghostscript package can't process PDF (or even PostScript level 2) so you need Aladdin's version 4.01 or later. It's been a long time since I checked, but pstoedit should be in usual Linux websites. I'll have to research where to get the decryption module, if you should need it. I'm interested whether anyone is using these tools "on the fly" for netsurfing. If so, could you share info on how to set it up? I have always captured the files and converted them later, but I'm interested in integrating and automating the conversions, preferably from within emacs. -lar Lar Kaufman | "It's bad enough to see yourself as the world is seeing Polymedia Services | you now. To see yourself as the world saw you in the Concord, Mass. | immediate past is to see yourself tantalizingly beyond lark@walden.com | any hope of redemption." - Roy Blount Jr.