pdf files

[Alex Koponen]

Try http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
or do a Google.com search for GSView Ghostscript

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Adams" <longshot at DARKTECH.ORG>
To: <POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CITG.TUDELFT.NL>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: pdf files


> At 09:04 AM 4/20/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >Ghostscript and GSView are useful free programs for converting pdf files.
> >While they don't do a perfect job, they do an adequate job.
> > Once in a great while I need to cut and paste from some pdf file, so I
> >use GSView to convert it to text where I can copy. Hope this hint is
> >helpful.
> >
>
> Well after a quick web search on the 3rd try I found a site I could just
> email the entire pdf and it returned a text version.  Used it once nad not
> done the other pdfs I have.  Its not a great format.  The other sites
> wanted info and all this jazz I didn't want to fill in.
>
> Got urls for those sites?  I hear ghostscript is used alot by folks.
>
> Longshot - ZC of AdventureNet International Echomail Network