[Scribus] How to recover/reformat faulty pdfs

[Steve Jacobs]

Hi Alex,

Multivalent PDF Tools (http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/Tools/) 
includes a utility to uncompress pdf's for hand editing. I haven't used it, 
no idea how well it works. Might be worth trying.

Regards,

Steve

On Friday 05 December 2003 02:38 pm, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> This is not scribus related. I just thought that among the many
> knowledgeable people on this list someone should be able to suggest a
> solution to the following problem. Some pdfs of the scientific articles
> that I am annotating seem to be broken. I can't either select text or
> convert the pdfs to text. I tried latest xpdf and acroread and the usual
> pdftotext and pdf2ps, then ps2ascii. Nothing works. I checked "Document
> security" and there were no restrictions on copying text in those pdfs.
> It is really irritating to have to retype abstracts when I could just
> copy/paste. I'm really looking for a Linux solution, of course, as you
> have already guessed from the description of tools I tried to use.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex.
>
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