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RE: pdf tools follow up question




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> From: marchywka@hotmail.com
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: pdf tools follow up question
> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:13:11 -0500
>
>
>
> After playing with pdftk briefly it looks like it will be
> suitable and the man pages provide
> links to follow information ( someone have better suggestions?),
>
>
> pdftk uses a slightly modified iText Java library
> (http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) to read and write PDF. The author compiled this Java library using GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org) so it could be linked with a front end written in C++.
> The pdftk home page is http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/.
> AUTHOR
> Sid Steward (ssteward@accesspdf.com) maintains pdftk.
>
>
>
> I did want to affirm my earlier IIRC comments.
>
> If you go get this document,
>
> wget -O 541.pdf -S -v "http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p541.pdf";
>
> and try to select a column of text, you end up with a column the
> width of the whole page making it impossible
> to get a single coherent piece of text ( worse than
> top posting ). I had a reprint from a science journal and
> checked that with same "Reader 9" software you could
> select individual columns.
>

After playing around with Acrobat Reader 9,  it actually
seems to work most of the time and not go into infinite
loops or otherwise hang like 7 seemed to do a lot. 

Second, it has a "save as text" option that apparently handles
the columns correctly. I finally did get pdftotext to
work as I must have had the -layout option turned on as
other poster suggested but I thought I had checked that...

In any case that much seems ok
so if I can just get form data in and out of the fillable forms
I should be ok.

Thanks.





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