1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all Is there any program which can convert PDF to word processor file ? If the PDF has smart quotes, bullet icons, copyright and trademark symbols, etc. what happens to them intext format? So ideally would like to conver into rtf or doc. Thanks SS (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi - go easy on me, i'm new to UNIX... i need to resample huge pdf files and make them smaller. distiller won't resize existing pdf files. i thought i could print the pdf to a postscript file and then resample that. would that work? if so, how? is this the best way forward or should... (1 Reply)

3. HP-UX

We're looking for a program that can convert Text and PCL formats into a PDF. We're not looking to spend a fortune so my search so far has come up empty handed as everyone wants an arm and a leg. I found txt2pdf, but that doesn't support PCL formats. Any help would be appreciated. TIA (2 Replies)

4. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Does anyone know any good tools to convert a pdf to word, I can usually cut & paste without a hitch but I have a pdf that doesn't like that and surrounds text with lines as though a table or prints tables in miniscule text. It's only one pdf file so I'm reluctant to buy a product. (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i don't know anything about PERL. Can anyone help me providing PERL scripts for 1. converting XLS to CSV (and vice-versa) 2. converting DOC/RTF to TXT Thanks much Prvn (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I currently have a driver located in /etc/cups/interfaces that does the following: job="$1" user="$2" title="$3" numcopies="$4" options="$5" filename="$6" # Set up printer default modes echo -e "\033E\c" echo -e "\033)0B\c" cat "$filename" So then I want to do something... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to convert html to pdf using perl module PDF::FromHTML, am getting the error as given below. not well-formed (invalid token) at line 2, column 17, byte 56 at C:/Perl/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187 at C:/Perl/site/lib/PDF/FromHTML.pm line 140 The perl code is as given... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi and good day, In Terminal I tried mv *.rtf.rtf *.rtf to get rid of double rtf extensions ( which came about from some other process), but this doesn't work. I don't know why. Also it should be for the main and for subfolders. with -R? Anyway, any assistance would be greatly... (6 Replies)

9. Red Hat

Hello friends, I need to convert ASCII text to PDF on RHEL 6 so I did the below and could generate PDF but it has lot of junk/special characters. yum install enscript ghostscript enscript -p output.ps input.txt ps2pdf output.ps output.pdf So I download latest source of Ghostscript... (4 Replies)

10. Solaris

Hello Unix gurus, I am learning unix. I have lots pdf data files. I need to convert them into txt files. Can you please guide me how to do that? Thanks in advance. Rao (1 Reply)