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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat create pdf of text file help Post 302574727 by cokedude on Friday 18th of November 2011 07:25:19 AM
Old 11-18-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Yes, 'convert' determines file type from extension, which is how it knows you want an adobe acrobat file just because you told it "whatever.pdf"
Any recommended extensions then? It can't convert rtf or doc, and does a REALLY POOR job of converting txt.
 

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Image::ExifTool::PDF(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Image::ExifTool::PDF(3pm)

NAME
Image::ExifTool::PDF - Read PDF meta information SYNOPSIS
This module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required. DESCRIPTION
This code reads meta information from PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) files. It supports object streams introduced in PDF-1.5 but only with a limited set of Filter and Predictor algorithms, however all standard encryption methods through PDF-1.7 extension level 3 are supported, including AESV2 (AES-128) and AESV3 (AES-256). AUTHOR
Copyright 2003-2011, Phil Harvey (phil at owl.phy.queensu.ca) This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. REFERENCES
<http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html> Crypt::RC4 <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf> <http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/adobe_supplement_iso32000.pdf> <http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc3454> <http://www.armware.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc4013.html> SEE ALSO
"PDF Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames, Image::ExifTool(3pm) perl v5.12.4 2011-03-10 Image::ExifTool::PDF(3pm)
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