"aj" wrote:
>As I am using DOS only on my PC I ran the two files through PDFTOTEX. The
>results were not bad but _all_ dates and figures were replaced by spaces!
Perhaps you should contact the author of pdftotex?
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ probably has the address.
>I had a look at the books in Adobe Acrobat on a Windows machine at work and
>cannot see anything odd about the figures 0-9. Why would PDFTOTEX not
>translate these ASCII characters? A book by a historian, even one by David
>Irving, which has no dates or statistics visible, is not much good to
>anyone.
Let's not get into the debate of this, so called, "historian".
I would think the reason is that the numbers are not the regular 0-9 but
some other thing. You could always download the complete xpdf package from
the mentioned site and try pdfimage (IIRC that's the name) if you suspect
that there are any images in the PDF file.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
