Witek answered Sam:
>> What I am looking for is an outright simple converter
>> program for DOS. Any ideas?
>There is pdftotext for Linux in xpdf package.
>You can port it for DOS if you need it.
Not everyone can recompile programs. Besides, it seems you need to have
LFNs to get the compilation to work, I've already tried.
Anyway, it was a good idea. But, the list (especially Glenn and Clarence)
have you not listened at me at all? Here I am spending a few days away from
the computer with my girlfriend and what happens, everything gets
complicated for such an easy task. The answer to Sams question should be:
1. Change the line in mime.cfg back for PDF documents being downloaded (is
it application/pdf, I can't remember) back to only "PDF" (instead of
"$epdftotex.exe" etc.)
2. Use XPDFs pdftotex.exe if you only need the text. You (Sam) have it at
the main Arachne directory since this was what I based the pdf2txt package on.
And in another mail you wanted | / - \ to change to indicate progress, this
isn't normal for programs in the UN*X world since it isn't suitable for
telnet use and it slows things down, it would also be unpractical for
Arachne. However I must say that pdftotex.exe seems very slow, I've tried a
few not so large documents on my machine which probably has a lot more
"power" than most DOS users, and it kind of annoyed me that it took several
seconds, even half a minute on some occasion.
//Bernie
