On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > For those that didn't play diplomacy due to not knowing the rules, > Hasbro put them on-line. The bad side of this is that they used the > horrible PDF format: > > http://www.hasbro.com/instruct/Diplomacy.PDF
Actually, I think the PDF format is usually pretty good. But this particular PDF file is quite annoying. Creator: Acrobat 4.05 Scan Plug-in for Windows Producer: Acrobat 4.05 Scan Plug-in for Windows CreationDate: 20010516102118-04'00' ModDate: 20010516102235-04'00' Pages: 24 Encrypted: no It appears that someone simply scanned in the manual (they didn't even get it straight on the scanner) rather than starting with the original source file, none of the standard conversion tools (ps2ascii, pdftotext, pstoedit) are able to deal with this particular PDF file. About the only thing that can be done with it is pdfimages, and then you end up with 24 bitmaps, still not terribly useful. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
