On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:02 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > wrote: >> The method to get xpdf is not nearly that hard (the instructions you >> describe sounds like it was gotten from several sources that didn't >> talk >> to each other). > > But note, the original message says something about "converting pdfs > to > excel spreadsheets". xpdf doesn't do that. (I doubt there's any > program that does.) So if that's the goal, skip fink and go ask > whoever > provided the pdf to send an excel file instead.... > > --b. >
The page the the original poster referenced focused mainly on pdftotext. I'm not sure if further mangling of the resulting text file would be required for one's favorite spreadsheet to open it, though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
