I've just spent a couple of hours working on a perl script that will
convert any Adobe PDF document to Plucker format. You can find it on the top
article of the Plucker website now. Right now, it's web-based popup gadget
(yes, a Javascript popup, ugh), until I can stick it on a better version of a
tools page on the site (I have a few other perl scripts here which allows
picking from linuxdoc, ibiblio, the RFC archives, etc. and convert those to
Plucker also, but I want to aggregate all these tools onto one page at some
point).
Test it out and let me know what you think. If it breaks, give me the
error messages (if any) or email me the pdb directly, so I can take a look at
what may have failed. I did my best to try to validate urls against bad
strings and other file formats being put in there. There's no actual header
logic being parsed at this point, so if you name an mp3 as a .pdf, expect
weird stuff to happen.
As I add these tools and begin the transition of these sites (and
servers supporting it) to a larger pipe, the response time will increase
considerably. Right now, we're getting hit pretty hard with cvs checkouts and
people downloading Plucker and pilot-link from the same box at the rate of
about 100/hour. This script, even though it launches perl server-side, should
present no problems.
/d
