David, For some reason I couldn't send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I'm posting to the list.
On Thu Oct 16 2003 at 02:14, "David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I ask you, is it based on some other "pdf to something" tool? > > It's a bit of perl + a bit of system tools, and some other > mojo, yes. It's all a secret family recipe. I'll try to roll a > client-side one that you can use with your Python distiller > (assuming a sane POSIX machine of course) and release that. Ok. Sounds really great. > > Please, don't abandon it. It indeed looks very promising. That's the > > thing that I've dreamt of since I discovered Plucker (unfortunately it > > happened just a couple of weeks ago). > > Ok, I'll see if I can add things as I think of them. It was more > an experiment in "Can I really do this?" than anything else. Not really > meant for production use, but what the heck. =) Yes! ;) > I still have to gut and rewrite the email reflector as well, > so it can handle incoming attached pdf and Microsoft Word documents, > and not just deal with outgoing HTML templates. > > > Should I report problems concerning interpreting pdf to you (e.g. eaten > > spaces in output etc.)? > > Yes, please do. That's what I've tried so far on your site: http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/language/style/style.pdf almost perfect, however most of the section titles is glued with the following text + has some number of "Had trouble resolving dest near weor action type is GoToR". http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/meyer/ongoing/etl/entity.pdf (use Talkitover/etl3 login/password here) same problems as above, however it seems to have much more "Had trouble resolving..." At least some phrases lack spaces too: "19.3 VALUES Wesaw" (instead of "We saw") - but I think there's nothing to do with that - even "Adobe Acrobat Reader 5" doesn't extract text with the space from there - I guess it's a only visual space and nothing else. :( First minute observation: it would be great if it could skip page headers/footers from the output. If you need more info / help / testing I'll be glad to provide more. Regards, Grigory _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
