On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:13 -0700, der.hans wrote: > I wanted to look at the binary content for a pdf, so I lessed it. I got > the text of the pdf. Hmm, type $file.pdf claimed it's pdf. > > cat $file.pdf | less showed it to be pdf. > > Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :). > > I verified this works on Ubuntu 6.06 ( others verified more recent > releases ) and debian stable.
For working with PDFs I find pdftk invaluable. If you want to make the
binary more PostScript like you can do:
pdftk myfile.pdf output - uncompress
And get something that can make some sense. You can also fill out
forms, split PDFs and put PDFs together with it. Very cool.
--Ted
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