Re: I need a tool to manipulate a large pdf file

2014-01-05 Thread herbert langhans
From: Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com [140105 03:12] Hello, I have a book in the form of a large pdf file (over 500 pages) which I would like to convert into many plain text files, to be used on a cheap portable mp3/mp4 reader. The pdf was not scanned, it's

Re: I need a tool to manipulate a large pdf file

2014-01-05 Thread herbert langhans
From: Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com [140105 10:12] On 5 January 2014 08:08, herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl wrote: For such cases I just convert the files with pdftotext. If its just a single book it should not be a huge effort to split the resulting file

Re: I need a tool to manipulate a large pdf file

2014-01-05 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 5 January 2014 08:08, herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl wrote: For such cases I just convert the files with pdftotext. If its just a single book it should not be a huge effort to split the resulting file into one textfile a chapter - I would simply use a text editor. Thanks Herbert,

Re: Printing from browser

2014-01-05 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 5 January 2014 17:54, f...@freddyfisker.dk wrote: I have problems when printing from the Nightly browser. The characters become unreadable. Also if I print to pdf or postscript files. Have you tried in -safe-mode ? And what if you create a brand new profile? And is it the latest firefox

pmake/NetBSD make sources for Linux?

2014-01-05 Thread Malcolm Herbert
I've got a set of tools and management bits and pieces I've been using quite successfully under NetBSD but I'm having trouble migrating these to a Linux environment. I had an abortive attempt at converting these to use GNU make but found this to be too much pain ... unfortunately there seems to

Re: pmake/NetBSD make sources for Linux?

2014-01-05 Thread Malcolm Herbert
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:36:34PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: |Alternatively, are there reasonably current stand-alone versions of |pmake to be had that would compile under Linux that someone can point |me at[3]? I've had a second attempt at trying to do this with the pkgsrc bootstrap and

Re: Printing from browser

2014-01-05 Thread ff
I have tried to run the browser from the terminal with the command firefox -safe-mode and tried to delete the ~/.mozilla directory. Older versions of Firefox have I also tried, but the result with printing is still the same. Best regards Freddy Fisker On 5 January 2014 17:54,