Re: making PDFs workable

2012-09-12 Thread JD Austin
Haven't tried this but you can probably use cuneiform, and exactimage to create text searchable PDFs from image only PDFs and Tiffs; you can do it via a live cd: http://www.watchocr.com/ On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.netwrote: As noted earlier, none of

Re: making PDFs workable

2012-09-12 Thread James Crawford
As noted earlier, none of this helps if the PDF is just a big image. The PDF referenced below is an image exported from Xara Xtreme Pro (graphics software for Windows), and every test I can run on it indicates is a big image file; no native text to copy. I don't run Adobe reader, it may

Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Dazed_75
Helping a Japanese friend trying to play a DVD her brother in Japan made. It plays in someone else’s all region DVD player We bought her one too and today we tried it with no success. I brought the DVD home with me thinking I might be able to learn something with my Kinux machine. When I put

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Brian Cluff
These appear to be the errors that are keeping you from mounting the DVD. It looks like that drive thinks the DVD is broken. Brian Cluff On 09/12/2012 05:37 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: [ 132.095180] UDF-fs: error (device sr0): udf_read_tagged: read failed, block=2394887184, location=0 [ 132.095185]

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dazed_75 Helping a Japanese friend trying to play a DVD her brother in Japan made. It plays in someone else’s all region DVD player So it's a regular DVD with MPEG-2 video on it? UDF-fs: error (sr0): __udf_read_inode: (ino 1989838) failed UDF-fs: Failed to read VAT inode from the

Re: Linode Sys Admins

2012-09-12 Thread Vimal Shah
Hello, We are looking for a Linode VPS Sys Admin for hire to test our infrastructure for scaling. We have a load balancer in place with two webservers and a database server behind it. We want to thoroughly test it's capabilities before going live. Please forward to anyone you think might

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Dazed_75
Thanks for the replies folks! Derek, this DVD has been tried in 5 players and on 2 computers. The only on that will play it is a 5 year old all region player belonging to the lady's friend somewhere across town. Matt, I do not know what the video encoding is. larry@hammerhead:~$ regionset