>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Jermey <[email protected]> writes:
Jon> OK, I've Googled this one till my brain hurts and got Jon> nothing... time to seek the higher wisdom. Jon> I get large PDF files from publishers to index, which I do by Jon> running them through a few bash scripts and then working with the Jon> printed output. I have found a way to do everything via bash, but Jon> lately the file sizes are getting bigger and bigger (the latest Jon> was over 500Mb!) and it takes forever to open and print these -- Jon> not to mention paging through them if I need to find something. If you only want the text you can convert the PDF to plain ASCII using pdftotext from the poppler-utils suite. PeterC -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
