Re: Bug in acroread?
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:11:36 -0400
Juergen Fiedler <juergen@fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:39 -0400
> > Juergen Fiedler <juergen@fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > For documents on the web I have this inelegant and heinous trick: I
> > > google for them. If a doc is in PDF format, Google will give you the
> > > option to view it as HTML. The converted version is not always pretty,
> > > but more often than not sufficient to get the information I need.
> > > Obviously doesn't work all the time, but it has helped me out
> > > occasionally.
> >
> > Why not just use a software pdf to text / html / whatever converter,
> > such as pdftotext (in xpdf-utils)?
> >
> > Celejar
>
> I typically only use Google on computers that don't belong to me and
> that don't have a PDF reader installed - and most of those don't have
> xpdf-utils installed, either.
Of course. I also use google's "view as HTML" in such situations;
waiting for Acrobat (plus its boatload of default plugins) to load can
be agonizing, especially on an older machine.
Celejar
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