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. --j
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