Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:37:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/6/6 Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>:
> > I think inkscape is by far the best tool for this job, provided that you
> > use version 0.46 (available in Lenny and Sid). It can read PDFs directly
> > and convert their content to fully-editable text blocks, vector graphics
> > or embedded bitmaps (depending on how the individual elements were
> > embedded in the original PDF). It will probably replace the embedded
> > non-standard font with a standard one automatically. You should then be
> > able to change font size, positioning of the text blocks, etc. as if you
> > had created this document yourself with inkscape. If you find that the
> > spacing of the letters is strange then you might have to make use of
> > "Text > Remove Manual Kerns".
> >
>
> Thank you, Inkscape opens the documents in the Tahoma font, which is
> perfectly legible. However, saving back as pdf ruins the letter
> spacing as you mention, yet, removing the manual kerns does not help.
> Also, this only saves the first page of the document.
>
> 1) Is there another way to change the letter spacing? Even selecting
> the entire document and then selecting a specific font did not help
> with letter spacing.
>
> 2) Can Inkscape work with more than a single page? I have 20
> documents, 10 pages on average each, and the test is next week!
If you can extract the graphics to e.g. eps, then extract the text as
text, you could rebuild the whole kit and cabootle with Latex. Yeah, I
know, its the long-way around.
This is the joys of sharing files with a format not intended to be
changed.
Doug.
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