Re: problems with pdftotext

I thought Jim was still using Breezy. Also, the language we picked to spoof
was Mongolian as I recall (we substituted the Dapper Kazakh file for it).

CK

(looking into the matter as we speak :)

On 6/27/06, Kurtis Peterson <kleedrac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong Jim but didn't you and Conrad have to use a
> different unicode name to get cyrillic working on your dapper install? Just
> my humble observation as I have no real advice having never had a need to
> convert that direction :)
>
>
> On 6/27/06, jimw <jpw@sasktel.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ubuntu includes a nice little utility, pdftotext, which can, indeed,
> > change a pdf to text. One rather long pdf went very nicely into text,
> > though some of the spacing leaves a great deal to be desired.
> >
> > On thew other hand, attempting to do the same thing with a text done in
> > the Cyrillic alphabet produces a file containing nothing but the
> > punctuation. it's necessary to use the -enc option to turn it to
> > cyrillic, but the result I get is this:
> >
> > /Desktop/Zash$ pdftotext -enc cyrillic ./zash1.pdf
> > Error: Couldn't find unicodeMap file for the 'cyrillic' encoding
> > Error: Couldn't get text encoding
> >
> > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > Anyone care?(:))
> >
> > JimW
> >
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Received on Wed Jun 28 01:29:52 2006