On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 17:27 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> This is really not a use case that AbiWord is meant to support. Please
> check into poppler or xpdf. They offer a command line program called
> "pdftotext" and "pdftohtml" that will do what you need to do.
Hmm, we used to be able to call pdftotext automatically from within
abiword. You did need to compile the PDF plugin for that. Something like
--enable-plugins="command pdf" should work.
Cheers!
Marc
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Gries <mail@tgries.de> wrote:
> > (cross-posted to abiword-user and abiword-dev)
> >
> > Recently I filed http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13167 .
> > It has relevance to a problem with Etherpad-Lite
> > https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/issues/194
> > which I try to solve - I am working with the Etherpad-Lite developers.
> >
> > In this mail I only refer to Abiword command line use,
> > and only to Abiwords convert functions.
> >
> > I have three installation on different servers,
> > but two of the three installations have the
> >
> > Problem:
> > ========
> > Abiword does _not_ correctly convert PDF to TEXT:
> > it shows the PDF file's bytes instead.
> >
> > abiword --plugin=AbiCommand
> > Abiword>convert x.pdf x.txt txt
> >
> > x.txt shows the PDF file in bytes, instead the extracted text.
> >
> > This happens on two of three of my installation running SLES-11 and OpenSuse
> > 11.3 in a headless server environment (virtual machines, hosted servers).
> >
> > The version on OpenSuse 11.4 is working correctly and converts the text
> > from the PDF file on the command line as expected.
> >
> >
> > And perhaps, can you give a detailed explanation on your wiki page
> > http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Compiling_AbiWord how to exactly
> >
> > - "configure/make/make install" Abiword
> >
> > - for a headless server environment
> > - without GUI
> > - with AbiCommand and all the nice import/export support ?
> >
> > See also my http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13162#c2 .
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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