Denis Beauregard wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:35:37 -0500, "T.M. Sommers" <tms@nj.net> wrote > in soc.genealogy.computing: > >> Denis Beauregard wrote: >>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:12:28 -0500, "T.M. Sommers" <tms@nj.net> wrote >>> in soc.genealogy.computing: >>> >>>> Are you able to modify the file in kPDF? What are the document's >>>> security settings? >>> kPDF is a viewer. >> Ah. My KDE installation is so old it doesn't have kPDF. It uses >> KGhostView to view PDFs, so I assumed that kPDF was a writer. >> >>> Since I **print** to a file, I don't see why the >>> settings would follow... >> I was thinking that it could be that the security settings are >> put in a comment in the ps file, and that the ps2pdf program >> respects them. Assuming that the security settings are the cause >> of your problem. > > Indeed, the ps file forwarding the settings makes sense and is a > good explanation to my problem. It is a shame that my version of > Acroread is 4 versions too old so that the Adobe site is of no > help to understand what the error message means. While reading > a google PDF file, I get often the error 9, which is also something > I don't understand. In both kPDF and the native PDF reader of > Konqueror, I can read those files with no error message and I > presume any PDF reader not from Adobe would do the same. > > Fortunately, I found an alternative mean to keep the images > I need, i.e. irfanview and the image capture. What I want is > a mean to copy data to my database... > > > Denis > The Foxit Reader I mentioned ealrier (which runs under Win98) will allow you to copy information as text for pasting in your database. The pdf995 tools will allow you to convert it the whole document to text, DOC, HTML