On Oct 31, 4:44 am, john <deo-c...@myamail.com> wrote: > Denis Beauregard wrote: > > Hi: > > > Is it possible to repair a Google ebook downloaded from > > books.google.com ? > > > I run a computer with Windows 98 with an original and paid > > Adobe Acrobat release 5 (I think the current release is 9). > > So I get continuously an error 9 (Acrobat is expensive but > > they forget to hire a good programmer to write the error > > messages at long...). > > > Then I sent one file to a Linux computer, read it with kPDF, > > printed it to a postcript file, converted back the file to > > PDF format using ps2pdf12 and imported it back to the Win 98 > > computer. > > > The file is readable but when I try to change it, I get the > > error 130 (no idea what it is). I tried to remove white pages > > (won't save) or to add some bookmark (won't save). > > > Any hint ? Since I completely rebuilt the file with the > > PDF -> ps -> PDF process, I thought I could do what I want > > with the book (in my case, adding bookmarks and read it from > > Window 98 and Acrobat 5)... > > > Denis > > There are other PDF readers. > > I use the free Foxit Readerhttp://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/ > There are versions for Windows (including Win98) and Linux > > There is other software for converting PDF files e.g. the free PDF995 > suitehttp://www.pdf995.com/which will extract text, DOC or HTML and > has many other functions. SOURCEFORGE.NET has tons of great pdf manipulators for different purposes for linux and windows. some great tools. i found one that even manipulates the rights so you can edit them. Hope this helps http://www.bifano.us