On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:25:58 +0100, marc <nomail@be.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: >Denis Beauregard wrote: > >> It is relatively easy to take a document and to print it to a PDF >> file. For example, I can read a text file and print it with >> LibreOffice. > > >There are cmds in linux that will: > >- make a jpg of every single page >OR >- extract images and construct eg a html with text around it. > >eg pdftohtml -c -p -dev jpeg Unfortunately, my Linux is somewhat outdated (2006) and has only pdftotext and pdftops. There is a bug in the configuration that is stopping updates (2 rules are not coherent and I am not enough familiar with Linux to change the files. I have an old Debian Linux. I tried to install a Kubuntu release but it doesn't detect the disk of my portable computer so that I can't refresh the Linux in it and it is my only Linux machine. >but, > >If you have ImageMagick it's easy as > >convert file.pdf file.jpg The ImageMagick I have (for Windows 7) can't read my PDF file. Perhaps I should update it. >http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-convert-pdf- >to-jpg-910611/ > >Online pdf to jpg: the cloud works for free: >http://pdf2jpg.net/ Files limited to 25 MB. Mine has 109 MB. But thanks to LibreOffice, I reduced it to the site limitation. However, the file I sent couldn't be converted. "An error occured. Please check that your PDF is valid and retry.". Anyway, I can read pages one by one and edit them from LibreOffice so I have something to do the job. Thanks anyway. Denis -- Denis Beauregard - généalogiste émérite (FQSG) Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/ French in North America before 1722 - www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/ Sur cédérom à 1780 - On CD-ROM to 1780

On 11/22/2012 10:02 PM, Denis Beauregard wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:25:58 +0100, marc <nomail@be.com> wrote in > soc.genealogy.computing: > >> Denis Beauregard wrote: >> >>> It is relatively easy to take a document and to print it to a PDF >>> file. For example, I can read a text file and print it with >>> LibreOffice. >> >> >> There are cmds in linux that will: >> >> - make a jpg of every single page >> OR >> - extract images and construct eg a html with text around it. >> >> eg pdftohtml -c -p -dev jpeg > > Unfortunately, my Linux is somewhat outdated (2006) and has only > pdftotext and pdftops. There is a bug in the configuration that is > stopping updates (2 rules are not coherent and I am not enough > familiar with Linux to change the files. I have an old Debian Linux. > I tried to install a Kubuntu release but it doesn't detect the disk > of my portable computer so that I can't refresh the Linux in it and > it is my only Linux machine. > >> but, >> >> If you have ImageMagick it's easy as >> >> convert file.pdf file.jpg > > The ImageMagick I have (for Windows 7) can't read my PDF file. Perhaps > I should update it. > >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-convert-pdf- >> to-jpg-910611/ >> >> Online pdf to jpg: the cloud works for free: >> http://pdf2jpg.net/ > > Files limited to 25 MB. Mine has 109 MB. But thanks to LibreOffice, I > reduced it to the site limitation. However, the file I sent couldn't > be converted. "An error occured. Please check that your PDF is valid > and retry.". Anyway, I can read pages one by one and edit them from > LibreOffice so I have something to do the job. > > > Thanks anyway. > > > Denis > Dennis, As I have indicated before, PDF-XChange Viewer will do what you need and it is free. You should give it a try. I have found it to be a valuable addition to my PDF arsenal. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm

Denis Beauregard wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:25:58 +0100, marc <nomail@be.com> wrote in > soc.genealogy.computing: > >>Denis Beauregard wrote: >> >>> It is relatively easy to take a document and to print it to a PDF >>> file. For example, I can read a text file and print it with >>> LibreOffice. >> >> >>There are cmds in linux that will: >> >>- make a jpg of every single page >>OR >>- extract images and construct eg a html with text around it. >> >>eg pdftohtml -c -p -dev jpeg > > Unfortunately, my Linux is somewhat outdated (2006) and has only > pdftotext and pdftops. There is a bug in the configuration that is > stopping updates (2 rules are not coherent and I am not enough > familiar with Linux to change the files. I have an old Debian Linux. > I tried to install a Kubuntu release but it doesn't detect the disk > of my portable computer so that I can't refresh the Linux in it and > it is my only Linux machine. > >>but, >> >>If you have ImageMagick it's easy as >> >>convert file.pdf file.jpg > > The ImageMagick I have (for Windows 7) can't read my PDF file. Perhaps > I should update it. > >>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-convert- pdf- >>to-jpg-910611/ >> >>Online pdf to jpg: the cloud works for free: >>http://pdf2jpg.net/ > > Files limited to 25 MB. Mine has 109 MB. But thanks to LibreOffice, I > reduced it to the site limitation. However, the file I sent couldn't > be converted. "An error occured. Please check that your PDF is valid > and retry.". Anyway, I can read pages one by one and edit them from > LibreOffice so I have something to do the job. > > win gui http://guiguy.wminds.com/downloads/pdf2htmlgui/ source code can be compiled, it you find libs/dev pkgs. http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ -- -- What's on Shortwave guide: choose an hour, go! http://shortwave.tk 700+ Radio Stations on SW http://swstations.tk 300+ languages on SW http://radiolanguages.tk