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A great movie!!!

2011-02-13

Egypt’s army must now continue down Mubarak’s path – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

2011-02-13

xpdf: Error (…): Missing ‘endstream’

There are a few PDF documents around here, that I can read with Acrobat Reader w/o problems, but xpdf and its companions moan. I guess, that’s because they got modified and a little destroyed using Acrobat X Pro.

I used pdftk to get rid of that problem: first output/uncompress, than output/compress again:

$ pdftk x.pdf output
x.uncompressed.pdf uncompress
$ pdftk x.uncompressed.pdf output
x.recompressed.pdf compress

2011-02-10

“pdftohtml” vs. DRM

A project of mine involves extracting strings and other details from PDF files using “pdftohtml -xml“.

A plain “pdftohtml -xml” refuses to read PDF files with set copy-protection bits set. But if you add “-nodrm” on the command line, it reads them anyway, but it mentions the problem on STDERR.

2011-02-08