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| ManDay | I'd like to remove some content from a page (a 6 megabytes plot which makes the file unusable). I don't know any editor which can do that so I thought I convert the PDF to something readable, remove the chunk in the resulting code and then convert it back. Which device would be best for that? | 05:57.10 |
| | would it be possible at all? I tried PS and the output is just as inreadable as the original PDF | 06:02.34 |
| uebera|| | ManDay: Depends on your PDF editor, I'd say... you can easily let Acrobat do the job for you including the conversion. | 06:28.24 |
| ManDay | uebera||: But I don't have any editor. | 06:29.59 |
| | I don't know any, either. I'm currently compiling Inkscape but I've got little hope that it will do | 06:30.17 |
| | (Also, I'm on Linux) | 06:30.23 |
| uebera|| | I see. (Acrobat 8.x runs flawlessly using wine on Linux, btw) | 06:33.34 |
| ManDay | getting proprietary software to run on anything that is not debian or redhat is always a bit difficult :-/ | 06:39.17 |
| uebera|| | ManDay: The only tip I can give you (unless it's a file you can share) is to have a look at http://de.slideshare.net/ange4771/advanced-pdf-tricks which also provides you with hints on editing PDFs (using tools available on Linux). | 07:01.32 |
| ManDay | i can share the file no prob | 07:10.16 |
| | inkscape just finished compiling, having a go at it | 07:10.24 |
| | uebera||: sorry but what about that slideshare? | 07:10.56 |
| uebera|| | The presentation contains a list of PDF editors/tools (on the last slides) | 07:11.50 |
| ManDay | Ah, ok | 07:13.44 |
| uebera|| | If you /msg me a download URL of the file, I can spare 5 minutes to try to remove the plot | 07:13.54 |
| ManDay | I'll keep that as a last resort. I should get this done myself and be able to do it again in the future. I greatly appreciate the offer! | 07:14.29 |
| | Inkscape loads... kinda slowly... given the page is 6 megabytes in size, not a surprise | 07:15.00 |
| uebera|| | yw | 07:15.26 |
| ManDay | it's started swapping... | 07:16.21 |
| | that's no good sign | 07:16.24 |
| | now it's stopped working and is still confsuming about 3 gigs s | 07:17.24 |
| | uebera||: could you check somewith with acrobat, though? | 08:07.20 |
| uebera|| | sure | 08:07.32 |
| ManDay | I tried to extract fonts from it, trying both GS and the first google result. in both cases I only get Type1 - but according to inkscape there are more fonts in there which I'm missing | 08:07.52 |
| rayjj | ManDay: left before I could recommend: mutual clean -d in.pda out.pda | 16:00.34 |
| | stoopid auto complete. mutool clean -d in.pdf out.pdf | 16:01.39 |
| | then just edit the contents to remove the part you don't like/want and run mutual clean out.pdf New.pdf | 16:03.36 |
| | or ps2pdf out.pdf new.pda | 16:04.49 |
| | the latter is a script that uses gs | 16:05.26 |
| | I need to turn off the auto complete. | 16:06.58 |
| sebras | tor8: for the logs -- http://epubtest.org/testsuite you already know about this one, right..? | 22:12.12 |
| | tor8: and this one for epub2 https://code.google.com/p/epub-conform/ | 22:13.00 |
| | tor8: seems like there might be one or two that needs looking into in the latter one (run svn, cd into Scripts run "perl implodeall.pl ../Tests" and then find all the .epubs in ../Tests) | 22:21.39 |
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