If you get that work I'd like to know what packages does that? See, PDF is really just an xy coordinate plane where line art, images and text (also an image) is placed. Given that... it's not like there's an easy way to go right to text. I suppose it'd be possible to do some basic formatting for the text say... =50 spaces>some text =10 spaces> more text... ^Something for page break I've got the Dune series in PDF but it'd be nicer to read them as plain'ol'ASCII. Heck, now that I'm thinking of it this sounds like a program that someone would have written by now. And if it hasn't any competent scripter can use something like perl (I assume python too) with the PDF API and just output the thang that way. (gears churning....) Josh __SIG__ On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Simeon Johnston wrote: > > Are you using Debian? If so install the package gs-pdfencrypt - > > it lets gs decrypt enecrypted pdfs (its probably the patch > > that gs told you about ). If you're not using Debian, see > > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/. The patch looks > > easy to install. > > No. Redhat 6.2. Tried Debian but didn't have time to learn a new > configuration. > This looks like the patch. Does Ghostscript display PDF's without > Xwindows? I would rather not take up the space on my drive to convert them > all. > > sim > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >