pdftotext problems on FC1

[Bob Marcan]

Alexandre Strube wrote:
> Em Qua, 2004-01-14 às 18:04, Lorenzo Prince escreveu:
> 
>>I have a pdf document on a CD that I am trying to convert to plain text.  I have
>>a RH9 machine and a FC1 machine.  I am using the pdftotext command to try to
>>do this.  On the RH box it works great.  I get a nice stream of text.  However,
>>on the FC1 box I get an error message that says that copying text from the
>>document is not allowed.  WTF has happened to this program?  Am I doing
>>something wrong?  Someone please help!!
> 
> 
> There are some pdf files which are protected - pdftotext cannot do
> anything about it.
> 

Workaround:

acroread: print to file (PS level1)
ps2ascii

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