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From: Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt and the blind
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:20:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414172047.36881177@atipa.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1ABA54-8E55-11D8-AE3A-00306544E64E@princeton.edu>

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:50:04 -0400
Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu> wrote:

> So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files
> 
> from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this 
> sort of problem?

I have used the pdftotext utility, part of the xpdf package, for similar
tasks. In the case of hyphenated line endings, the word will be
hyphenated and broken across lines just as in the pdf, and that might be
a problem for the reader program.

-Bill
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-14 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-14 20:50 Alan Bowen
2004-04-14 22:20 ` Bill McClain [this message]
2004-04-15 11:06   ` Erik Hetzner
2004-04-14 23:44 ` Matthew Huggett
2004-04-15 14:00   ` Alan Bowen
2004-04-15 14:24     ` Bill McClain
2004-04-15 15:32 ` Jan Hlavacek
2004-04-15 20:47   ` Hans Hagen

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