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edoc · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 10:39 Post subject:

OK, downloaded and moved the pdfshuffler.sfs to /mnt/home then went to add it to the "Bootmanager configure bootup" menu.

I received this error in a red pop-up:

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 18:33 Post subject:

Good point, we probably should upload an SFS-4 version, and put the new pdfshuffler in while we're at it.

edoc · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 19:06 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 19:27 Post subject:

Ah, sorry.
You must have installed the .deb over the top, like I suggested.
It seems I had to modify /usr/share/applications/pdfshuffler.desktop to replace the "Office" category with "X-DocumentUtility" to make it show up in Puppy's menu. Thanks for the feedback - I'd better amend my post.

edoc · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 19:33 Post subject:

You mean I accomplished something useful ... instead of just breaking things?
Rolling Eyes

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 19:53 Post subject:

I've put a .pet in the first post.
For future reference, I also had to add .png onto the icon name in the .desktop file, for the icon to show up in JWM.

edoc · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 20:46 Post subject:

All good now, thanks!

BTW: Could this be linked to a PDF-to-Text converter?

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 22:35 Post subject:

Do you just mean to put a link in this thread? Or add a feature to Pdfshuffler? Personally I think it would be better to keep the two tasks separate as they are quite distinct. That's the *nix way of doing things, after all Wink

I think there are quite a number of different tools for converting pdf to text or xml or whatever. It is the aspect of working with PDFs that I'm most unfamiliar with; I probably haven't looked at most of the alternatives, and it is a long time since I looked at any of them.
If you want to look at it, here they're doing it using PyPdf (Pdfshuffler's backend) http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465/.
They of course mention pdftotxt, a tool that comes with the xpdf viewer, which is a much better solution if you don't want to install python etc. Pdfedit's extract text feature (well, more than that actually) is based on the xpdf code but with some improvements, and a few months back in the mailing list they sorted out their code so you could compile pdftotxt from it... i.e. so you can get a pdf2txt with their improvements. This would definitely be worth building for Puppy... I can't remember if the discussion was before the latest pdfedit version was released though.

I remember using a pdf2xml from somewhere, which seemed quite good I think...

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 22:56 Post subject:

Did I mention the pdftotxt from xpdf should be available on the forum (and probably also in petget) in an xpdf-tools package (or something like that)?

Aha - pdf2xml is also based on xpdf http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf2xml/

pdf2txt - just a script http://comp.eonworks.com/scripts/convert_pdf_to_text-20040418.html

Pdf2html looks like it extracts images and text Smile

http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdf2html/

disciple

BTW when Puppy's gtk and stuff gets updated there's an alternative to Pdfshuffler (without the Python dependencies, and written in vala) that's worth trying http://freshmeat.net/projects/final-page

edoc · Posted: Sun 31 Jan 2010, 15:12 Post subject:

edoc · Posted: Sun 31 Jan 2010, 16:13 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Sun 31 Jan 2010, 19:08 Post subject:

Frank Cox · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381

I installed and converted the pdfshuffler squash file and converted it to 4 for Puppy 4.31 and everything worked well including the menu listing.

It is a cool and useful program but unless I missed something it cannot edit the files , only shuffle them, is that correct? It is presented as a replacement for pdfeditor .

I am using a program called ImageScan which works fine but only seems to be able to produce single page pdfs . Are you familiar with a Puppy friendly scanner software that will create multi page pdfs?

Also is there a pet for pdfeditor or another utility that will edit the files themselves?

Frank Cox · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381

I installed and converted the pdfshuffler squash file and converted it to 4 for Puppy 4.31 and everything worked well including the menu listing.

It is a cool and useful program but unless I missed something it cannot edit the files , only shuffle them, is that correct? It is presented as a replacement for pdfeditor .

I am using a program called ImageScan which works fine but only seems to be able to produce single page pdfs . Are you familiar with a Puppy friendly scanner software that will create multi page pdfs?

Also is there a pet for pdfeditor or another utility that will edit the files themselves?