[arachne] Re: Best PDF provision

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Glenn,

Thank you VERY much. That update is a beautiful piece of work. It allows users to open newer PDF's, including those with an owner/creator password. And here you have presented us with the complete GS distro and the APM all in one location.

I would also like to get a DOS Ghostscript front-end (PS_View or another) working with the 7.05 distro you offer below, but that is a different topic, and strictly speaking another mail list. I am hoping it is just a matter of setting some paths, editing the main batch files in PS_View to refer to gs.exe rather than gs386.exe, and also to refer to c:\gs rather than t:\gs. But if you have any parting thoughts here I would be happy to have them.

--John Hupp

----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn McCorkle
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Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: [arachne] Re: Best PDF provision


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On ?, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

On ?, John Hupp wrote:

<snip> 

This works with older PDF's, but not even those if they were created
under encryption. There is an encryption patch available from Geoffrey
Keating at http://foam.wonderslug.com/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/, but I was
not able to get it to work in opening a file that was generating an
encryption error. (Test this document:
http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf - The Digital Millennium
Copyright Act of 1998.)


I tried using the Adode conversion system by downloading that PDF and
then attaching it to an email sent to pdf2html@xxxxxxxxx

This is the reply...........

________________ 

There was a problem converting your document.
Please contact your system administrator for details.


Document  : dmca.pdf
File Size  : 71.1KB


Error(s):
Cannot Proceed Processing -
The system cannot convert password protected files which do not allow
modifications. Please edit and submit your file again.

________________________ 

Got it !!! :))

ara-pdf.apm is now updated to work with GhostScript v7.05

http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/apm/ara-pdf.gif (screen cap)
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/apm/ara-pdf.apm [12kb]

http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/apm/gs705dos.zip [5.1meg]
(requires 12megs additional space on drive C:)

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