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A.D. Fundum

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Dec 19, 2012, 4:11:45 PM12/19/12
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Possibly FAQs:

1. What's the recommended software to view "modern" PDF files ,when
the OS/2 version of Adobe's products cannot process it ?

The documents may be press releases with financial informatoin, so a
maintained lay-out and images may be important, but it doesn't have to
be a perfect copy. I've tried a few packages, but those failed with
the first PDF document I've tried.

2. Assuming a PDF newspaper with a possible complicated lay-out, is
there a PDF parser?

The OS/2 version of Adobe's product is capable of processing the file,
but I'ld like to use my computer to retrieve certain data. At the
moment it's a PDF 1.4-file without recognizable text. I want to locate
"Paris" in the daily "Global weather"-article and display the
temperature. Some PDF2Text may not be accurate enough. That's not a
parser, the data isn't perfect (Paris may occur more than once) and
perhaps the lay-out has to be maintained to be able to parse it
reliably.


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Tom Perrett

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Dec 20, 2012, 6:28:04 AM12/20/12
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Lucide is your solution

http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide




Alex Taylor

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Dec 20, 2012, 11:26:01 PM12/20/12
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:28:04 UTC, "Tom Perrett" <to...@st.net.au> wrote:

> >1. What's the recommended software to view "modern" PDF files ,when
> >the OS/2 version of Adobe's products cannot process it ?
>
> Lucide is your solution
>
> http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide

There's also Qpdfview: http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4%20Office

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Please take off hat when replying.

Barbara

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Dec 21, 2012, 9:08:53 AM12/21/12
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:26:01 UTC, "Alex Taylor"
<mai...@reply.to.address> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:28:04 UTC, "Tom Perrett" <to...@st.net.au> wrote:
>
> > >1. What's the recommended software to view "modern" PDF files ,when
> > >the OS/2 version of Adobe's products cannot process it ?
> >
> > Lucide is your solution
> >
> > http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide
>
> There's also Qpdfview: http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4%20Office

Anybody used this?

Lucide usually works great for me, but two days ago I downloaded a PDF
manual for a new HDTV. Lucide loaded, displayed it just fine from the
Samsung website, but when I tried to save a copy, Lucide refused. This
could be called a "modern" PDF, 2013 TV model, 60 page document.

So, I booted windows, downloaded and saved the PDF using the Windows
Acrobat reader. Went back to eCS, and Lucide had no problem opening,
displaying, printing the pages I needed. What's with that anyway?

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Barbara

Mr. G

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Dec 21, 2012, 11:46:22 AM12/21/12
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I've run into that before also. My solution was to change settings
in the browser to 'always ask' option instead of 'open with Lucide'
for pdf files. That way if Lucide won't save a file, I close Lucide,
click on the link in the web page again and choose the 'save file'
option instead of 'open with'. Choose your save location, then you
have a saved copy on disk. No need to boot to M$ or anything else.

Dave Saville

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Dec 21, 2012, 11:54:34 AM12/21/12
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:46:22 UTC, "Mr. G" <nos...@yahoo.com> wrote:

<snip>

>I've run into that before also. My solution was to change settings
> in the browser to 'always ask' option instead of 'open with Lucide'
> for pdf files. That way if Lucide won't save a file, I close Lucide,
> click on the link in the web page again and choose the 'save file'
> option instead of 'open with'. Choose your save location, then you
> have a saved copy on disk. No need to boot to M$ or anything else.
>

Does not matter if Lucide refuses to save - it will most likely be in
your tmp folder - Where do you think Lucide reads it from?

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Dave Saville

Dave Yeo

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Dec 21, 2012, 1:13:52 PM12/21/12
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Just press shift while clicking the PDF link and the browser should
offer to download it. JavaScript might screw it up though.
Dave

Mr. G

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Dec 21, 2012, 2:48:02 PM12/21/12
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True. I was trying to be on the safe side in case one forgets to
copy/move the file to a more permanent location and then deletes the
contents of temp dir. I personally delete the temp dir contents
daily.

Barbara

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Dec 21, 2012, 6:09:42 PM12/21/12
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Thanks! I should have thought of that. I guess the fact that Lucide
has no trouble with 99% of PDFs, it's a surprise when it gets fussy.
Maybe it's just with the big (60 page) files it doesn't like.

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Barbara

A.D. Fundum

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Dec 23, 2012, 3:34:50 PM12/23/12
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> Lucide is your solution

> http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide

Now FF crashes with all PDF files. What are all recommended FF
settings? I added Lucide to the options of pdf and x-pdf (both "Always
aks"), but a direct link to a PDF doesn't result in a dialog and
disabling the plug-in didn't help.


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Dave Yeo

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Dec 23, 2012, 7:21:15 PM12/23/12
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Try setting MOZ_NO_RWS=1
Dave

A.D. Fundum

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Dec 24, 2012, 12:25:30 AM12/24/12
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> Try setting MOZ_NO_RWS=1

Thanks for the orders, doctors.

FTR: besides the DLLs in its main README, Lucide also requires at
least STDCPP.DLL, part of the GCC core distribution (running Lucide as
a stand-alone app already pointed that out).


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