Re: Abiword 2.8.6 and problem or bug: Abiword conversion from pdf to text fails on several installation

Hi Thomas,

This is really not a use case that AbiWord is meant to support. Please
check into poppler or xpdf. They offer a command line program called
"pdftotext" and "pdftohtml" that will do what you need to do.

Cheers,
Dom

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Gries <mail@tgries.de> wrote:
> (cross-posted to abiword-user and abiword-dev)
>
> Recently I filed http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13167 .
> It has relevance to a problem with Etherpad-Lite
> https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/issues/194
> which I try to solve - I am working with the Etherpad-Lite developers.
>
> In this mail I only refer to Abiword command line use,
> and only to Abiwords convert functions.
>
> I have three installation on different servers,
> but two of the three installations have the
>
> Problem:
> ========
> Abiword does _not_ correctly convert PDF to TEXT:
> it shows the PDF file's bytes instead.
>
> abiword --plugin=AbiCommand
> Abiword>convert x.pdf x.txt txt
>
> x.txt shows the PDF file in bytes, instead the extracted text.
>
> This happens on two of three of my installation running SLES-11 and OpenSuse
> 11.3 in a headless server environment (virtual machines, hosted servers).
>
> The version on OpenSuse 11.4 is working correctly and converts the text
> from the PDF file on the command line as expected.
>
>
> And perhaps, can you give a detailed explanation on your wiki page
> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Compiling_AbiWord how to exactly
>
> - "configure/make/make install" Abiword
>
> - for a headless server environment
> - without GUI
> - with AbiCommand and all the nice import/export support ?
>
> See also my http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13162#c2 .
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>

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