[pdftex] simple pdftype program?

[Taco Hoekwater]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:59:24 +0200, Hans wrote:

> Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> >Is there a simple program for pdf files which expands the binary parts
> >of PDF files?  Kind of like dvitype.  It would be even nicer if it
> >"interpreted" the PDF file the way dvitype does (showing the text being
> >typeset as well as it can, etc.).
> >  
> >
> For the later: 
> 
>   pdftotext 
> 
> from the xpdf suite is your friend. It does a good job. 

Sometimes pdftex's compress_level can help you, in combination with 
"texexec --pdfselect" (or a latex equivalent) to extract pages from the 
'binary' pdf file. Depends on what you want to do.

-- 
groeten,

Taco