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daudi · 06-25-2008, 02:54 PM

I think that pdftk will also convert a PDF to version 1.4. pdftk is apparently available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

To convert files, all you seem to need to do is:

Code:

pdftk mygoogle.pdf cat output converted.pdf

where mygoogle.pdf is the file from google, and converted.pdf is a name for the output file after conversion.
I live in the UK and can't seem to get access to the PDF pointed to by Arunava (as seems to be the case with a number of google books) so I can't test this particular file.

06-25-2008, 02:54 PM	#8
daudi Addict Posts: 281 Karma: 904 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kent, UK Device: iRex iLiad, Psion 5MX, nokia n800	I think that pdftk will also convert a PDF to version 1.4. pdftk is apparently available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris. http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ To convert files, all you seem to need to do is: Code: pdftk mygoogle.pdf cat output converted.pdf where mygoogle.pdf is the file from google, and converted.pdf is a name for the output file after conversion. I live in the UK and can't seem to get access to the PDF pointed to by Arunava (as seems to be the case with a number of google books) so I can't test this particular file.