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What do you want do do with it?
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Reformat it so that it looks good on the iLiad, of course.
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Preview.app on MacOSX can do a lot with pdf.
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Requires that I purchase a closed, proprietary system to use. So that's out.
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Ghostscript can translate from pdf to pdf and meanwhile do "stuff".
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Only if it's not protected (of course, they are hacks around that). But if I have a poorly formatted PDF, I don't need yet another poorly formatted PDF, but rather a nice document file that I can reflow the text and create content that is nicely formatted for the iLiad.
The best Ghostscript can do is let me create an unprotected PDF from a protected PDF.
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PDFEdit can do quite some magical stuff with the innards of pdf.
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Won't compile. But then it's still alpha software, so I didn't expect much.
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PDFLab
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Same as Preview.app.
Requires that I purchase a closed, proprietary system to use.
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sed/awk, vi whatever.
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PDFs are binary files, so sed/awk and vi don't do anything.
I've gotten a few unprotected PDFs and tried pdftohtml with those, but the resulting files are very bad. All formatting is removed.
What I want is something that will magically convert a current PDF into something that is well-formatted for the iLiad. This goes back to the main problem with PDF: It's a format used for PRINT books - just displayed electronically. This format is worthless for general eBook readers since all readers will have different sized screens and different resolutions.
Of course, I can't get what I want. What I will settle for is something that will convert a PDF to a format that I can, without having to spend hours, reformat to the way I like it and then create my own PDFs that are correctly formatted for the iLiad.