[willus]

Originally Posted by Umesh

Hello Willus, thanks for creating this wonderful piece of software. I use it quite a lot to convert my pdfs. However I do face one problem, i.e when i try to use foxit pdf to read aloud some of my pdfs, it reads them in a haphazard way with lot of text being repeated. When i tried to select text on the converted pdf, it showed that although the text is currently in a single coloumn, the ghost of the previous 2 coloumn file is somehow visible to my foxit reader and it also reads it aloud, resulting in repetition. Does native pdf output have something to do with it? What settings would work best if i want to use a text reader on my converted files. If you could please guide.

Try adding the -ppgs option or clicking on the "post-process with ghostscript" checkbox if using the MS Windows GUI. You'll need to install Ghostscript if you haven't yet.

Command Line Options
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-ppgs[-]          Post process [do not post process] with ghostscript.  This
                  will take the final PDF output and process it using
                  ghostscript's pdfwrite device (assuming ghostscript is
                  available).  A benefit to doing this is that all "invisible"
                  and/or overlapping text regions (outside cropping areas) get
                  completely removed, so that text selection capability is
                  improved.  The actual ghostscript command used is:
                  gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
                     -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sOutputFile=<outfile>
                     <srcfile>
                  The default is not to post process with ghostscript.