Re: [pdftohtml] output is (mostly) nonsense

[Mikhail K. <me...@cs...>]

This might mean that the PDF does not contain the proper text at all. 
Unfortunately a lot of PDF generators create files with font subsets and 
assign arbitrary codes to the letters used.  pdftohtml can't handle 
that...

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> This is a resend.  Since writing it, I found your archives, and I now
> see why you don't allow non-member posting.  I assume you'll get through
> all that spam to find the real posts some time in the next couple
> years... in the mean time, I'll post this as a member.
>
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> Hi,
>
> Please excuse me if there is an archive for this list; I couldn't find
> one or links to one on http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/.
>
> I'm using pdftohtml for the first time, and having looked through the
> man page, and tried many different configurations of command line
> options, I'm getting nothing like the pdf document.
>
> The html is fine, index and links and all, but the content of the pages
> looks like the following (I have a screenshot I could send, if that
> would help):
>
> !
> " #
> $ $%
> ! !
> !!&$"
> $! &$"
> $! &
> $
> " !
> $ $ '
> $$
> Every once in a while (almost once per page, but not quite), there is a
> line, and sometimes a paragraph, of text from the pdf.  The number of
> pages is correct.
>
> I tried with -enc UTF-8, but it looks like there isn't a switch for
> input encoding, if I felt adventurous enough to play with that.
>
> Anyway, I'm assuming there is something straightforward that I'm
> missing, but I'm not sure what, and I haven't found this discussed.
>
> btw, I'm running Ubuntu 6.06.
>
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