converting pdfs with xpdf

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Dave wrote:

> Hello,
>    I'm running freebsd6 and xpdf 3.01_2. I've got pdfs that i want  
> to convert to ps and text documents in four different areas in my  
> home directory. I could convert them such as:
> pdfto format file1.pdf file2.ps etc.
> but i was wondering if there was a faster way? My second issue is  
> some of these files are pdf 1.6 and as i've already tried xpdf  
> won't convert these docs, does anyone have xpdf working with pdf  
> 1.6 files?
>    Second, after i convert all these docs there are three patterns  
> i'd like to remove from them, all having spaces and & signs in  
> them. Again, i could do this manually, but i was wondering one if  
> there was a faster way and two if i could do this on the tail end  
> of the conversion process so i would only have to issue one command  
> and come back probably a while later, these files are big, and it's  
> all done?
> Thanks.
> Dave.

Ghostscript works wonders with PDFs and PSs, but then again I don't  
know how well the [linux-]acroread port works and that may be worth a  
shot as well.
As for the removing of characters, if you have a text file you can  
always process it with sed or [g]awk.
-Garrett