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I have some PDFs and I am trying to cut and paste text they contain from Acrobat Reader into an HTML form. It seems that some of these files use (I suspect) unicode for text encoding, so when I try to paste into the HTML form (on firefox) I get the little boxes with hex chars in them rather than readable text. The problem is not that the PDF has not been OCRed -- when I try to do that in Acrobat Pro it says it can't because the file already contains renderable text. Is there any way to deal with this? For example could I add some sort of javascript to the form that would do conversion? Are you

When I use Acrobat Distiller (v.9.1.3), it seems that I cannot embed all fonts -- at least not in the way I want to (no subsetting). One example is Wingdings (TrueType). I activated the tickboxes and settings to "Always embed" and "No subsetting" . If I check in a text editor the *.joboptions file that I saved as my custom Distiller profile it clearly says: /EmbedAllFonts true /EmbedOpenType true /MaxSubsetPct 1 /SubsetFonts false Some fonts Distiller does embed fully (as requested by me), others not. If I change the setting to do font subsetting, this works with all fonts. Therefore I think

I know this can be done in IE by creating an ActiveX object, but how do I do it in FF. The navigator.plugins['Adobe Acrobat'] object lets me know if it's installed or not, but it doesn't contain the version number. Any ideas? navigator.plugins[n].name where n is the index of the Acrobat plugin is supposed have the version number in it. Unfortunately, starting with Adobe Reader 8, they changed the name to "Adobe PDF Plug-In for Firefox and Netscape" , with no version information. So, if this is the name you've detected at least Reader 8, but can't tell versions 8 from 9. Also, make sure you

I am plotting data with matplotlib including LaTeX fonts. The pdf created can be displayed by evince, inkscape, GIMP but not by acroread resp. adobe reader. The code prototype works with a lot of figures and only a few plots have this problem. ... fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6)) ax = fig.add_subplot(111) savedpi = 250 fileformat = 'pdf' ... p12,=ax.plot(plimit12-binSize/2.0, mean12, '-', lw=2) ax.set_yscale('log') ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(matplotlib.ticker.ScalarFormatter()) ax.legend([p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9, p10, p11, p12], [ "C01", "C02", "C03", "C04", "C05", "C06", "C07",

I have a pdf file including form fields and need to export the data into a xml file AUTOMATICALLY . Here is a screen of a sample form I created for testing: Note: It works great exporting it MANUALLY using Acrobat Professional by clicking on Tools > Form > Export Form Data and finally chose xml extension for file output. This is the result I'm getting when I export it manually: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <fields> <first_name>John</first_name> <last_name>Doe</last_name> </fields> However, I need to automate it, e.g. with a python script , Java implementation or some command line

Is there any tool in some PDF Viewer/Editor like Acrobat, Evince, etc. where I can navigate and watch coordinates(i.e. (x,y)) of any selected point in PDF-document? I've found that Gimp is perfect for this! It even has different units of measure, so this is my choice To explain @michael Z's answer, I found the following works: These steps are for paint.net, but most image manipulation programs like The Gimp should be similar: open the pdf up in reader. screenshot it. paste into paint.net choose image > flip vertical. choose view >show rulers. Also tick pixels. Resize image to use inches and be

I have written a script in python using pywin32 to save pdf files to text that up until recently was working fine. I use similar methods in Excel. The code is below: def __pdf2Txt(self, pdf, fileformat="com.adobe.acrobat.accesstext"): outputLoc = os.path.dirname(pdf) outputLoc = os.path.join(outputLoc, os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(pdf))[0] + '.txt') try: win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{E64169B3-3592-47d2-816E-602C5C13F328}', 0, 1, 1) adobe = win32com.client.DispatchEx('AcroExch.App') pdDoc = win32com.client.DispatchEx('AcroExch.PDDoc') pdDoc.Open(pdf) jObject = pdDoc.GetJSObject()