ian field wrote in message
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"n cook" wrote in message
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"n cook" wrote in message
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Philson wrote in message
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You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder
as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a
jpeg.
I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access
this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first
page/
line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s
I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross
reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at
the
end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text files
as
you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file
names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to
nothing
as useless before externally indexing
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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/
It would be really great if you could upload these CDs to a server
somewhere
and post the URL here so we can all have a look.
If I could afford that sort of behaviour I would not be using a pc
cobbled
together from skip-trash etc and using win98
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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/
There is a free file hosting service at: http://www.filespoint.com/ but
I'm
not sure if there is any way to upload a whole CD - the limit on filesize
is
500Mb so it might be possible to change the attributes of a folder saved
on
a HD to fool the OS into thinking its a file (and give it an extension so
it
looks like a file) someone who knows more than me might be able to clarify
if this is possible, and if so how?
Have you any idea how long it would take to upload 500Mbyte on a 28K modem ?
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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/