Re: pdf page counting

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 11:40:38 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 12/23/2024 9:34 AM, legg wrote:

For non-Adobe tools... <shrug>

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It'll have to be somebody else who has the right software, then.

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If it is something you can put on a web site, I'll be happy to
add the "sections" to correspond with the numbering as it
appears on the individual pages.

The html was only an exercise with a few pages.

Although I've mounted books as html bodies, they were fairly
short, simple and just begging to have single page access
for download ( tube curves, spec sheets etc).

http://www.magma.ca/~legg/CCDM/CCDMp000iii.html

The thing I'm working on now is 422 pages with a 5000 line index.
I'm not going through THAT, manually inserting links.

A preliminary draft ( there are already 40 pages updated for
the next draft) is available for comment and criticism.
At 100Meg ( but getting smaller) it may be a slow download.
Few will find the actual content of interest.

http://ve3ute.ca/prairie_gold/sample_241220.zip

Keep in mind that this is a replica - all original spelling,
formatting and layout (including original errors) is intentionally
preserved. Unless you've got an original hard copy, it may be
hard to tell what's wrong - but overlapping images/text,
or ocr source errors (rn / m , 1/l/I CG e/a) still abound.

OCR on this was so bad that the output was often useless as
a textual contribution, but could sometimes be edited and
reformatted manually. PDF-OCR scanned page file size was
also 3 to 30 x larger than a pdf published from a text-corrected
doc.

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I get pdfs either from a scan or through printing utilities.
No intention of giving Adobe money for a format that was developed
for common usage.

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I buy tools that solve problems.  I don't really care who gets
paid for them as long as there is a net value added in the
products that I produce with them.  Adobe did, after all, create
PostScript.
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I think you'll find that you are misled in Adobe's original
source for the pdf and eps files' original development.

They were always intended to be open source.

There is no money in this work; or for anybody involved.

Thought it might take if I processed it through html formatting,
but that didn't seem to 'take' either.

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I suspect this is a common enough problem that there are other
(non-Adobe) solutions out there.  In a pinch (for a "one off"),
you could directly edit the EPS.
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[I do this in reverse; I use Illustrator to create drawings
and then extract the specific PS commands to paste into other
documents.  Saves me the trouble of having to develop a
"drawing application".]
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RL