[sf-lug] from matt in toronto re St. Anthony's and a question

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Dec 16, 2007 2:33 PM, jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
> first, just want to reinforce Christian on today's event at St.
> Anthony's -- it was a lot of fun and i think for at least some people
> the FOSS element played a significant role.

Yes, I had a lot of fun helping people!  It was definitely a
successful event and I would do it again in a heart beat.  Maybe next
time it could be bigger!

> now for my stupid question:  i am trying to extract some images from
> stupid pdf from, of all places, marthat stewart living.  i don't know
> that much about pdf but the images look to be svgish -- all lines and
> fills, very simple really.  anyway, tried pdfimages from (in ubuntu) the
> xpf-utils package, and it fails silently to extract any images from this
> particular pdf (works fine on other files though).  so i guess i'm
> looking at some kind of manual extraction or something...

pdf2html perhaps?
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."