--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:12:11 -0800 > (PST) Patrick Bartek > <bartek047@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 3/4/10, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > I seem to recall that there was a pdftopdf in > Fedora 11 > > > (from what I > > > recall). Which package provides this in Fedora > 12? > > > > > > I tried yum provides */pdftopdf and yum provides > */*/pdf > > > and yum > > > provides */bin/pdf and yum provides *bin/pdf to > no avail. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > I'm confused. Do you really mean pdftopdf? > If you already have a pdf file, why the need to convert it > to pdf? > > > > Hi, > > Thanks very much! Good point. The trouble is that my pdf > file is 12 MB > long. The website for a journal will only accept 6MB. There > are all > these sites (Manuscript Central, EES, etc) which take a > huge pdf file > (such as 25 MB) lets say and convert it to something very > small (such > as 2 or 3 MB, lets say) so that it can go for peer review > and they have > to be using some conversion program. I was thinking that it > is > pdftopdf. But maybe not. Thanks for the clarification, but I'm not aware of any native Linux utilities that do exactly what you want. > Any suggestions? Try pdftk, PDF Toolkit, or pdf-tools. There are a lot of other 'yum info pdf*' or *pdf listings. Also, does your journal site accept zipped files? Since pdf is mostly plain text, zipping them can reduce their size considerably without changing the content. B -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
