Hello, I'm using kubuntu feisty. When I do the following command

pdftohtml -enc windows-1252 -i -p file.pdf

I get the following error

Error: Couldn't find unicodeMap file for the 'windows-1252' encoding

Regardless of what encoding I try. The reason I need to do this is
that when I convert PDFs to HTML files I get some errors in the
encoding. It's all English, but the quotes for example get replaced by
a series of characters and so on.

Any ideas what I can do to fix this? Thanks.

On 29 Apr, 00:53, fli...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, I'm using kubuntu feisty. When I do the following command
>
> pdftohtml -enc windows-1252 -i -p file.pdf
>
> I get the following error
>
> Error: Couldn't find unicodeMap file for the 'windows-1252' encoding
>
> Regardless of what encoding I try. The reason I need to do this is
> that when I convert PDFs to HTML files I get some errors in the
> encoding. It's all English, but the quotes for example get replaced by
> a series of characters and so on.
>
> Any ideas what I can do to fix this? Thanks.

Can someone help me with this please?

Hi,

On 2 May 2007 06:50:10 -0700 flifus@gmail.com wrote:

> On 29 Apr, 00:53, fli...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello, I'm using kubuntu feisty. When I do the following command
> >
> > pdftohtml -enc windows-1252 -i -p file.pdf
> >
> > I get the following error
> >
> > Error: Couldn't find unicodeMap file for the 'windows-1252' encoding
> >
> > Regardless of what encoding I try. The reason I need to do this is
> > that when I convert PDFs to HTML files I get some errors in the
> > encoding. It's all English, but the quotes for example get replaced
> > by a series of characters and so on.
> >
> > Any ideas what I can do to fix this? Thanks.


I think Ubuntu's poppler/xpdf setup is absolutely broken. You can fix
this temporarily by installing xpdf, backup /usr/share/xpdf, uninstall
it again and reinstall poppler-utils and restore the backed up folder.

-hwh

On 2 May, 15:04, Hans-Werner Hilse <h...@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2 May 2007 06:50:10 -0700 fli...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On 29 Apr, 00:53, fli...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hello, I'm using kubuntu feisty. When I do the following command
>
> > > pdftohtml -enc windows-1252 -i -pfile.pdf
>
> > > I get the followingerror
>
> > >Error:Couldn'tfindunicodeMapfilefor the 'windows-1252' encoding
>
> > > Regardless of what encoding I try. The reason I need to do this is
> > > that when I convert PDFs to HTML files I get some errors in the
> > > encoding. It's all English, but the quotes for example get replaced
> > > by a series of characters and so on.
>
> > > Any ideas what I can do to fix this? Thanks.
>
> I think Ubuntu's poppler/xpdf setup is absolutely broken. You can fix
> this temporarily by installing xpdf, backup /usr/share/xpdf, uninstall
> it again and reinstall poppler-utils and restore the backed up folder.
>
> -hwh

Hi. Thanks for the reply. What will this actually do? Because when I
installed xpdf I still couldn't get this command working.