Somebody - author in a prestigious scientific journal - seems to have thought the ideal format to save a video in was using Microsoft Word to envelop it into a PDF. Although that PDF declares itself as version 1.7 it can't be opened with Acrobat 8. How do I extract the video from that silly mantle? As far as I'm aware (which is limited) it can be done neither through the xpdf-tool nor ghostscript. Any hints? Danke Axel
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Axel Berger wrote: > Somebody - author in a prestigious scientific journal - seems to have > thought the ideal format to save a video in was using Microsoft Word to > envelop it into a PDF. Although that PDF declares itself as version 1.7 > it can't be opened with Acrobat 8. How do I extract the video from that > silly mantle? As far as I'm aware (which is limited) it can be done > neither through the xpdf-tool nor ghostscript. You've tried it with poppler: http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/poppler-0_35_0-1_oc00.zip ? Poppler is a fork of xpdf. Perhaps pdfdetach -saveall file does what you want. -- J�rg Rustmeier
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J�rg Rustmeier wrote: > You've tried it with poppler: > http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/poppler-0_35_0-1_oc00.zip ? Sorry, I forgot: It's only an OS/2-eCS file. Eventually look for the Linux version or a Windows port. -- J�rg Rustmeier
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> How do I extract the video from that silly mantle? As far as I'm > aware (which is limited) it can be done neither through the > xpdf-tool nor ghostscript. The "pdftk" CLI utility has an /unpack/ command. BTW, is it passworded? If not, then indeed it's silly to contain a video in a PDF document by itself. OTOH, if it needs to be encrypted for a non-technical audience in a platform agnostic way that does not impose installation of an obscure tool, then it's sensible. What alternative is there? There's zip, but corporate e-mail firewalls often block zip files.
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Nomen Nescio wrote: > OTOH, if it needs to be encrypted > for a non-technical audience in a platform agnostic way that does > not impose installation of an obscure tool, then it's sensible. = > What alternative is there? Videos as supplementary material are not uncommon in scientific joiurnals and I've seen them all, mov, mp4, even avi, but never before PDF. And even if there were a reason for it, who but a moron would choose Microsoft Word as the appropriate tool to do it with? And thanks J=F6rg and Nomen, I'll look into both your suggestions. Axel
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