[pmwiki-users] PDF to Wiki (Was: How to verify links)

[Chris Cox]

chr at home.se wrote:
> Hi Stephen
> 
> I forwarded your question to the pmwiki-list as well, see more below.
> 
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Stephen Harris wrote:
> 
>>Hello Christian,
>>
>>I borrowed this subject to ask you a vaguely related question.
>>Is there away for the Wiki to automatically convert a .pdf file
>>into the Wiki format? A pdf2wiki ?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Stephen 
> 
> Hmm... a PDF to wiki.... I don't think I've heard that one before. But 
> maybe someone on the pmwiki list has.  Perhaps PDF -> RTF -> wiki, or 
> possibly PDF -> HTML -> wiki.  However, you'll probably lose a lot of 
> formatting, so unless you're primarily looking at just converting text I 
> think it's a no go.

pstoedit

I wrote the Tk plugin for it.  It might do the job... but it's PS
instead of PDF and it needs to be well formatted PS at that.