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Distribution: Solaris 10 (x86) and Windows XP Pro SP2
Posts: 596
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Line Printer??? UMMMM.....I dont know...But it is connected to paralell LPT-1 printer port on my PC..But its not networked if thats what you meant by "line" printer.
How can I solve this issue?
SO everytime I want to print a PDF file, I have to boot into Windows and print from there..
Distribution: Solaris 10 (x86) and Windows XP Pro SP2
Posts: 596
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Is there any way I can still print though? Can I copy all the text thats inside the pdf file and paste them onto StarOffice text program? But theres no COPY option I can do in the Gnome PDF viewer.
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
Posts: 9,789
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You can try pdftotext to extract text from a pdf file.
If you haven't it already installed (/opt/sfw/bin/pdftotext), you can get it from http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/xpdf, then it will be in /opt/csw/bin/pdftotext.
Distribution: Solaris 10 (x86) and Windows XP Pro SP2
Posts: 596
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Do I have to download this: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf within the link that you provived?
Once downloaded...How can I install it..?? Is it easy or hard? Do I need to extract this file and then do what..Please post all the commands on what I need to do to get this going. Because I really dont need to boot into WIndows just to print a PDF file...Thats very pothetic.
Do I need to install the WGET thing too? If I have to install a dozen other things just to install xPDF, then forget it.
Distribution: Solaris 10 (x86) and Windows XP Pro SP2
Posts: 596
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Now whats it doing now: Im on this phase right now..
Code:
100%[====================================>] 2,073,625 33.97K/s ETA 00:00
08:04:13 (30.87 KB/s) - `xpdf-3.01,REV=2006.02.08-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz' saved [2073625/2073625]
Analysing special files...
cpio: Impossible header type.
1 errors
retrying with different archive offset, dont worry about it...
11567 blocks
Error: dependancy CSWcommon not up to date
Call pkg-get again in 'upgrade all' mode
eg: '/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get upgrade'
This will then upgrade all packages cleanly
#
Whats next??? Its not chatty like WIndows is...It does not even instruct me on what to do next??? How weird...
Distribution: Solaris 10 (x86) and Windows XP Pro SP2
Posts: 596
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I cancelled this operation..because now I dont know what to do at this point on. WIll you please explain what to do next?
What does that last operation wants me to do? Beats me...
I think I got it...HOLD ON..
Now its doing this...I started the whole process again:
Code:
100%[====================================>] 2,073,625 81.18K/s ETA 00:00
08:15:01 (44.01 KB/s) - `xpdf-3.01,REV=2006.02.08-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz' saved [2073625/2073625]
Analysing special files...
cpio: Impossible header type.
1 errors
retrying with different archive offset, dont worry about it...
11567 blocks
Error: dependancy CSWcommon not up to date
Call pkg-get again in 'upgrade all' mode
eg: '/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get upgrade'
This will then upgrade all packages cleanly
# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get upgrade
/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get[1770]: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/blastwave/unstable: not found
WARNING: gpg not found
note: upgrading ALL INSTALLED PACKAGES
Installed software packages:
zlib xcdroast wget tiff schilyutils schilybase png pkg_get openssl libiconv jpeg gtk glib ggettext gdk_pixbuf expat common cdrtools
zlib is up to date
xcdroast is up to date
wget is up to date
tiff is up to date
schilyutils is up to date
schilybase is up to date
png is up to date
Pre-existing local file pkg_get-3.6-all-CSW.pkg matches checksum
Keeping existing file
## Waiting for up to <300> seconds for package administration commands to become available (another user is administering packages)
And I still dont know whats its trying to do for crying out loud...And its stuck on this for 30 minutes already..Something is wrong here.
Distribution: Solaris 10 (x86) and Windows XP Pro SP2
Posts: 596
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Well...Its stuck for an hour now...Can you please explain whats going on here?
OK..now did something adn still says updating 300 for seconds for something...Why is it taking this long?
How long should I wait for this? Its taking long and I dont have all day to wait. Its doing this now:
Code:
100%[====================================>] 3,694 17.10K/s
08:26:21 (17.02 KB/s) - `common-1.4.3,REV=2006.01.22-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz' saved [3694/3694]
## Waiting for up to <300> seconds for package administration commands to become available (another user is administering packages)
pkgrm: ERROR: Unable to acquire package administration lock for this system; try again later
pkgrm: ERROR: Unable to lock this zone for administration
1 package was not processed!
Analysing special files...
27 blocks
## Waiting for up to <300> seconds for package administration commands to become available (another user is administering packages)
Distribution: Solaris 10 (x86) and Windows XP Pro SP2
Posts: 596
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I dont mind using Gnome PDF...
I just want to COPY the text from the PDF file and then paste it into Star Office...thats all...Now the install was not good...
Is there something else that I can do here?
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