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Comment Re:vision (Score 1) 61

This has been a solved problem for about 30 years, inside the opensource "xpdf" package secretly lives a standalone tool called "pdftotext"

the use is simple:

pdftotext -layout somefile.pdf

enjoy reading somefile.txt as any other plaintext file. The -layout option is required because there is no requirement in pdf for characters to render in the order they will be read on the page. I personally generate pdf files from bottom to top in postscript because I can make the postscript file look like plaintext at the top with layout code at the bottom. Then ps2pdf from the ghostscript package will create the pdf of my resume, for example. This output pdf is almost impossible for systems that don't use pdftotext -layout to ingest.

Comment I think I'm the target audience but.... (Score 2) 124

So I'm solidly in Gen X and old enough to remember going to see the first movie on my birthday in 1981 the day it was re-released in theaters.

I was the right age to be hooked, I even anxiously watched the 2015 sequels, but reading about this one, I find I can't even motivate myself to care about it anymore, so and I know my teenagers don't care about Star Wars at all, so I can't help but wonder who the target audience of this movie is and whether it will kill the franchise once and for all due to its inevitable poor performance considering that I'm not a unique member of Gen X.

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