PDF - Conversion (7)

@LCL
The only portable reader for DjVu files I know is STDU Viewer, which is also available here.

LCL: Yes, there are several readers here on the site including CDisplay Ex, Sumatra PDF, Universal Viewer Free ... for converters there's calibre and teconverter. You can dig through the forums for a variety of other resources including Evince and DjVuToy.

I got mixed results testing this with various PDFs. Some files came out larger, some smaller. Also, if converting text, you'll definitely want to enable Antialias.

I've done this, but I still get the "Register Now" nag. Pressing clears the nag, but it's awfully irritating. Is there a way of disabling it?

OK managed to get a register code; use it once and hey presto away you go. BUT the code is written o a local gsview.ini which also incorporates named drive letters. Move your USB stick to another host machine where it will very likely be named differently and gsview.ini is suddenly broken -- you have to supply the reg code again. Very VERY annoying; not true portable freeware, at all ...

Setup is a bit more tricky then running a self-extracting executable, and dumping Ghostscript in the same folder. Here's what I had to do:
1. Download the GSView self-extracting exe and the associated Ghostscript exe
2. Open the GSView self-extracting exe with 7-zip or other archive software and extract everything except the files indicated in 'How to Extract'. (RUNNING the exe will install a non-portable version!!)
3. Create a 'gs9.04' subfolder in the folder that GSviewPortable is in. (it seems the name is usually 'gs' followed by the version #).
4. Open the Ghostscript exe with an archive utility, go to $_OUTDIR, and extract all the files from that folder into the subfolder just created (in this case, gs9.04)
5. Now you can run GSviewPortable

*Note: I can verify what Fergus says - Registration screen pops up on run. Not a huge deal for me

Downloaded this to try exporting the pages of a PDF file to image files. It didn't work at all, just returned an unhelpful "failure" message.

The "About PtoBMP" window says it will extract BMP/JPG from PDF files 'created by BtoPDF' (ONLY!!!); this should be clearly described in Synopsys to avoid frustracting loss of time attempting extraction of JPG from PDF files not created with this utility.

Disappointing, this app does not extract jpg images from pdf files.
But this one does: http://tcpdiag.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdftojpg/pdftojpg/pdf_to_jpg_1a/PDF_to_JPG_exe.zip
It is a command line application (therefore it does not qualify according to portablefreeware) very easy to use (just pass the name of the pdf file as an argument, and all the images are extracted in a folder created and located in the folder where you launch the app). From what I have tested, the images are extracted with their original resolution.

TRY http://web.archive.org/web/20090222232915/http://www.simpopdf.com/pdf-to-text.html

TRY http://www.globalshareware.com/Simpo-PDF-to-Text-151/download.html

Version 1.0 is here on Korean site: https://kbench.com/software/?q=node/33579
and download file is backed up on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20191228191828/http://download.keben.net/family/kbench/util/etc/simpopdf2text.exe

I believe this is v1.0 - http://www.download3000.com/download_10029.html

Can someone verify?

Get it from here...
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/pdfvers.exe

v2.01 available, but it is shareware

Very very Good !!! Develop somthing to convert Word/Excel etc to PDF without having to go through aquisition and installation of Printer driver

PDFproducer is not fancy and will produce text-only PDFs in only one of three fonts, and the entire document is only one font size, but it's quick and it works very well.

Use Open Office if you want a free program to make more complex PDFs including pictures or different fonts and sizes. Open Office can export documents as PDFs.

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