On 2009-03-04, Mike Marchywka wrote: > > Mike Marchywka wrote: > >> I've had a persistent problem getting apropos to work > >> as it never finds anything appropriate. Is there > >> something I need to do to make this work? > >> > > After each setup session, you need to run, /usr/sbin/makewhatis -u. > > > Thanks but I did get that far after earlier hints and you list > below is about what I ended up with too. One problem > I ran into was trying to extract sensical text from the > IRS instructions.
I have that problem with the printed versions. > I used the pdftotext utility IIRC from > > http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html > > and it didn't seem to be able to separate multi-column text > automatically ( with sed and awk I got what I needed but what > a mess). Did you use the -layout option to pdftotext? It makes a huge difference on the documents I've converted, but they've all been single column. Regards, Gary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
