[lbo-talk] POQ article on social attitudes

[ravi]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> John Thornton wrote:
> 
> 
>>>There was an interesting article in a recent ish of Public Opinion 
>>>Quarterly showing that social attitudes in the U.S. have been 
>>>getting steadily more "liberal" for decades, even during the 
>>>supposedly conformist 1950s.
>>
>>Any chance you could post it?
> 
> Nope. I could get it as a PDF, but that's hard to translate into text.
> 

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_simple_form.html

might help. or you could use that dreaded command line ;-) (or some
ghostscript GUI) and convert pdf -> text or pdf -> ps -> text.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/macos/manual.htm#ps2ascii
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_ps2ascii.htm
http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm

also, i think you may be able to use the text selection tool in acrobat
reader to select, copy and paste just the text.

	--ravi