On 2022-09-02, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 01:02:10 (+0000), jindam, vani wrote:
>> i am trying to open pdf file from cli:
>> $ /usr/bin/lowriter --inputfilter="*.pdf" /home/user/file.pdf
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>> the above command fails to open pdf file
>>
>> what am i doing wrong?
>
> Try removing the characters "put": it's --infilter.
>
> Note that I don't know what kinds of string are expected as an
> argument to infilter, but *.pdf worked for me in your example.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
I tried with the --infilter flag. lowriter does nothing different here
with or without that flag; it opens the raw pdf file.
What's supposed to happen? The man page says
--infilter="<filter>"
Force an input filter type if possible. For example
--infilter="Calc Office Open XML"
only
I'm afraid I'm uncertain what that means.
