Me personally, I turn most pdf files into html or plain text before
viewing, since it loads my browser to view the stupid thing, I figure it
may as well be in a native format. The only problem is, the pdftohtml
program puts each page in it's own file, which is fine for some things,
not so much for others. I do use a lot of text, but unfortunately,
there's absolutely no attempt made to maintain formatting when it
converts to text, so we get lines that are typically too long for most
editors.
I use it anyway, because it works with things liek grep, more and other
text manipulation tools, which pdf does not. *grumble*
On 10/24/2024 10:56 PM, Ben Collver via Freedos-user wrote:
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:58:30 +0200
From: Jose Senna <jasse...@mail.com>
Michael Brutman said:
> I feel bad shipping a 3MB PDF file on FreeDOS knowing
> that most people are not going to open it under FreeDOS.
What are the present means to open a .PDF file
under FreeDOS (or any DOS, BTW) ?
There are several options, but i prefer to convert a .PDF to
72 DPI jpeg pages, then use an image viewer.
gs -r72x72 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -sDEVICE=jpeg
-dJPEGQ=90 -o page%03d.jpg file.pdf
The AlphaBits options cause ghostscript to use antialiasing.
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