I personally use a service via email, its called robobraille.
www.robobraille.org
Do not let the name fool you, braille is the least of what they do.
convert to rtf or html, or audio for example, and yes plain text.
Convert to quite a few languages as well.
so I convert files to rtf or html or more often text, download them and
use Wordperfect to read them.
on very rare occasion's I use the pdf to text tool included with
shellworld's hosted Ubuntu shell service. they have one for word,
antiword, rtf, unrtf, and docx docx2txt.
Karen
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote:
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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