Re: [9fans] where's that nice plan 9 pdf previewer from iwp9 ?
I know about page, I use it, but I thought pdffs was very nice, so wanted to keep track of it. The talk on it was great. I learned things about pdf I never knew. On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > page(1) ? > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM Ron Minnich wrote: >> >> I have a pdf, created by troff, that causes OSX preview to explode >> when I try to select text. 100%. It's instant. It's funny. >> >> I want that plan 9 pdf previewer I saw the IWP9 talk on :-) > > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1b27724b5865d121-Mf57b54d3ec7da6286ed20ab7 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
[9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report
> Provide a trivial on-ramp to Plan9. > Your ideas here (yes, that means you). One idea i've flirted with, if only for my own use, is to just add some tools - similar to 9front's existing installer - that automate setup tasks for first-time users. Or, at least, man pages that guide through which steps are needed and what they accomplish. e.g. setting up upas is a PITA the first time around: have to figure out where to put TLS certs, keys into factotum / how to keep them there, which can mean figuring out how to set up secstore, have to update the script for sending mail, configure the accounts, ... Once you've done it once, it's easier to do again, but nontrivial. Setting up _multiple_ accounts, even more so. The existing manuals aren't cohesive towards the goal of "read and send mail," so much as they are "this is how upas/fs works, this is how Mail works, this is how factotum works, ..." Recently had to set up upas on my Reform, having not touched the config in 2+ years since doing so on a Thinkpad, and it was much more annoying than it needed to be. A simple draw client that makes reading man pages easier, is included in riostart by default, jumps to intro(1), and adding more useful man pages and links to them from the intro man page, could make a world of difference in terms of accessibility. Anywho, I don't have time to flesh this out now, I probably shouldn't have written this email right now either but gotta procrastinate _somehow_, right? - Noam Preil -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T88b1ba241b319a33-Mfbfc1ed3b27223d34d4ddad2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
Re: [9fans] where's that nice plan 9 pdf previewer from iwp9 ?
It's in the pdffs repo. Started working on it again a few months ago, but my laptop broke; just got a 9 system set up on a pinebook using QEMU+KVM, I'm more than happy to guide through it and assist with debugging if needed :) https://shithub.us/sigrid/pdffs/HEAD/info.html is the canonical repo, though there's a regression I fixed on https://git.sr.ht/~pixelherodev/pdffs I fixed up the patch to push it upstream, but forgot to do so; it's on my list for today. You'll need to install that `pdffs` tool, though currently it's a CLI and not a fs, as pdf infra is more important than tacking on the 9p interface; there's a pdf2txt script in the repo that dumps the text from a pdf; pdfpages.rc will, additionally, do that conversion _per page_, and then print out each page number which includes the relevant text. If there's any other questions or anything else you need help with, lemme know! - Noam Preil -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1b27724b5865d121-M35b8b5d3be035ea9085f0be9 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
Re: [9fans] where's that nice plan 9 pdf previewer from iwp9 ?
page(1) ? On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM Ron Minnich wrote: > I have a pdf, created by troff, that causes OSX preview to explode > when I try to select text. 100%. It's instant. It's funny. > > I want that plan 9 pdf previewer I saw the IWP9 talk on :-) -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1b27724b5865d121-M57224c23a0beeff5d9644045 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
[9fans] where's that nice plan 9 pdf previewer from iwp9 ?
I have a pdf, created by troff, that causes OSX preview to explode when I try to select text. 100%. It's instant. It's funny. I want that plan 9 pdf previewer I saw the IWP9 talk on :-) -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1b27724b5865d121-M8ad4abaa530cda33f0882358 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
