On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 04:17:42PM +0930, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>
> > One problem: There is another program of the same name at
> > ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/pdf/pdf2txt/
>
> I came up with this after a google.com search but this URL does not seem
> to be up. Has anyone had any luck wi
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 14:59:21 +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> BTW: does it make sense to combine "needsterminal" and "copiousoutput"
> in one mailcap entry? As far as I understand they are quite contrary,
> because "needsterminal" needs a terminal with user input while
> "copiousoutput" pipes
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 04:17:42PM +0930, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:48:30AM -0400, Michael Sanders wrote:
> > One problem: There is another program of the same name at
> > ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/pdf/pdf2txt/
>
> I came up with this after a google.com search b
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:48:30AM -0400, Michael Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:49:18AM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> > Associate Dean:
Apologies for my From: line getting fouled up with that title.
> > n |I do not know about pdf2txt. Could someone please post a source for it
> >
2000-06-09-06:49:18 Randall Hopper:
> pdf2txt is just my simple shell script wrapper for it which
> supports getting the text file on standard output.
At least in the version of pdftotext shipped with Red Hat 6.2
(0.90), pdftotext(1) claims that if the output file is "-", the
output will go to st
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:49:18AM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> Associate Dean:
> n |I do not know about pdf2txt. Could someone please post a source for it
> |and perhaps add a link to the www.mutt.org pages - I do not think it is
> |there vut could of course be wrong.
>
> pdftotext was writt
On 000609, at 07:08:31, Randall Hopper wrote:
> Byrial Jensen:
> |> I want to autoview PDFs, but also be able to kick off acroread.
> |>
> |>application/pdf; pdf2txt %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput
> |>application/pdf; acroread %s
> |
> |The first usable mailcap entry is always use
David T-G:
|Oy!
|
|Well, then, what about
|
| application/pdf; acroread %s
| application/pdf; pdf2txt %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput
| application/pdf; acroread %s
|
|to work for both? mutt will take the first one and never get to the
|dupe; Netscape will fall through to the end an
Randall, et al --
...and then Randall Hopper said...
% Byrial Jensen:
% |
% |The first usable mailcap entry is always used. Try to reverse the
% |two lines.
%
% Actually, that doesn't work. Here's the problem. Mutt takes the first
% ~/.mailcap entry it likes, but Netscape takes the last one
Byrial Jensen:
|> I want to autoview PDFs, but also be able to kick off acroread.
|>
|>application/pdf; pdf2txt %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput
|>application/pdf; acroread %s
|
|The first usable mailcap entry is always used. Try to reverse the
|two lines.
Actually, that doesn't w
Associate Dean:
n |I do not know about pdf2txt. Could someone please post a source for it
|and perhaps add a link to the www.mutt.org pages - I do not think it is
|there vut could of course be wrong.
pdftotext was written by the same guy that did xpdf.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/xpdf.html
Roland Rosenfeld:
Byrial Jensen:
|> I want to autoview PDFs, but also be able to kick off acroread.
|>
|>application/pdf; pdf2txt %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput
|>application/pdf; acroread %s
|
|Try reversing the order of these two lines.
Thanks. That did it.
Roland Rosenfeld:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 02:59:21PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, Randall Hopper wrote:
>
> > I want to autoview PDFs, but also be able to kick off acroread.
> > Autoview works, but I can't figure out how to kick off acroread in mutt.
>
> >application/pdf; pdf2txt %s;
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:49:04 -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> I want to autoview PDFs, but also be able to kick off acroread.
>
> Autoview works, but I can't figure out how to kick off acroread in mutt.
>
> In my .mailcap I have:
>
>application/pdf; pdf2txt %s; needsterminal; copiousoutpu
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, Randall Hopper wrote:
> I want to autoview PDFs, but also be able to kick off acroread.
> Autoview works, but I can't figure out how to kick off acroread in mutt.
>application/pdf; pdf2txt %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput
>application/pdf; acroread %s
>
> The first
> Hmm, looking on my linux redhat system, I note there is a pdftotext
> program which will also convert pdf to text. I wonder if its part of
> xpdf?
Yep.
$ rpm -qlp xpdf-0.7a-1.i386.rpm
/etc/X11/wmconfig/xpdf
/usr/bin/pdftops
/usr/bin/pdftotext
/usr/bin/xpdf
/usr/doc/xpdf-0.7a
/usr/doc/xpdf-
> There have been some nice tips here lately re filters for viewing the
> text in rtf and html docs. Anyone have a pointer for a PDF viewer?
In addition to Adobe Acrobat, there is xpdf, a nice small and portable
viewer under the GPL
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
Regards
Petr
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 02:54:30PM -0500, Howard Arons wrote:
>
> There have been some nice tips here lately re filters for viewing the
> text in rtf and html docs. Anyone have a pointer for a PDF viewer?
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/
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On 03/17/99 Howard Arons uttered the following other thing:
> There have been some nice tips here lately re filters for viewing the
> text in rtf and html docs. Anyone have a pointer for a PDF viewer?
Well, since ghostscript can handle PDF as well as postscript, you could
modify ps2ascii to hand
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