Bug#255585: kpdf: please consider reading from stdin
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 12:30:39AM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:09:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Package: kpdf
> > Version: 4:3.2.2-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > It would be good to have the possibility to have kpdf at the end of a
> > pipe, for example of "< foo.pdf.gz gunzip | kpdf".
>
> kpdf is able to open .pdf.gz and .pdf.bz2 files AFAICT.
>
> anyway, in most decent shells (e.g. bash and zsh) you can do:
>
> kpdf <(zcat foo.pdf.gz)
Neat. Didn't know that. One never stops learning.
> I won't close the bug, since it's valid, but I'm 99% sure upstream
> will close it and tag it wontfix.
Which is actually a big pity considering that the patch necessary is
like five lines of code.
Greetings
Marc
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