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Re: Petition for help: console pdf viewing



On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> There are some pdfto... utilities which can be used to extract text from
> PDFs,  if that suites your needs.   In some cases, text locking
This wasn't really what I'm looking for, since the pdf's in question have
images. I really would want to see them in console mode (more even since
my X cannot be used for the moment due to some upgrade problems I haven't
sorted out).

Fbi is capable of doing this, I'm sure (it's a framebuffer image viewer,
it converts the pdf to an image format normally). The converting however
has issues on my Woody box.

> Other option is to dump to printer.  Not sure if this is directly
> possible through acroread or xpdf, though a pdftops filter should allow
> this.

It's not really necessary for me to see the pdf, as I can always do it on
my Windows box, but I would call it a shame if I don't get this to work in
Linux.

Thanks for the hints!

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