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Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?



On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 00:45, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> > > are there any utilities that will let me read pdf files and word
> > > documents in console?
> > 
> > Dunno about pdf, but package 'catdoc' should help with word documents.
> 
> thanx. this works great. one problem solved :)
> 
> -- 
> regards,
>  
> sandip p deshmukh
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From the pdf side, it depends on whether or not you use framebuffer -
fbgs will do it there. Offhand, I'd suspect that if you want to study
ghostscript rendering to SVGA, it *could* be done in non-framebuffer
environments, but it is not a *totally trivial* task.
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