On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:45:36AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:59:14 -0500 > Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:15:45 GMT > > > Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > Actually, I do pop into firefox and xpdf once in a while to check a > > > > reference, which is not possible without X, but your point is well > > > > > > You could actually pipe the pdf through a pdf to text / html converter > > > (e.g. poppler-utils or xpdf-utils) and use a TUI html browser (e.g. > > > lynx, links, links2) from the cli. > > You forgot one more thing: fb > > I use fbi and fbgs. fbgs can 'view' ps and pdf. > > Cool. I had browsed through the archives lookng for a pdf reader that > didn't depend on X but I missed 'fbi', presumably since I was using > aptitude which searches only package names by default. Lazy, I know :). > I notice now, however, that 'fbi' doesn't provide the virtual package > 'pdf-viewer'; the only ones that do are 'evince', the xpdf packages, > 'kpdf', 'gv', 'kghostview', and 'viewpdf'. Is this a bug in > 'pdf-viewer'? > > Celejar That's a good question. I've seem IIRC in the mailcap db different tests for X and non-X but nothing for an FB environment. Because FB is not TUI and not GUI. And I'm not sure of a test to use to check for it. So many be it could be marked as 'Provides: pdf-viewer', but I'd expect some confusion about it. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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