[gentoo-user] pdf viewer for the console

[gentoo-user] pdf viewer for the console

[romildo]

Hi.

Is there any PDF viewer for the console?

Romildo

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Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer for the console

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 07:32:10 -0200
romildo@uber.com.br wrote:

> Is there any PDF viewer for the console?
You can use pdftotext, part of xpdf. But it doesn't raster the PDF, it
just extracts text that it can extract and tries to sort it in logical
order. This isn't very comfortable and you're probably losing
information this way.

If you're looking for a framebuffer solution which rasters the pages: I
didn't found one. I decided that once i have a little bit of spare time,
i'll write a framebuffer driver for ghostscript. You may raster the PDF
to images with ghostscript and view it with a image viewer, e.g. convert
a pdf to a multi-image-tiff (at fixed resolution) and use fbi/fbv to
view that. (I don't really know if those can cope with multi-image
tiffs)

HWH

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Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer for the console

[Francisco Ares]

There's "pdftohtml" and there are html frame buffer browsers.

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/   (check the samples)

Francisco


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>Hi.
>
>Is there any PDF viewer for the console?
>
>Romildo
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Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer for the console

[romildo]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 01:13:51PM +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 07:32:10 -0200 romildo@uber.com.br wrote:
> 
> > Is there any PDF viewer for the console?
> You can use pdftotext, part of xpdf. But it doesn't raster the PDF, it
> just extracts text that it can extract and tries to sort it in logical
> order. This isn't very comfortable and you're probably losing
> information this way.
> 
> If you're looking for a framebuffer solution which rasters the pages: I
> didn't found one. I decided that once i have a little bit of spare time,
> i'll write a framebuffer driver for ghostscript.

Would be nice to have such a driver for ghostscript.

Romildo

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