Re: [Lynx-dev] Displaying a pdf live on the Fly?

[Klaus-Peter Wegge]

Hi,
I'm reading most document formats with the help auf lynx and various
format2html tools like pdftohtml

Here is short version of my viewer script:

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#!/bin/sh

dir=/tmp/$USER/viewer.$$
mkdir -p $dir
doc=$1

case $doc in
   *.pdf) file=`basename "$doc" .pdf`;
          echo Portable Document Format: $doc;
          html="$file"_ind.html;
          pdftohtml -nodrm -hidden -enc Latin1 "$doc" "$dir"\/"$file"
   *.vcl) file=`basename "$doc" .vcl`;
          echo Calendar: $doc;
          html="$file.txt";
          vcal "$doc" >"$dir/$html";
          show="$dir/$html";;
   *) echo eror;
          exit 0;;
esac

lynx -nolist file://localhost"$show"
rm -rf "$dir"

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I have removed the cases for other formats.
Remark: the pdftohtml Option seem to be different on various Linuxes.

Kluaus

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:

> address@hidden wrote in <address@hidden>:
> | I use:
> |
> | pdftotext -layout %s - | utf8trans UTFtoASCII
>
> Yes, Mr. Bell, luckily it has that -layout argument.
> Whereas mupdf (now) comes with mutool, which can "convert", that
> pdftotext from poppler with its -layout is the only PDF (and thus
> PS) converter i know who does an acceptable job.
>
> --steffen
> |
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