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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Klaus-Peter Wegge wrote in <address@hidden
c.uni-paderborn.de>:
 |On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> address@hidden wrote in <address@hidden
 |> t>:
 |>| 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.
  ...
 |Hi,
 |I'm reading most document formats with the help auf lynx and various
 |format2html tools like pdftohtml

I possibly should have pointed out that i had direct conversation
with Mr. Bell on another ML in the past, and to me he is known as
someone who hits the mark.  (He reported bugs of the software
i maintain.  Thanks again, Mr. Bell.)

 |Here is short version of my viewer script:
 |
 |---
 |#!/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"
 |
 |---
 |I have removed the cases for other formats.
 |Remark: the pdftohtml Option seem to be different on various Linuxes.
 |
 |Kluaus

lynx is a "swiss army knife" program, just like the shell.
I personally prefer plain text, if i can.  Luckily i have all my
senses in acceptable shape, that is to say, and do not need
a Braille reader, nor do i know how bad that ends up when
converting PS or PDF to plain text or HTML.  All i can imagine is
that converting via ghostscript's text output cannot be it.

--steffen
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