From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Viewing PDFs as text? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:59:03 +0100 Message-ID: <4C7344F5-CB59-4CA3-8F74-0314361D824B@Web.DE> References: <7599507d-11a4-4e93-974f-5d7aa924b152@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205189989 32726 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 22:59:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Alan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 00:00:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYqye-0002H7-CV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYqy6-0001m6-5R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:59:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYqxZ-0001fX-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYqxY-0001er-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYqxX-0001ej-Sm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYqxX-00022E-16 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E305D6675EC; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:59:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [195.4.204.11] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1JYqxV-00029e-00; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:59:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <7599507d-11a4-4e93-974f-5d7aa924b152@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/drwWyqjJplwRfW4lhof/L6Wk4kZRNABcAZiUB RfdIfzp9VmY/tDOaU4zaNSJPIMyU9pHA3ELJYU3jQ9Ts0CHRky BS99tMaDJy5ZcH2PJiJw== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52238 Archived-At: Am 10.03.2008 um 21:52 schrieb Alan: > There is a doc-view.el facility, that seems too complicated for me. What is too complicated? By typing v on a PDF file I can see it a bit later, after background conversion to PNG format. The other option, without doc-view, is, for example: ! pdtotext RET -- Greetings Pete _o o o o _<< \\_/\_, \\_ \\_/\_, (*)/(*) (*) (*) (*) `- (*)