From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Viewing PDFs as text? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7599507d-11a4-4e93-974f-5d7aa924b152@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205186644 21863 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 22:04:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:04:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 23:04:30 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 1JYq6K-0003it-Gy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:04:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYq5m-0006L9-0G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:03:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.88.84.208 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205182338 21619 127.0.0.1 (10 Mar 2008 20:52:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.88.84.208; posting-account=wcF3XAoAAADpxbRZm2Z27inMlnZjMIWc User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008021416 Firefox/3.0b3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156860 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:03:19 -0400 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:52234 Archived-At: Less (via lesspipe, I think) is able to read pdf files as text, using pdftotext. It would be much easier for me to browse pdfs using emacs. I would like to do this from dired. There is a doc-view.el facility, that seems too complicated for me. Did I misunderstand that, or is it possible in some other way to view pdfs from dired, as text? Thank you for any ideas. Alan Davis