From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Viewing PDFs as text?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:43:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skyxk8nb.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7599507d-11a4-4e93-974f-5d7aa924b152@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Alan <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
! pdftotext ? - RET
will show the text in a new buffer.
> There is a doc-view.el facility, that seems too complicated for me.
It's not complicated. Just hit v on the file in dired. But doc-view.el
works only if you run an x11 emacs.
Bye,
Tassilo
--
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs,
by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use
of these programs. (Richard M. Stallman)
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-10 20:52 Viewing PDFs as text? Alan
2008-03-10 22:59 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.8684.1205189951.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-11 3:42 ` Roland Winkler
2008-03-11 7:45 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.8699.1205221811.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-11 13:11 ` Roland Winkler
2008-03-12 13:45 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-13 3:37 ` Bastien
2008-03-13 9:29 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-13 10:09 ` Bastien
2008-03-13 10:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-13 18:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-13 18:45 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-03-13 11:49 ` Emacs 23 and msb.el Guy Durrieu
2008-11-06 6:36 ` Emacs 23: strange character display Guy Durrieu
2008-11-06 7:48 ` Paul R
2008-11-06 13:12 ` Guy Durrieu
[not found] ` <mailman.8756.1205329519.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-12 15:38 ` Viewing PDFs as text? Roland Winkler
2008-03-18 22:47 ` Roland Winkler
2008-03-19 10:09 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-19 14:48 ` Roland Winkler
2008-03-19 21:08 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.9221.1205960921.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-19 23:54 ` Roland Winkler
2008-03-20 20:25 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-26 0:05 ` Roland Winkler
[not found] ` <87eiyqpjg1.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>
2009-01-26 19:14 ` Samuel Wales
2009-01-26 19:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-26 19:52 ` Samuel Wales
2009-01-26 20:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-26 20:47 ` Samuel Wales
2009-01-27 9:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-26 22:28 ` Roland Winkler
2009-01-27 9:33 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-26 22:28 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-27 9:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-11 7:43 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2008-03-11 8:07 ` Tim X
2008-03-20 6:19 ` Alan
2008-03-20 8:50 ` Tim X
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