From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Viewing PDFs as text? Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:45:03 +0100 Message-ID: <8763vs5a5c.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <7599507d-11a4-4e93-974f-5d7aa924b152@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205329563 31828 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 13:46:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:46:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 14:46:30 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 1JZRHV-0002mt-Oy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:46:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZRGw-0002so-Ry for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZRGg-0002sb-Gv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZRGe-0002rH-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZRGe-0002rE-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZRGd-00042o-TE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JZRGX-0000X7-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:45:09 +0000 Original-Received: from dslb-084-063-090-188.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.63.90.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:45:09 +0000 Original-Received: from tassilo by dslb-084-063-090-188.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:45:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-063-090-188.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CmqvMkYgONHDbjCeHT3E2Sf6enI= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:52290 Archived-At: Roland Winkler writes: Hi Roland, >> No, I'll have a look if that's easy to do. Til then you can use >> >> ! pdftotext ? - RET >> >> from within dired. > > Of course, not all pdf files are such that pdftotext can give > meaningful results. Figures and, say, formulas in a file generated > with pdflatex will be screwed up. However, fairly often I need to use > a tty. Anything that helps me along that way is greatly > appreciated. For me, one of the big advantages of emacs is that it > allows me to get the most out of a plain old tty. In emacs from the current CVS I've added a new binding C-c C-t in doc-view-mode which opens the text of the current doc in a new buffer. When on a tty a message mentions that. Bye, Tassilo