[ale] Character-mode PDF reader?

Fletch fletch at phydeaux.org
Thu Apr 22 15:46:27 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey  <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:

    Geoffrey> Greg wrote:
    >> Would Ghostview/Ghostscript be of any use ?  I think it
    >> requires an X11 window, but I haven't played with it in a
    >> really long time.

    Geoffrey> Wrong toy, gs/gv are for reading postscript files, not
    Geoffrey> pdf.

Recent incarnations of ghostscript grok PDF fine (and can in fact
convert from one dialect to another; see ps2pdf and pdf2ps).

Not that it'd be of any use to the original querent.

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