Raj shekhar wrote:
> in infinite wisdom Manish Kathuria spoke thus on 12/28/05 13:08:
> 
> 
>>>You can use mc to read pdfs.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I really doubt that it will work since PDF format is meant for GUI based 
>>viewing. You will not be able to view it in text mode. The program "mc" 
>>will only try to open the document through a PDF reader (xpdf, acroread, 
>>evince, etc.) and will fail to do so since there is no graphical display.
>>
> 
> 
> No, it works - mc has a pdf viewer, however you will not be able to see 
> the graphics in the pdfs.
> 
> Start mc and then move your cursor to the file you want to view.  Click 
> on F9 (which will bring down the pulldown menu).  Move to 'File>View 
> File' .  That will open up the pdf file in the mc itself.
> 
> 
You are right. It works and displays the text extracted from the PDF 
file. Most likely it uses pdftotxt to generate the output.

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