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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