>> Hi All: I am realizing it would be easier to have lynx display pdfs >> basicly like any other texts.
This would be difficult; a few PDFs aren't text at all, and many more aren't just text. How much you lose by keeping just the text can be anything on the spectrum from nothing to everything. >> Anyway we tried modifying my dot mailcap file, like this >> application/pdf; less "%s" >> Well, lynx said it may be a binary, see it anyway? It was a mess. Yes. Most PDFs in my experience have most of their data compressed, so they are "binary junk" when looked at with tools that don't understand PDF structure and the compression method(s) in question. >> So can [someone] please inform an easy way of doing this, or would I >> need an external? In full generality, there is no easy way. You will need _something_ that understands the strtucture of PDFs. Even for just a "most cases" converter, you probably will need something that knows enough about PDF structure to decompress compressed content. There is a package, xpdf, which I picked up a decade ago from ftp.foolabs.com (I don't know whether it's available anywhere these days; I can make what I have available if it would help); it includes a PDF-to-text converter which works well enough to be useful in some cases for me. There may well be something better knocking around by now; this is just the one I happen to know of. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev