On Friday 03 August 2007 14:43, after a long battle with technology, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote: > der.hans spake thusly on 208112408 :: > > Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
Technically, it's not less, but lesspipe.sh. This bit me once on a system where LESSOPEN hadn't been set to its usual value of "| lesspipe.sh %s" , and I tried to "less foobar.gz" and got garbage. Take a look at lesspipe.sh to find out what it's really doing, and you can then use the same structures for your own nefarious purposes. > Cool. I just tried it on Ubuntu 7.04. Thanks for the tip. This will > come in handy. It seems to replace soft hyphens with spaces, though, which is a bit annoying. (Or the PDF I tested it on was written by morans, which is always a possibility.) -- I will rule you all with my iron fist. YOU! Obey the fist! --Invader Zim There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
