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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:59:33AM -0400, sindi keesan wrote:
> There is a pdf2html which displays images as well as text.
> Slackware 7.1 has an xpdf package for xpdf 0.90.
> There is a newer version (2.02) at
> ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-2.02-linux.tar.gz
> 
> I was surprised to find that it was compiled for Kernel 2.2 and glibc
> 2.1.3.  It is about 6M.  

Very big. It should about 1-2M. Maybe it includes fonts.

> 
> Can someone with the Slackware 7.1 CDs post the pdftotext file?  There is

This component should be 200-300k.

> also pdftopbm if you want to see the images separately.  You would need
> something that views pbm images - does zgv?  The DOS port of pdftopbm (by

Yes.

> Doug Kaufman) is not as reliable as ghostscript - it messes up some
> pdf images in complicated format.  
> 
> 
> If nobody has the CDs I can download the 6M xpdf package to a friend's
> server (connected to a 27K/sec DSL line) and extract the file there.  The
> DOS version (as found in Arachne, and I think also posted somewhere) is
> 170K. 

Does it run in 16 bit DOS?

> 
> Has anyone tried ghostscript (console version) as a pdf viewer for lynx?

Moreover, can it be run without X?

> 
> I also have Lynx set up (at my bbs) to use Links as a downloader - if you
> hit a page with frames or tables and want to view it with Links, you
> download the page and Links appears on the list of choices (save to home
> directory, mail it, print it, view with links...).  This loads links
> automatically for you, views the page, and unloads it, I think.  
> 
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