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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: lforrestster AT gmail.com, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Xvesa Xli Images
  • Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:15:27 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lee Forrest wrote:
You can convert pdf files to text and/or images with pdfimages,
pdftotext,

Needs gs. No way.

I thought you were into tiny linux, but you seem to run every
gigantic program I've ever heard of.

pdftopbm is much smaller than gs or xpdf. gs is gigantic.

How much hdd space do you use?

You never post that.

Different on each computer. We were setting up friends with 30MB BL3 and kermit, links, links2, lynx, and Opera, but someone wanted Abiword and then I added netpbm.

On my fastest computer I have source code for two kernels, uclibc, busybox source code, and some collections of music (midi files, sheet music) and lots of photos. So about 1GB or even more.

and pdftopbm (part of netpbm). Then view with zgv or
links2 (svga-based) without X.

How many times do I have to tell you that I'm not installing
svgalib or zgv?

It appears that your video chip is not supported by svgalib (or by BL3 X, most likely).

You told me it was not possible to view images without X. I was refuting that statement, since though it may be true for your hardware it is not for any of mine. I replaced i810 video with real video cards.

For BL3 I added a very minimal
set of gs fonts

Yeh. Funny. A limited set of fonts for a gigantic application.

I did NOT add gs, just a set of 12 basic fonts from gs (I could possibly have gotten them from some place else instead but I had gs) which is needed by the pdftopbm convertor to product a plain pbm image file that you can then view with a viewer, probably even XLI, since it is monochrome. 381K .tgz package (probably at my site, pdf-noX-fonts.tgz) includes all three convertors, a minimal set of fonts (plain, italic, bold, italic/bold- I included three sets tho one would probably do it), the xpdfrc file you need to use the convertors without the enormous full gs font set, and a few doc/man files. It would be smaller without CHANGES but that looked interesting.

This package works in BL3 to read the newer pdf 1.5. The SW8.1 gs does not even read it (or work in BL3, wrong libX11). xpdf3.0 does not work with BL3 X, but you may need to upgrade your X anyway to work with your video chip. xpdf3 is much larger than my package. I got the convertors out of the xpdf big package at their site (they come with xpdf itself but
can be used without X).

3.5M for just the basic package on SW4.0

You are referring to gs itself, not pdftopbm with a few fonts.

The SW4.0 GS is ten times as big as what I put together, and my package includes the convertors for making pdf files into images and/or text.



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I just deleted a lot of irrelevant paragraphs above about xli.
Please remove such stuff yourself.


Lee

Sindi





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