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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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