Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:40:31 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <stdin@niklaas.eu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading PDFs on the command line (with misc/lesspipe) Message-ID: <20160629134031.e8b13544.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20160629102945.GA24197@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu> References: <20160629102945.GA24197@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu>
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:29:45 +0200, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff wrote: > Since I use mutt to read emails on my server, I would like to > read PDFs on the command line. How can I do that? I'm using the pdftotext command, part of the xpdf package. Its output can be redirected. > I installed misc/lesspipe and -- as far as I can judge -- > configured it properly. > > $ echo $LESSOPEN > |/usr/local/bin/lesspipe.sh %s > > However, if I run > > $ less some.pdf > > I still get an unreadable output of fancy symbols. Probably there is no processing step included? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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