[ILUG-Cochin.org] terminal mode pdf reader

Mahesh Aravind maravind84 at yahoo.co.in
Sat Apr 18 11:46:40 IST 2009


Dear Unni,

--- On Thu, 16/4/09, unni krishnan <unnikrishnan.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is no console based pdf reader,

Are you sure?

> as far as I know. But you can convert PDF to text or html

"Ignorance is the real darkness" -- Louis Braille

Check this link:
http://www.google.com/linux?q=Viewing+PDF+files+in+console

> and can use the text/html reader in console to view it. The
> package you need to use are pdftotext and pdftohtml. 

You could instead try ggv(1)

-- Mahesh


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