17 Jun
2005
17 Jun
'05
5:05 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:43:06PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Ronald Wayne declared on Thursday 16 June 2005 11:33
pm:
Well, there is always aalib, which renders graphics using text ...
ducking and running quickly,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
On 6/16/05, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Considering that most of the PDF's that Tony would probably be interested
in (stuff on bitsavers, and schematics) aren't likely to have much
useful text content, that's probably not too helpful. This linux box has a text-only display, so I
can't display pdfs
on-screen. In theory I could run ghostscript to print them on my LW2
xpdf claims to have a utility to convert pdf to plain text. If memory
serves me correctly, almost all of the dependencies disappear if you
build it from source without X being present on your system.