Retrochallenge, 2005

[als at thangorodrim.de]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:43:06PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Ronald Wayne declared on Thursday 16 June 2005 11:33 pm:
> > On 6/16/05, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> 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.

Well, there is always aalib, which renders graphics using text ...

ducking and running quickly,
                          Alex.
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