Re: Viewing PDFs as text?

[Tassilo Horn]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Bastien,

> When trying to view a PDF with in a tty, `doc-view-initiate-display'
> throws an error about missing support for image, png or other
> utilities.
>
> Maybe it would be better to display the output of pdftotext directly
> in a tty.  In X Window, the default behavior would be to display the
> image when images are supported, and to fall back on pdftotext when
> not.

That would be the ideal behavior.  But looking at the code it seems
quite hard to do, especially if you want to keep most/all of doc-view's
features.

What could be done was to open a separate buffer (in fundamental-mode)
that displays the output of pdftotext.  I'll give that a try.

Bye,
Tassilo