Re: Bring up a screen giving option to open a series of orgmode files

[Jean Louis]

* Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> [2020-12-09 18:04]:
> bind ctrl-o any endSelection "run(pdfcapture '%f' '%p' '%x' '%y' '%X' '%Y'
> '%u')"

Thank you, I just do not see where the file is writing it to? You may
see the screenshot attached, I am somebody who has thousands of
finel granular PDF references. When you already made it, let me have it.

> Certainly named options should be added to the script besides obtaining of
> actual page height. I have not checked if the script is resistant in respect
> to specially crafted file names and other such things. Do not know if
> terminal control sequences could appear in selection. Xpdf has known
> problems with handling of text encodings.
> 
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > set -e
> > > set -o pipefail
> > > 
> > > getmeta() {
> ...
> > >   # FIXME obtain page height using pdfinfo
> > >   page_height=792
> ...
> > >           pdftotext -layout -f "$page" -l "$page" \
> > >                   -x "$sel_x" -y "$((page_height - sel_Y))" -W 
> > > "$((sel_X-sel_x))" -H
>                                                          ^^^^^sel_y