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Re: [Ranger-users] Previews pdf files as images.
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Hut |
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Re: [Ranger-users] Previews pdf files as images. |
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Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:06:13 +0200 |
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 07:15:14PM +0530, G Chandramouli wrote:
> Hello all,
> Sorry if this issue is already answered. I want to preview
> first page of a pdf file on console. Ranger by default uses "pdftotext".
> Can we do something like converting the first page to image (jpg or png
> format) (may be using imagemagick, which actually takes quite a time) and
> displaying it with "w3m".
>
> Thanks,
> Mouli
You need to find a program that converts PDF files into images, then
combine it with the code that was discussed in this thread:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/ranger-users/2013-07/msg00027.html
There is no out-of-the-box solution for this yet.
hut