Subj : Re: rudimentary pdf viewing
To   : fusion
From : Shurato
Date : Wed Mar 04 2026 09:06 pm


 fu> On 04 Mar 2026, Shurato said the following...

 fu> Sh> I want to add this for elebbs.  What are the varuous variables short
 fu> for?

 fu> Sh>  fu> c:\yourfolder\bin32\pdftotext.exe -simple "%1" "%3%2"

pdftotext.exe -simple @ c:\ele\node*N\ I don't know...  I don't know how this
would work with RA or Ele.

Does anyone know?


 fu> %1 is the filename from the bbs %3 is the output directory and.. %2
 fu> is the temporary filename mystic expects to read in and display to the
 fu> user

 fu> the way the mystic archive viewer (old edition) works is it just provides
 fu> a filename for you to redirect the output of a program to, which would be
 fu> whichever program you use to list the files on the command line, and then
 fu> after the program exits (and assuming the file was written) it just
 fu> displays it.

 fu> if you really wanted to be tricky (and can safely expect sixel support) i
 fu> bet you could figure out how to use pdftopng (in that same archive) +
 fu> img2sixel to display the first few pages of the PDF instead :) but i'm not
 fu> gonna figure that one out hehe

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