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On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 15:03, Fulton Green wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:46:24PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Fulton Green wrote:
> > > I've gotten several emails in the past few days with Acrobat/PDF
> > > attachments.  Since my email reader is Mutt, accessed remotely, I don't
> > > really have an option to launch a GUI-borne PDF reader.  So has anyone
> > > out there heard of a character-mode PDF reader for full-screen consoles? 
> > 
> > There's the conversion tool, pdftotext you might check out.
> > 
> > pdftotext foo.pdf
> > 
> > generates
> > 
> > foo.txt
> 
> Thanks; that will definitely do it.  The trick now is to get Mutt to
> run it.
> 
> Mut appears to be using mailcap for content disposition.  If the files
> were being sent as application/pdf, I'd be able to get Mutt to
> automatically launch the PDF reader.  Unfortunately, the content type
> for the file is application/octet-stream, which could be pretty much
> anything.  I don't think there is a way for mailcap to tell it to "launch
> pdf2text if the file extension is .pdf".
> 
> Is there?  Anybody?
> 
> Once again, TIA.
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