lessing pdfs

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

der.hans spake thusly on 208112408 ::
> moin moin,
> 
> I wanted to look at the binary content for a pdf, so I lessed it. I got
> the text of the pdf. Hmm, type $file.pdf claimed it's pdf.
> 
> cat $file.pdf | less showed it to be pdf.
> 
> Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
> 
> I verified this works on Ubuntu 6.06 ( others verified more recent
> releases ) and debian stable.
> 

Cool. I just tried it on Ubuntu 7.04.  Thanks for the tip. This will
come in handy.

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