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.
evince gives much nicer output, but for the times when I just want a quick
view of the content or want to search for a string it'll be great to use
less!
ciao,
der.hans
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