Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: rudimentary pdf viewing
From:    fusion(21:1/616)
Date:    Wed Mar 04, 2026 18:50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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