Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: rudimentary pdf viewing
From:    Codefenix(21:4/141)
Date:    Thu Mar 05, 2026 16:50

  Re: Re: rudimentary pdf viewing
  By: Shurato to fusion on Wed Mar 04 2026 09:06 pm

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

 Sh> Does anyone know?

Not sure what your goals are, but if you're hoping to make PDF documents presentable on your BBS in a nice, viewable fashion, then I'm sorry to say, I think you're going to be disappointed.

Text extracted from PDFs using pdftotext.exe loses much of the presentation that the source PDF has. I use it at work for scraping data from PDF documents (i.e.: make a temporary text file from the tool and then parse the results), and we only do that in a very limited capacity.

It's not really meant for making permanent text renditions of PDF files for human consumption.

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