Console based postscript (or pdf) viewer

[home at tristanwilliams.com]

On 17Jan09 20:35, Paul Oldham wrote:
> 
> On Sat, January 17, 2009 13:58, home at tristanwilliams.com said:
> 
> > I am having a credit crunch inspired retro moment (my laptop has died
> > and I am thus forced to use a very old one). Does anyone know of a
> > console based postscript (or pdf) viewer that will compile on a modern
> > linux distribution (Centos 5)?
> 
> Did you mean something like pdftotext - that's part of xpdf which you can
> get from here http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
> 
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> Paul
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Paul,

Many thanks for the reply. No, pdftotext is not what I am looking
for. I want a ps or pdf console viewer to see the output from Lout
(which is postscript). I have the text - I wrote it :) The laptop I am
using works very nicely in the console but creeks a little too much
for me under X.

Tristan