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Bug 477860 - sys-apps/less: lesspipe.sh doesn't work well with pdf files via `ps2ascii`
Summary: sys-apps/less: lesspipe.sh doesn't work well with pdf files via `ps2ascii`
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2013-07-23 05:47 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2016-04-06 22:21 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-07-23 05:47:58 UTC
While, reading lesspipe.sh, it should:
        *.ps|*.pdf) ps2ascii "$1" || pstotext "$1" || pdftotext "$1" ;;

The problem is that, while pdftotext looks to work for me, ps2ascii not. Maybe .pdf and .ps lines should be separated

Thanks

Portage 2.1.12.13 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.9.10-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.9.10-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2410M_CPU_@_2.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     6007596 total,    776244 free
KiB Swap:    5140476 total,   5140476 free
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:30:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.12-r1
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5, 3.2.5-r1
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.9
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.10.2-r2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          9999
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3, 4.7.2-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo bumblebee local
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n --autounmask-write"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign split-log strict test test-fail-continue unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="es_ES.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/bumblebee /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 applet avx avx256 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli colord consolekit cracklib crypt cups cvs cxx dbus djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss enchant encode evo exif fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gpm gstreamer gtk gtk3 gtkstyle http iconv infinality introspection irc jabber jpeg kpathsea latex lcms ldap libnotify libsecret libvisual lyx mad mms mmx mmxext mng modules mono monolithic-build mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network-cron networkmanager nls nptl ntfs ntp numa nvidia ogg opengl openmp optimized-qmake pam pango pch pdf png policykit ppds pulseaudio qt3support readline reiserfs scanner sdl session smp sna socialweb spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg systemd t1lib tcpd test theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upnp-av upower usb v4l vaapi vala vcd vdpau vorbis wifi wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xfs xml xv xvid youtube zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nvidia vesa intel i915 i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2013-09-13 04:57:51 UTC
ps2ascii says it handles pdfs
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2016-04-06 22:21:24 UTC
i found a pdf where ps2ascii performs badly (FreeImage3153.pdf) but pdftotext works fine.  other pdfs i've tested (e.g. gmp-man-6.1.0.pdf) showed ps2ascii working fine though.

i've tweaked the preferences for pdf files to start with pdftotext and fallback to other viewers.  this also means splitting out ps into its own section.  especially because it seems like pdftotext cannot handle ps files at all:
$ pdftotext /tmp/f.ps
Syntax Warning: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table

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