Subj : rudimentary pdf viewing
To   : All
From : fusion
Date : Wed Mar 04 2026 03:24 am

included in the xpdf tools collection is pdftotext.exe which as the name suggests can convert pdf files to a plain text format.

https://dl.xpdfreader.com/xpdf-tools-win-4.06.zip

in mystic add an archiver:

  Extension: PDF
         OS: Windows (thought this should apply to linux with little effort)
Description: PDF View Only
   Pack Cmd: ~~~ BLANK! ~~~
 Unpack Cmd: ~~~ BLANK! ~~~
   View Cmd: c:\yourfolder\bin32\pdftotext.exe -simple "%1" "%3%2"

afterwards go in and try and view a PDF file. obviously simpler stuff will work better. you can try some of the layout parameters from pdftotext.exe:

-simple
-simple2
-layout
-table

the linux package you would find this in is titled 'poppler' !

i don't know how to teach it any better than that..

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