Some time ago I posted a message to the Speakup list regarding howto read pdf files automatically from within Lynx and come to think of it I never updated the list on my progress. In case you are interested, I did throw together a solution which works quite well for me. It is as follows: 1. Download, compile and install the pdftohtml source tarball from: http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net 2. Add the following line to your .mime.types file: application/pdf pdf 3. Add the following line to your .mailcap file: application/pdf; /usr/local/bin/pdfview %s Note: I could be wrong and haven't really looked into it, but I couldn't see a way for lynx to read a html document via standard input so I created a small shell script which will run the pdftohtml binary and launch a new lynx process. The shell script (called pdfview) follows: #!/bin/sh FILE=`echo $1 | sed 's/\/\//\//g'` /usr/local/bin/pdftohtml -q -noframes -stdout $FILE > $FILE.html lynx $FILE.html rm $FILE.html The above works quite well for me. Maybe someone can explain how lynx can read a html document via standard input and eliminate the need for the "shell script" method. Monty -------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMERGED IN THE 6o4 AREA CODE A proud user of the LINUX Operating System! ----------------------------------------------------------------------
