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| hisacro | hello | 06:26.02 |
| mubot | Welcome to #mupdf, the channel for MuPDF. If you have a question, please ask it, don't ask to ask it. Do be prepared to wait for a reply as devs will check the logs and reply when they come on line. | 06:26.02 |
| sebras | hisacro: are you going to ask a question? | 07:41.49 |
| hisacro | @sebras yep | 09:13.46 |
| | I really tried looking documentation, and even check mutools | 09:15.14 |
| | is questions allowed or should looking into other forums? | 09:16.56 |
| kens | If you have a question, ask it, don't ask to ask. | 09:17.16 |
| hisacro | I'm trying to pipe stdout (raw pdf data) into mupdf | 09:18.15 |
| | man -Tpdf grep this generates raw pdf data | 09:19.03 |
| | can I pipe into mupdf to read stdout directly | 09:19.34 |
| kens | You can't read a PDF file from stdin. PDF is a binary format where the objects are not necessarily sequential. This means that a PDF consumer must be able to seek around within the PDF file. You can't do this taking input from stdin, so no, you can't pipe a PDF file into MuPDF. Ghostscript permits this, but it does it by writing the data from stdin to a temporary file first. | 09:21.02 |
| | I don't know if MuPDF does this, but I think it does not. | 09:21.32 |
| hisacro | well it's not pdf I'm piping it's the raw data | 09:22.34 |
| kens | You said 'genertes raw pdf data' | 09:22.52 |
| | If that's not a PDF then what is it ? | 09:22.58 |
| hisacro | it is, raw source | 09:24.50 |
| kens | What is 'raw source' ? | 09:24.59 |
| | random binary / ASCII text, image data, HTML, something else ? | 09:25.20 |
| hisacro | This option is used to change groff (or possibly troff's) output to be suitable for a de‐ | 09:26.45 |
| | vice other than the default. It implies -t. Examples (provided with Groff-1.17) include | 09:26.45 |
| | dvi, latin1, ps, utf8, X75 and X100. | 09:26.45 |
| | man -T (from man page itself) | 09:26.57 |
| kens | Still not telling me what is being output | 09:27.16 |
| hisacro | -T(pdf) so it does output pdf | 09:27.56 |
| kens | So it *is* PDF then ? In which case my earlier answer applies, you cannot stream a PDF file on stdin, because you do not have random access tot it as required. YOu cannot seek in stdin. | 09:28.35 |
| hisacro | okay thanks | 09:32.02 |
| | I was doing something similar with zathura but I get this cannot be done (I don't understand the part why, never bother) | 09:33.37 |
| kens | I imagine zathura writes the data to a temporary file, then opens that. | 09:34.18 |
| hisacro | yep it seems to store in /tmp | 09:46.34 |
| avih | oh, he left. if anyone is interested, i automated "stdin > tmp && cmd tmp && rm tmp" as shell script which i called "ifarg" https://0x0.st/iHt-.txt | 09:56.10 |
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