Is it at all possible to open a PDF as a .txt file within TextMate?
Thanks Ross
On 19 Dec 2013, at 13:55, Ross Ahmed wrote:
Is it at all possible to open a PDF as a .txt file within TextMate?
Not sure what you want here. A PDF is a binary file and it doesn’t embed its textual content as ASCII / unicode.
If however you have something that can convert a PDF to some sort of textual representation, then you can setup that to run as an import hook, when TextMate opens a PDF file. We have done this for compiled AppleScript, binary property lists, and possibly a few other binary formats that can easily be converted to text.
There's an ancient command-line tool called pdftotext that you might try here. I used it to index the text content of PDFs for a search engine. It doesn't always get all the words in the right order, but it does usually get all of the words.
Walter
On Dec 19, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 19 Dec 2013, at 13:55, Ross Ahmed wrote:
Is it at all possible to open a PDF as a .txt file within TextMate?
Not sure what you want here. A PDF is a binary file and it doesn’t embed its textual content as ASCII / unicode.
If however you have something that can convert a PDF to some sort of textual representation, then you can setup that to run as an import hook, when TextMate opens a PDF file. We have done this for compiled AppleScript, binary property lists, and possibly a few other binary formats that can easily be converted to text.
textmate mailing list textmate@lists.macromates.com http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate
-
Allan Odgaard -
Ross Ahmed -
Walter Lee Davis