[linux-audio-user] re: la.org "libre" articles in PDF

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+la at mega-nerd.com
Sat Oct 29 06:11:11 EDT 2005


carmen wrote:

> hi, sorry to be miserable about this, but i cant read these articles right
> now, maybe theres a way to pass them to google somehow to decode to text for
> reading in links, or pipe thru some cmdline util, but seriously, PDF is not
> a 'libre' format last i checked....

PDF is no more or less libre than WAV, AIFF and AU however, like those
formats there are Free Software tools for reading and writing PDF.

For viewing, try xpdf (GPL).

Erik
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