Open pdf page command line

How to open a PDF file from terminal? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 8 months ago. Active 3 years, 5 months ago. Viewed k times. I used to work on the Mac terminal before and I used: open file2open. When I use it in the terminal in Ubuntu I get this error message: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console.

Improve this question. Knowledge Cube Ubuntu is not Mac just pointing that out. Roland but mac claims to be a unix based system, so I assumed the terminal would behave the same atleast — yayu. Linux is not Unix. Linux is what Unix wanted to be, when it was growing up. You can use fbi Linux frame buffer image viewer apt-get -y install fbi fbgs arch. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Most desktop environments generic xdg-open file2open. Improve this answer. David Foerster So there is absolutely no way to view the text of a pdf file inside the terminal?

That is another question. You can view with less. Loading page content. User profile for user: PeterBreis PeterBreis You need to better describe the content and what you mean by "update it". If it is just or mainly text you can export the text from Acrobat as a word or text file, with varying success depending how it was laid up.

You can also select text to copy and paste from the Preview application. This is now much easier in Snow Leopard where Preview can intelligently determine text in columns. To access images in the. If you are looking at just getting them into Pages as they are and don't need to change them from their graphical form, all you need to do is divide them into individual one page per.

In Leopard you can do this by dragging from the thumbnail of the. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Sep 20, PM in response to PeterBreis In response to PeterBreis The doc is a historical doc autobiography which has some typos to correct, and also to add new text.

I can find no way to export from "Adobe Reader". You've been very helpful. Thank you a LOT. User profile for user: Henrik Holmegaard Henrik Holmegaard. Sep 20, PM in response to Donep In response to Donep The doc is a historical doc autobiography which has some typos to correct, and also to add new text.

Author as well as audience have to acquire Microsoft Word in order to access. Blobonat, how does it help? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Is there a similar solution for printing a specific page? There is no option to print a specific page.

See below for a list of the possible command line options. These are unsupported command lines, but have worked for some developers. If you are using Acrobat, substitute Acrobat. DavidPostill DavidPostill 7, 9 9 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. ImageMagick can extract specific page s of PDF documents as images, so if you want to print page 3, you could use the following command bearing in mind that it counts from page ZERO : magick file.

Mark Setchell Mark Setchell k 22 22 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. CreateObject "WScript. Sleep objShell. AppActivate "Print" objShell. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.