Bug 117449

Summary:	kpdf should read files from stdin with the - option
Product:	[Unmaintained] kpdf	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Albert Astals Cid <aacid>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	matthew.flaschen
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Implements reading from stdin, based on code from kghostview

Description Tristan Miller 2005-12-01 19:03:19 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages

kghostview will read a postscript file from stdin when the - option is used.  Example:

$ antiword -pa4 -m8859-1 somefile.doc | kghostview -

However, kpdf will not do likewise for PDF files in stdin:

$ antiword -aa4 -m8859-1 somefile.doc | kpdf -

Please fix this so that kpdf will read from stdin.  Obviously, the file should not appear in the "Open recent" menu.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2005-12-01 19:38:21 UTC

*** Bug 117450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Chris Bainbridge 2006-06-04 17:23:33 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3 Tristan Miller 2007-06-16 11:00:45 UTC

Please also see Bug 117452 for the general case.

Comment 4 Raúl 2007-06-17 02:07:30 UTC

I suggest marking this as duplicate of http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117452

Comment 5 Tristan Miller 2008-11-20 13:03:43 UTC

I should add, this feature should be mentioned in the usage notes output by the --help option.

Comment 6 Matthew Flaschen 2009-01-05 22:00:10 UTC

I implemented this, basically along the lines of kghostview.  A patch is attached.  It doesn't include any documentation since I didn't know how that was done; however, it should just be a line or two (e.g "If - is used in place of a file, KPDF will read a PDF from standard in.").

Comment 7 Matthew Flaschen 2009-01-05 22:03:13 UTC

Created attachment 29945 [details]
Implements reading from stdin, based on code from kghostview

Comment 8 Albert Astals Cid 2009-01-05 23:02:59 UTC

kpdf is in deep maitainance mode, just critical bugfixes so i'm not going to add this feature to kpdf sorry.

On the other hand okular already implements this feature.

Comment 9 Matthew Flaschen 2009-01-05 23:13:55 UTC

Oh, sorry to hear that.  If you are not willing to reconsider (it's really small, non-disruptive code), perhaps you could close this as WONTFIX.

Comment 10 Tristan Miller 2010-03-05 15:54:31 UTC

Closing as UNMAINTAINED.  Also, as another poster mentioned, Okular has this feature.