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.
*** Bug 117450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Please also see Bug 117452 for the general case.
I suggest marking this as duplicate of http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117452
I should add, this feature should be mentioned in the usage notes output by the --help option.
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.").
Created attachment 29945 [details] Implements reading from stdin, based on code from kghostview
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.
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.
Closing as UNMAINTAINED. Also, as another poster mentioned, Okular has this feature.