[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#702498: Bug#702498: bash-completion: xpdf should be able to get completion of compressed PDF files

[Alfredo Finelli]

Ville Skyttä [09.03.2013 10:02 +0100]:
> On 2013-03-07 14:52, Alfredo Finelli wrote:
>> The "xpdf" reader is also able to open PDF files compressed in
>> various formats (gz, bz2, xz, and Z).
>
> My xpdf (version 3.03 on Fedora 18) isn't, and I see nothing in the
> code that would implement that.

I don't know about Fedora.  I submitted the bugreport to the Debian BTS
and not upstream.  On Debian the "xpdf" executable is a wrapper script
that creates a temporary decompressed file if the user opens a
compressed PDF.

>From the Debian xpdf man page:

    You can also start xpdf without opening any files:

        xpdf

    Various compressed formats (gz, bz2, xz, and Z) are also supported, for
    example::

        xpdf file.pdf.gz

Best regards.