Subj : Re: Sixel Gallery - Viewa
To : Codefenix
From : paulie420
Date : Thu Feb 09 2023 06:59 pm
[All great info in your reply. Appreciate all the points you posted; thanks!!]
Co> The other consideration is text quality/legibility. By converting PDF
Co> text to an image, the text won't look as sharp. By further converting it
Co> to sixel, it could look worse, especially if ImageMagick is scaling down
Co> the sixel for viewing in a typical 80x24 SyncTERM window. Maybe this
Co> isn't an issue if your source PDF is primarily image-based. But if it's
Co> text-based (but not a scanned image of text), you might consider using a
Co> tool like Poppler's pdftotext to extract the text from the PDF and
Co> display that as an alternative.
I get a similar issue w/ the PDF not being quality enough to make a [good enough] conversion to text - so your point probably applies even more; if I can't get good TEXT out of it the SIXEL conversion would probably suffer as well.
