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Bug 340467 - Reading from stdin apparently not possible
Reading from stdin apparently not possible
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-02 22:12 UTC by Sven Arvidsson
Modified: 2015-11-20 15:40 UTC
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Description Sven Arvidsson 2006-05-02 22:12:13 UTC 
This was reported to the Debian BTS.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=333332

There doesn't appear to be any way to read the data from stdin.  So
reading from a filter has to be done by messing with temporary files.

There is no indication, but it seems that - as an argument is completely
ignored. Using /proc/self/fd/0 yields a dialog (ugh) with some mime
error.

I couldn't find anything about this in any (of the little) docs either.
Comment 1 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-05-27 10:26:40 UTC 
Not sure we really need such capability. Probably gnome-vfs can have stdin scheme and buffer, no idea. That would be quite hard to implement it technically.
Comment 2 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-11-04 21:32:22 UTC 
I'm marking this WONTFIX. Poppler needs random access to a file and allowing input on stdin yields other problems as well.
Comment 3 Stuart Langridge 2008-06-02 10:25:59 UTC 
While I appreciate that this has been WONTFIXed, one nice use-case for it came up this weekend when I saw Mac people piping man pages into Preview (their display thing, like Evince) to get them nicely displayed (and use Preview's searching, which is nicer than less). It would be nice to be able to do the same with Evince.
Comment 4 duemig 2015-11-20 15:40:04 UTC 
I would love to see this implemented as well.
Using gvgen and dot, graphs in pdf-format can be generated on the fly.
It would be really nice to be able to directly pipe the output into evince.