[PLUG] alternatives for creating scaled, searchable pdf from plain text?

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Mon Jul 21 17:23:21 UTC 2025


On 7/15/25 09:42, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> Great hear about your success.
> 
> I almost exclusively use graphical "meld" to diff especially long (not GB
> size) files. Both SVN and Git can launch meld for rev to rev diffs.

Thanks!  meld is new to me.  It looks extremely useful.   (Why am I just 
finding out about it now?)


> For general document text searching (like Google ....) I use venerable
> Recoll. It indexes TB of stuff overnight, it can see into PDFs, archives,
> SVN/Git repos .....

I don't have an immediate need for this, but it also looks quite useful. 
  Hopefully I can find the time to give it a try.


galen
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