PDF rendering

[arisolt]

Chromium uses the library Pdfium for rendering PDFs. Opening either a local or remote PDF file with carbonyl doesn't seem to work, just a blank screen.

./carbonyl "https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2020-01/sample.pdf"

I was hoping to use carbonyl to view PDFs in the terminal. Can this be enabled?

[Emasoft]

I think it would be useless. Pdfium converts (rasterize) the PDF text to a bitmap image to display it. And images in carbonyl have a resolution limited by the current terminal screen size (the number of rows and columns). So unless your term client window can display a 1024 columns and 768 rows screen, you are getting just blurry lines instead of text.
Maybe you need a custom version of Pdfium using Carbonyl internally to render the pdf text, but that would need a lot of work. What about using a PdF to html converter first?

[arisolt]

What about using a PdF to html converter first?

Thanks, that's a very good idea!