On 6/2/25 2:03 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 13:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm over 80. My only phone just died.
I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule 5"x7"
manual.
Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals.
*HOWEVER* only BOLD text is in a saturated image.
All other text is in a marginally readable pale grey.
Is the a PDF reader in Debian repository that will coerce ALL text to
appear as a saturated black?
I assume ATT set things up to treat everything as an image.
If I get something with readable characters, all illustrations will
just
be black blobs. That is OK as paper copy that came with phone is
usable.
Also Atril can display those images adequately.
Help please.
If the PDF is images, there's (IIRC) a program called "ocrmypdf" to
turn it into text, which you can then read in your favorite editor.
There is such a file for my version of Debian.
Its webpage looked interesting.
Just installed it.
Now to read the docs ;}
If it's text in PDF, maybe LibreOffice can help.
I opened the PDF with LibreOffice DRAW.
Experimented with "Viewing" a region as "Greyscale" or "Black and White"
rather than the default of "Color" looks promising.
Time for more documentation reading ;}
If RETIREMENT isn't for learning, "What use is it?"
After my initial post, I discovered readability of the dim grey type was
in some sense easier when blew up image further by choosing "Fit Width"
rather than "Fit Height" in Atril.
THANKS
