Re: Okular PDF viewer

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:07:17 -0700 Van Snyder wrote: Hello Van, >Where does okular keep its settings? In ~/.config/ Look for files; okularrc okularpartrc okular-generator-popplerrc -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Re: Okular PDF viewer

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 09:12 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 03/06/2025 05:15, Van Snyder wrote: > > I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of > > the > > standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently > > have. > > > > Lately when I do a search or click a

Re: Okular PDF viewer

On 03/06/2025 05:15, Van Snyder wrote: I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't display the correct page. Is this a known bu

clip on / flip up reading glasses (was: Re: PDF viewer for elderly)

On Tuesday, June 03, 2025 03:49:49 AM Chris Green wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > ROFL - Been wearing tri-focals since my 30's. > > Also have wicked astigmatism correct that eliminates trying to use "off > > the shelf" "reading glasses". I also wear trifocals, and have astigmatism. They make

Re: Okular PDF viewer

Jun 3, 2025, 08:15 by van.sny...@sbcglobal.net: > That works fine for me too. But as I wrote the problem arises when I search > for something, or click on an internal link in the document, such as a > bibliographic citation or figure number or equation number. It used to work > fine until a few

Re: Okular PDF viewer

On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 06:06 +0200, local10 wrote: > On 3/6/25 06:15, Van Snyder wrote: > > > > I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part > > > of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I > > > currently have. > > > > > > Lately when I do a search or click a

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/2/25 2:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses > >> might help. > > > > I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about > > reading glasses. 🙂 > > > > ROFL - Been wearing tri-focals

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

On Mon 02 Jun 2025 at 21:28:50 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> > 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

Re: Okular PDF viewer

On 3/6/25 06:15, Van Snyder wrote: >> I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the >> standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. >> >> Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't >> display the correct page. Is this a

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

On Mon 02 Jun 2025 at 21:28:50 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > 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 whic

Re: Okular PDF viewer

On 3/6/25 06:15, Van Snyder wrote: I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't display the correct page. Is this a known bug? O

Okular PDF viewer

I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't display the correct page. Is this a known bug? Or is it a feature? Thanks for mentioni

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

On 3/6/25 03:44, Richard Owlett wrote: If RETIREMENT isn't for learning, "What use is it?" I believe that the whole of life is an education, for people willing to learn. "The more we know, the more we know the little we know." .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800)

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 14:44 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > 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. Try settings like +200% in Okular.

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

Richard Owlett wrote: > 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 ma

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

On 6/2/25 2:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses might help. I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about reading glasses. 🙂 ROFL - Been wearing tri-focals since my 30's. Also have wicked astigmatism correct

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

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 saturat

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

On 3/6/25 03:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses might help. I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about reading glasses. 🙂 Stefan Sometimes, the obvious might not occur to us. Due to a persistent

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

> Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses > might help. I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about reading glasses. 🙂 Stefan

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

On 3/6/25 02:39, 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 p

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

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 i

PDF viewer for elderly

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

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

> Try xpdf, but be aware it doesn't support forms nor other special stuff > in PDF like video. qpdfview is awfully simple. #apt install qpdfview (does well with trixie and sid) It prints well with CUPS that provides a driver for my Kyocera FS-920 b&w laser printer. That printer is 15 years old.

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 12/6/23 9:06 PM, Bert Riding wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:30:01 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very infrequently in any case. In zathura :print brings up the Gtk+ prin

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:30:01 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can > print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very > infrequently in any case. In zathura :print brings up the Gtk+ print dialog.

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 06/12/2023 12:14, tomas wrote: Debian Bullseye here. Xpdf links against libpoppler102, which has GPLv2 or V3, same as xpdf. Perhaps fact checking of the following is required. Gnome forked xpdf to have a library (poppler) for a PDF viewer (evince). For security reasons Debian maintainers

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 06:14:00 +0100 wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:01:37PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: [...] I've used Xpdf from Arch, and it's an entirely different program. My understanding was that the Arch version depended on poppler. I can only imagine that the version in Debian is

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:01:37PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: [...] > I've used Xpdf from Arch, and it's an entirely different program. My > understanding was that the Arch version depended on poppler. I can only > imagine that the version in Debian is different because there is a > licensing is

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 12:09:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 05/12/2023 18:30, Tom Browder wrote: > > When I manually print via Evince It seems to sometimes change important > > settings like page scaling and orientation. > > I had an impression that GUI print dialog may remember some settin

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

useful. > The following seems to list most of the various programs discussed in this > thread, plus a > couple of others: > apt-cache search pdf-viewer Thanks so much Mike! And also many thanks to all my Debian friends who answered. I think my side of this thread is done now. "Merry Christmas to all and t all a good night!" -Tom

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 6/12/23 01:09, Max Nikulin wrote: I believed that CUPS stack is based on PDF while earlier PostScript was used. I recently wrote a  user space CUPS driver for a thermal printer. At the point I get to process the print data it has already been rasterised into a bitmap. My impression is

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 05/12/2023 18:30, Tom Browder wrote: When I manually print via Evince It seems to sometimes change important settings like page scaling and orientation. I had an impression that GUI print dialog may remember some settings from its previous invocation. Unsure if it is relevant to evince. I

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 12/5/23 6:23 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very infrequently in any case. I do a lot of printing from zathura but have had trouble setting up print preview.. Paul

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very infrequently in any case. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 17:12 Tom Browder wrote: > I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many I see I need to read the CUPS man page more closely. It looks like it has most all of the answers I need for my current situation. Thanks to all who responded. Happy Christ

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 01:14 Marco Moock wrote: > Am 04.12.2023 um 17:12:28 Uhr schrieb Tom Browder: > > > I would like to use another program which is similar but has good > > documentation. I don't need a heavy duty program like LibreOffice, > > Just something for viewing and printing. > > Try

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 02:06 Paul M Foster wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 05:12:28PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many > > years. It still works, but it has been spitting out error messages for > >

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 05:12:28PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to use another program which is similar but has good > documentation. I don't need a heavy duty program like LibreOffice, > Just something for viewing and printing. > Hi Tom: I recommend Okular. Has KDE dependencies, but IM

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to use another program which is similar but has good > documentation. I don't need a heavy duty program like LibreOffice, > Just something for viewing and printing. Don't know, if it fits your requirements, but I'm using frequently: chromium Though chromium is a

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 17:12:28 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many years. It still works, but it has been spitting out error messages for a very long time. to wit: (evince:81435): EvinceView-CRITICAL **: 16:44:57.520

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

Am 04.12.2023 um 17:12:28 Uhr schrieb Tom Browder: > I would like to use another program which is similar but has good > documentation. I don't need a heavy duty program like LibreOffice, > Just something for viewing and printing. Try xpdf, but be aware it doesn't support forms nor other special

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

Am 04.12.2023 um 19:19:37 Uhr schrieb Paul M Foster: > Don't think it has a CLI interface. However, I would imagine that > simply feeding a PDF to the printer should work for printing. I could > be wrong, though. IIRC that depends on the printer. Simply running lpr file.pdf didn't work for my pr

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On 12/4/23 19:20, Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 05:12:28PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many years. It still works, but it has been spitting out error messages for a very long time. to wit: (evince:81435): EvinceView

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

Also, before I started using evince, I used to use gv (based on ghostview) quite a bit. The following seems to list most of the various programs discussed in this thread, plus a couple of others: apt-cache search pdf-viewer mrc

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Mon 04/12/2023 at 23:12, Tom Browder wrote: > I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many > years. It still works, but it has been spitting out error messages for > a very long time. to wit: > > (evince:81435): EvinceView-CRITICAL *

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 05:12:28PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many > years. It still works, but it has been spitting out error messages for > a very long time. to wit: > > (evince:81435): EvinceView-CRITICAL *

Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many years. It still works, but it has been spitting out error messages for a very long time. to wit: (evince:81435): EvinceView-CRITICAL **: 16:44:57.520: \ ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list: \ assertion

Re: why pdf viewer is missing in firefox for bullseye?

Thank Cater! actually firefox for debian 11 can view my local pdf file maybe those web sites with PDF files set MIME type incorrectly

Re: why pdf viewer is missing in firefox for bullseye?

On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 04:02:44PM -0500, lou wrote: > how to install pdf plugin? > > firefox for old debian distro can open pdf file > > > According to the Firefox release notes from Mozilla, firefox now includes its own pdf viewer - click on the link or open it in you

why pdf viewer is missing in firefox for bullseye?

how to install pdf plugin? firefox for old debian distro can open pdf file

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

On 2011-11-17, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > As I can not does that from evince itself, I did it from the File Manager: so > far it works. > > Is there a way to set it system wise rather than per user ? > What I found after googling for five seconds: You can create /usr/share/applications/defaults

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

On 2011-11-17, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Install epdfview. > > I have just tried it: > it appears that it can not open attachments. > Mail attachments? What happens? What are you trying to do, and with what (other) program? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > On 17/11/11 17:37, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> >>> Hello List: >>> >>> Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault >>> viewer for PDF files is now GIMP

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer > for PDF files is now GIMP: > I would rather expect acrobat or evince. > > Where is the place to fix this ? Install epdfview. Please chec

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

On 17/11/11 17:37, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? I

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 17:31 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello: > > > On 17/11/11 17:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT > > wrote: > >> Hello List: > >> > >> Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer > >> for PDF file

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

Hello: On 17/11/11 17:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ?

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer > for PDF files is now GIMP: > I would rather expect acrobat or evince. > > Where is the place to fix this ? Right-click on the document, choose "Pro

Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

On Lu, 11 apr 11, 13:05:36, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > Solves the vi/vim "how do I read in text" problem as well: > > > >:r !xp > > That's quite a bit better than what I was doing before: > > :r!cat ^D If you don't mind installing the -gtk or -gnome version of vim you can just :put f

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 03:00:03PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 14:46 Sat 09 Apr, Joel Roth (jo...@pobox.com) wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:22:04PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh > > > wrote: > > >

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

on 14:46 Sat 09 Apr, Joel Roth (jo...@pobox.com) wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:22:04PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh > > wrote: > > > > > Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE &g

Command-line X selection/clipboard tool (was: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?)

* 2011-04-09T14:46:07-10:00 * Joel Roth wrote: > xclip! how is it I didn't know about you for so long? Another similar utility is xsel which seems to have a bit nicer set of command-line options (like "-b" for using clipboard). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:22:04PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh > wrote: > > > Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that > > can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that > can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of text from > the PDF document to the clip-board? > Install pdfgrep and xclip. You

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

Brian wrote, on 10/04/11 01:39: On Sun 10 Apr 2011 at 01:22:21 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Thanks, right again. From the manual page: Dragging with the right mouse button selects an area and copies the enclosed text to the clipboard buffer. I generally just paste with the middle mouse button

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

On Sun 10 Apr 2011 at 01:22:21 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Thanks, right again. From the manual page: > > Dragging with the right mouse button selects an area and copies the > enclosed text to the clipboard buffer. I generally just paste with the middle mouse button but Parcellite, with Use Pr

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

Brian wrote, on 09/04/11 23:40: On Sat 09 Apr 2011 at 20:50:55 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Thanks, the '/' command in mupdf 'just works'. Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that can both search for text across line breaks and allows copy

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

On Sat 09 Apr 2011 at 20:50:55 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Thanks, the '/' command in mupdf 'just works' . > > Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE > that can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of >

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

Brian wrote, on 09/04/11 18:33: On Sat 09 Apr 2011 at 15:13:55 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian unstable but don't have GNOME or KDE 4 installed. Can anyone suggest a Free PDF viewer that can search for text phrases that may be broken by a line break in the or

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

On Sat 09 Apr 2011 at 15:13:55 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I'm running Debian unstable but don't have GNOME or KDE 4 installed. > > Can anyone suggest a Free PDF viewer that can search for text phrases > that may be broken by a line break in the original PDF? Mup

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

Op 09-04-11 07:52, Hans-J. Ullrich schreef: > Am Samstag, 9. April 2011 schrieb Arthur Marsh: >> Hi, I'm running Debian unstable but don't have GNOME or KDE 4 installed. >> >> Can anyone suggest a Free PDF viewer that can search for text phrases >> that

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

Am Samstag, 9. April 2011 schrieb Arthur Marsh: > Hi, I'm running Debian unstable but don't have GNOME or KDE 4 installed. > > Can anyone suggest a Free PDF viewer that can search for text phrases > that may be broken by a line break in the original PDF? > > I'

Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

Hi, I'm running Debian unstable but don't have GNOME or KDE 4 installed. Can anyone suggest a Free PDF viewer that can search for text phrases that may be broken by a line break in the original PDF? I've tried xpdf and evince-gtk and neither seem to offer that capability.

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

On Lu, 03 ian 11, 18:09:31, Brian wrote: > On Mon 03 Jan 2011 at 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything usefu

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

On Tue 04 Jan 2011 at 08:49:23 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I don't know about fitplot, but I found that xpdf would not print > landscape pages correctly; they came out as portrait. But evince does it > without problems. Works for me with a simple lpr -PLaserJet-600 in xpdf's print dialogue.

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

On 03 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. > > I don't see that o

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

On Mon 03 Jan 2011 at 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. > > lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf > > does what I ne

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. I don't see that option under Evince, yep. But maybe you can give Evince

PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

Hi, Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf does what I need, but a GUI is needed for clicky-type users. The software should be free and apt-get-able, and

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 16:04:31 +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote: > On 4/17/06, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maxim Vexler wrote: > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when > > > opening pdf files from FireFox.

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

On 4/17/06, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maxim Vexler wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when > > opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is > > /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

Maxim Vexler wrote: Hello everyone. I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. [...] Place these lines in your ~/.mailcap file: application/pdf; /usr/bin/e

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

On Sunday 16 April 2006 2:19 pm, Maxim Vexler so eloquently stated: > Hello everyone. > > I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when > opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is > /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. > I'm using Debian stabl

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

Maxim Vexler wrote: > I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when > opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is > /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. When you click on a link to pdf file and the dialog pops up, you can click on the "Open wi

How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

Hello everyone. I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. I'm using Debian stable w/ backports.org. FireFox version 1.5.0.1 @ Gnome 2.8.3 as my desktop environ

Can I make epiphany use other than gnome default pdf viewer?

I would like to be able to use another pdf-viewer than the default gnome pdf-viewer that the epiphany web browser comes set up with. I did a standard debian 3.1r1 install, which gave me epiphany 1.4.8 Is it possible to configure epiphany to change its pdf-viewer? I can't figure this out

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ok, then. I think I'm going to stick with Acrobat Reader. Thanks for the help, Ricardo Diz On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > I wanted to know what is the

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> apt-get install acroread > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > > > > Hi there! > > > > > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I inst

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I use acroread, and it works fine :-) apt-get install acroread On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I insta

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > Hi there! > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed > Acrobat Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. Acrobat Reader is actually the best of them by far. It renders legibly, doesn't crash that I

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At 12:45 AM 10/4/01 +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote: >Hi there! > >I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed Acrobat >Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. > >Is gnome-gv a better solution? > xpdf is superb within it's limitations

PDF viewer...

Hi there! I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed Acrobat Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. Is gnome-gv a better solution? Regards, Ricardo Diz P.S. I'm looking for an pleasent viewer to go with my Enlightenment wm :))

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Rich Morin > > Personally to read .pdf files from the screen I really like the acroread > package. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to print, but gv worked like a > charm. I can't say exactly why, but the fonts are much cleaner, and > readable in acroread, for me anyways. Just a wild guess: ha

Re: ps, pdf viewer

On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > I believe somebody else already told you you were wrong there. > But if you want a not-so-good, but much faster pdf viewer > than gv+gs-aladdin, you may want to try xpdf. > > > > > > > On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick M

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so-good, but much faster pdf viewer than gv+gs-aladdin, you may want to try xpdf. > > > On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > > > Debian has the GhostView and GV packages, but which does everyone l

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Hi, Look in the ~/non-free for gs-aladdin_4.0* Cheers, David On 31-May-97 Matthew Tebbens wrote: >Well, I did install GV and it does look good! >GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. >Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... >Time for an updated GS p

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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Well, I did install GV and it does look good! > GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. > Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... > Time for an updated GS package!? :) Oh, you want to install gs-aladdin_4.03-7.deb from non

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> > Well, I did install GV and it does look good! > GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. > Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... > Time for an updated GS package!? :) Go for gs-aladdin in non-free. It is 4.03 Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

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Well, I did install GV and it does look good! GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... Time for an updated GS package!? :) On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > Debian ha

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