Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-08-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:29 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24): Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html They

TARDY response -- [Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]]

2024-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:22 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files  to a number of different formats, including .html They provide audio, mobi, and  co

Re: PDF editor

2024-08-07 Thread coreyh
On 2024-08-07 09:27, Arbol One wrote: Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? do you mean CLI or windows tool for PDF editor? -- corey hickman

Re: PDF editor

2024-08-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 21:27:00 (-0400), Arbol One wrote: > Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? Perhaps you could summarise what you learnt, and what you feel you didn't learn, from the thread that you opened here six weeks ago. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/06/msg00667.html

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Richard
qpdf is good for e.g. removing any password protection - given you know the password. But I kinda doubt that's what's meant with editor. And quite frankly, you can do most of what qpdf does more comfortably with tools like PDFSam or PDF Arranger. The latter even lets you crop pages or rename the do

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Franco Martelli
On 24/06/24 at 00:50, Arbol One wrote: Hello. Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? Time ago I used Qpdf to delete some pages in a .pdf, for a quick description: ~$ apt show qpdf in the manual there are some command examples, I used these command to edit a pdf: - To dele

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 08:01:26PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ > > It looks nice. > But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ It looks nice. But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be careful to run it outside of an isolated VM (which is actually true for most clos

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
I wouldn't say PDFs are bad for visually impaired users. In fact, as bitmap fonts are thankfully a thing of the past for almost everywhere, you can zoom any document to your hearts desire. Though sometimes you need some tricks, e.g. Evince is configured to only use 50 MB of storage by default for c

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Nicolas George
Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24): > Good afternoon. > I am providing another option that might help here. > robobraille, > > www.robobraille.org > Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number > of different formats, including .html > They provide audio, mobi, and conver

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Karen Lewellen
Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html They provide audio, mobi, and convert epub files too..but I digress. As a test,

Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:35 AM, Richard wrote: Hello, this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for anything else. ... Second sentence should read: ... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL* vi

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/6/24 13:35, Richard wrote: So your best bet is just to try to never have to edit a PDF at all. Always try to get a hand on the original file the PDF was delivered from. Even if it's a docx In my view, pdf and docx shoud be regarded as publication formats for content managed in a pro

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-24 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM Arbol One wrote: > Hello. > Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ Thanks. > -- > *ArbolOne.ca* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of > students

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-23 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Arbol One wrote: > Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? It's depending on what you understand under "edit", and whether you expect to use Free Open Source Software (FOSS) or not. If you just want to fill out forms (JavaScript), then I'd recommend the FOSS programs: chromium bro

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-23 Thread Richard
Hello, this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for anything else. Even filling out forms is just s bad hackjob through JavaScript. That being said, there is software with PDF editing capabilities

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > Apart from Windows-derived GDI printers, the majority of laser > and inkjet printers have a PostScript interpreter built in, even > if its primary use is in interpreting PDF files. I think that's probably outdated info too. My cheapie Epson XP-3100 supports some bitmap forma

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 13/3/23 08:13, Brian wrote: The processing chain in cups generated a raster bitmap image for me to format and deliver to the printer. I didn't dig deep but I suspect the previous stages involved postscript before raster conversion rather than directly from a pdf stage. Suspicions don't qu

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Mar 2023 at 04:25:12 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 13/3/23 03:38, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > Nowadays PDF is what matters: it's the standard format for driverless > > printing (along with a mix of JPEG, PWG raster, or PCLm depending on > > which driverless printing standard you

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 13/3/23 03:38, Stefan Monnier wrote: Nowadays PDF is what matters: it's the standard format for driverless printing (along with a mix of JPEG, PWG raster, or PCLm depending on which driverless printing standard you're talking about). Admittedly, standards like IPP Everywhere require suppor

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> However, the cost of implementation was high; computers output raw >> PS code that would be interpreted by the printer into a raster image >> at the printer's natural resolution. This required high performance >> microprocessors and ample memory. The LaserWriter used a 12 MHz >> Motorola 68

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 16:52:37 -, Curt wrote: > On 2023-03-12, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > > >> > Many (most?) printers do not understand PostScript. The > >> > printing system itself is based on processing PDFs. > >> > > >> > >> Oh. > >> Times have changed! > >> I thought it was the other wa

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 11:50:15 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > Le 3/12/23 à 14:18, Brian a écrit : > > > On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 10:45:02 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > > > > > > Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > > > > it is strange that the choice was to

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Curt wrote: > On 2023-03-12, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > > >> > Many (most?) printers do not understand PostScript. The > >> > printing system itself is based on processing PDFs. > >> > > >> > >> Oh. > >> Times have changed! > >> I thought it was the other way around. > > > > You are correct, Yas

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Curt
On 2023-03-12, Dan Ritter wrote: >> > >> > Many (most?) printers do not understand PostScript. The >> > printing system itself is based on processing PDFs. >> > >> >> Oh. >> Times have changed! >> I thought it was the other way around. > > You are correct, Yassine. > > PostScript is an interpre

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 3/12/23 à 14:18, Brian a écrit : > > On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 10:45:02 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > > > > Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > > > it is strange that the choice was to generate > > > > PostScript and not PDF. > > > > > > Isn't postscrip

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/12/23 à 14:18, Brian a écrit : On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 10:45:02 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : it is strange that the choice was to generate PostScript and not PDF. Isn't postscript what printers read? Many (most?) printers do not understand

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-12 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : it is strange that the choice was to generate PostScript and not PDF. Isn't postscript what printers read? Best, -- yassine -- sysadm +213-779 06 06 23 http://about.me/ychaouche Looking for side gigs.

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-10 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 10:21:55PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 09/03/2023 21:29, tomas wrote: > > TeX is perfectly fine as a PDF backend. Especially if you go for the > > more "modern" variants, like LuaTeX, which grok UTF-8 natively. > > I am curious if you can provide preamble with font confi

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/03/2023 21:29, tomas wrote: TeX is perfectly fine as a PDF backend. Especially if you go for the more "modern" variants, like LuaTeX, which grok UTF-8 natively. I am curious if you can provide preamble with font configuration working for most of users for documents including non-latin sc

Re: Excel Spreadsheet to PDF (was: Re: PDF on debian)

2023-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:42 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:50:08 +0800 > Corey Hickman wrote: > > > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested > > way? I know I can program with java to implement that, but if there > > are existing command-line soluti

Excel Spreadsheet to PDF (was: Re: PDF on debian)

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:50:08 +0800 Corey Hickman wrote: > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested > way? I know I can program with java to implement that, but if there > are existing command-line solutions I would like to try them. This really should have been a new em

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-10 08:50:08 +0800, Corey Hickman wrote: > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested way? I > know I can program with java to implement that, but if there are existing > command-line solutions I would like to try them. I've just tried on some Excel file: unoconv

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 17:58:37 +, Brian wrote: > That would be a big drawback for a printing filter. > > CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 UTF-8-demo.txt > >out.pdf The only good thing is that box drawing is fine (while the other converters don't work well for that). However, t

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 19:24:20 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If everything else fails, read the instructions [1]. > > --pdf-engine=PROGRAM > > Use the specified engine when producing PDF output. Valid values > are pdflatex, lualatex, xelatex, latexmk, tectonic, wkhtmltopdf, > weasyprint, p

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 2:15 AM Linux-Fan wrote: > Corey Hickman writes: > > > Hello, > > > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > > And is there a VIM plugin for that? > > For cases where I care little about font or formatting, I use VIM's > integrated hardcopy: > >

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 18:36:26 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 18:07:24 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > > > >libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt > > > > > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues)

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 05:47:02PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 17:38:54 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > > > > If you want a PDF of better quality, use a workflow that includes TeX. >

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Linux-Fan
Corey Hickman writes: Hello, What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? And is there a VIM plugin for that? For cases where I care little about font or formatting, I use VIM's integrated hardcopy: :ha > /tmp/print.ps :!ps2pdf /tmp/print.ps /tmp/print.p

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 17:35:41 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 15:13:21 +, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > > > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > > > > > > > :execute '!/

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 18:07:24 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > >libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt > > > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > [...] > > Hello, > > I do not use it myself so I don't know it well

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 09 Mar 04:41 -0600, Corey Hickman wrote: > Hello, > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > And is there a VIM plugin for that? If you really want to be "old school" there is roff handled by Groff in Debian (most man pages are written in roff using the "man"

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). [...] Hello, I do not use it myself so I don't know it well but unoconv seems to be a headless Libreoffice converter with the ability

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 17:38:54 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). > > If you want a PDF of better quality, use a workflow that includes TeX. Not really. This can be better, but this can also be much worse, in particul

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). If you want a PDF of better quality, use a workflow that includes TeX. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:13:21 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > > > > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf' > > > > > > cups-filte

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 9 mars 2023 Corey Hickman a écrit : > I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF plugin > for VIM that would be great. There is a VimTeX plugin. You compose a LaTeX file and compile PDF with pdflatex/lualatex. https://github.com/lervag/vimtex

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/03/2023 22:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). I was assuming something like markdown/reStructuredText/asciidoc/etc. instead of plain text. As the last resort :TOhtml vim command t

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:29:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:42:22PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 12:43:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > There are other (simpler) options, look for text2pdf/text2ps. Personally, > > > I go the (La)

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:11:05 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. > > And apparently that is not its only flaw, a quick test had it just skip > non-ascii characters. A possible solution: :execu

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 15:01:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf' > > > > cups-filters needs to be on the system. > > But it generates a lette

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:55:13 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-03-09 21:42:24 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then > > there is an alternative to LaTeX workflow: > > > > chromium --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=/tmp/test.pdf > > f

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 21:42:24 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 09/03/2023 17:32, Corey Hickman wrote: > > > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > > And is there a VIM plugin for that? > > If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then there is > an alterna

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:29:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > TeX is perfectly fine as a PDF backend. Especially if you go for the > more "modern" variants, like LuaTeX, which grok UTF-8 natively. Yes, but has anyone written a nice wrapper that fully supports Unicode (selecting the right fonts...)? I k

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/03/2023 17:32, Corey Hickman wrote: What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? And is there a VIM plugin for that? If you use some markup language that can be converted to HTML then there is an alternative to LaTeX workflow: chromium --headless --disable-gpu --pri

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > Until now, I've been using a script that does > > paps $opt | ps2pdf - $@[-1]:t.pdf > > with some options. But due to the use of PostScript as an intermediate > file, the PDF has no text part (it is not searchable, etc.). It is not due to the use of PostScript,

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:12:17 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 3/9/23 à 12:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > look for text2pdf/text2ps. > It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf. a2ps is old and does not support Unicode. AFAIK, paps is suggested as a replacement, but it is strange tha

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 15:11:05 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. > > And apparently that is not its only flaw, a quick test had it just skip > non-ascii characters. > > I wish somebody would make a good c

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:42:22PM +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Mar 2023 at 12:43:51 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > There are other (simpler) options, look for text2pdf/text2ps. Personally, > > I go the (La)TeX way. > > For a searchable PDF, I would use What do you mean by "searcha

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Yassine Chaouche (12023-03-09): > It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf. a2ps dates back from when PDF was a crappy format where you either had to use proprietary Acrobat Reader or Libre readers unable to show most files properly. I mean, its web page has the HTML tags in all ca

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/9/23 à 12:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : look for text2pdf/text2ps. It's strange that we have a2ps and ps2pdf but not a2pdf. Best, -- yassine -- sysadm +213-779 06 06 23 http://about.me/ychaouche Looking for side gigs.

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Vincent Lefevre (12023-03-09): > But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. And apparently that is not its only flaw, a quick test had it just skip non-ascii characters. I wish somebody would make a good command-line front-end for Pango + Cairo. Regards, -- Nicolas

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-03-09 13:42:22 +, Brian wrote: > For a searchable PDF, I would use > > :execute '!/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 % > out.pdf' > > cups-filters needs to be on the system. But it generates a letter page size instead of using /etc/papersize. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 19:03:23 +0800 Corey Hickman wrote: > I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF > plugin for VIM that would be great. Not a plugin for VIM, but if you run CUPS look into the debian package printer-driver-cups-pdf. -- Does anybody read signatures any

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 12:10:39PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Le 09/03/2023 à 12:03, Corey Hickman a écrit : > > I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF > > plugin for VIM that would be great. > > > > Thanks > > Not a Vim plugin, but I usually compose documents in mark

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Erwan David
Le 09/03/2023 à 12:03, Corey Hickman a écrit : I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF plugin for VIM that would be great. Thanks Not a Vim plugin, but I usually compose documents in markdown in aneditor (be it vim or emacs) then generate a pdf from the markdown wi

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Corey Hickman
I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF plugin for VIM that would be great. Thanks On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 7:01 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Corey Hickman (12023-03-09): > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > > There are many things capable

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nicolas George
Corey Hickman (12023-03-09): > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? There are many things capable of generating PDF in Debian. What do you want to generate your PDF *from*? Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Jan 2018 at 10:14:22 (+0100), Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:31:36 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > > > But the main difference between the old and new versions (upgraded > > today) is that the new version spews error messages from the > > configuration files, 152 o

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-26 Thread Greg Marks
ks > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:44:46 -0600 > From: Greg Marks > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software > > Thanks for the replies. The most recent upgraded versions of Poppler > in Debian 9 (libpoppler64:amd64 0.48.0-2

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-26 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:44:46 -0600 Greg Marks wrote: > Thanks for the replies. The most recent upgraded versions of Poppler > in Debian 9 (libpoppler64:amd64 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, libpoppler-glib8:amd64 > 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, poppler-utils 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, libpoppler-qt4-4:amd64 > 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, l

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-26 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:31:36 -0600 David Wright wrote: > But the main difference between the old and new versions (upgraded > today) is that the new version spews error messages from the > configuration files, 152 of them in all. > > Here are the first few. (The program stammers.) > > Conf

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-25 Thread Greg Marks
display the file https://gmarks.org/cklppaper.pdf correctly. But qpdfview is still displaying gibberish. Regards, Greg Marks > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:05:27 +0100 > From: Michael Lange > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă > Subject: [solved]Re

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 22:05:27 (+0100), Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:21:59 +0100 > Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > > Downgraded some poppler packages and I can view now all pdf files > > with xpdf. The difference between the old and new files now (for me) > > is that th

[solved]Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-25 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:21:59 +0100 Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > Downgraded some poppler packages and I can view now all pdf files > with xpdf. The difference between the old and new files now (for me) > is that they use (visible) different fonts. Just for the record, today's upgrade to st

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 23-01-2018, at 10h 11'43", Curt wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > > Same problem here with bank statements (recent bank statements unviewable in > xpdf but viewable in evince). > > (Actually it appears the pdfs viewable in

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 23-01-2018, at 11h 18'26", Michael Lange wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > Hi again, > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:03:24 +0100 > Michael Lange wrote: > > uh no, appears to be rather this bug in libpoppler: > > https

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi again, On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:03:24 +0100 Michael Lange wrote: > just a shot in the dark: I think okular and qpdfview use qt, some of the > "working" viewers seem to use gtk. Not sure about the toolkit xpdf and > some of the other programs use, but maybe the problem has something to > do with

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-23, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed > incorrectly by certain software" >> I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as >> gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. >>

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:28:13 -0600 Greg Marks wrote: > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > The PDF file in question can be downloaded from the site: > >https://link.springer.com/a

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
ebian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:15:16 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" I have en

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 23-01-2018, at 13h 55'49", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > 3) the stderr out from (at least) okular and xpdf look like they might > be useful to someone who understands the topic better, but do look like > something

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > [...] > numerous "Missing or bad Type3 CharProc ent

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/01/18 13:28, Greg Marks wrote: > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > The PDF file in question can be downloaded from the site: > >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11856-0

Re: pdf file is not read correctly

2017-06-21 Thread Fungi4All
From: abelahc...@gmail.com thanks a lot I think it is an encoding problem. When I open it in embedde pdf reader in firefox, the a print it as a pdf file I get same problem, but if I print it as a PS file, the problem is fixed and the display is correct. As far as I know this would make it a ps f

Re: pdf file is not read correctly

2017-06-21 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
thanks a lot I think it is an encoding problem. When I open it in embedde pdf reader in firefox, the a print it as a pdf file I get same problem, but if I print it as a PS file, the problem is fixed and the display is correct. So the problem is in " pdf font" ? by the way pdf uses font? thanks

Re: pdf file is not read correctly

2017-06-20 Thread Fungi4All
Brian is very knowledgeable in many areas but unless your request meets Brian's specifications all you will get from him is criticism on how the request was placed. If you don't believe me check the archives of the list for this Brian-bot! Original Message Subject: pdf file is n

Re: pdf file is not read correctly

2017-06-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 Jun 2017 at 21:38:25 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > First, please avoid written your emails in bold with a huge font, it is > very annoying to read (this is probably the reason why you did no > receive any answer). No previous responses? Perhaps the mails had fonts too small for you to see

Re: pdf file is not read correctly

2017-06-20 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi, First, please avoid written your emails in bold with a huge font, it is very annoying to read (this is probably the reason why you did no receive any answer). Le 20/06/2017 à 10:19, Abdelkader Belahcene a écrit : > *Hi everybody, > * > * > Strange, until today, I believed that a pdf file writ

Re: pdf file is not read correctly

2017-06-20 Thread Joe
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:19:16 +0100 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > *Hi everybody,* > > > > *Strange, until today, I believed that a pdf file written in any > language can be read by a pdf reader, since it is binary !! For > example evince, and not I was wrong !!The following file is a pdf > file

Re: pdf file is not read correctly

2017-06-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 Jun 2017 at 09:19:16 +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > *Strange, until today, I believed that a pdf file written in any language > can be read by a pdf reader, since it is binary !! For example evince, and > not I was wrong !!The following file is a pdf file in Arabic, it is read > co

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread Thomas
Hi, thanks a lot, this seemed to be what I have looked for. #aptitude install xournal bye Thomas Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2017, 13:26:03 schrieb Thane of Athos: > Hallo, > > ich würde dir Xournal empfehlen. Ist in den Repos. > > LG, > > Thanatos. > > On 04/20/2017 11:17 AM, Thomas wrote: >

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread Thane of Athos
Hallo, ich würde dir Xournal empfehlen. Ist in den Repos. LG, Thanatos. On 04/20/2017 11:17 AM, Thomas wrote: Hallo, ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem dicken Pinsel drübe

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread hdv
On 2017-04-20 11:17, Thomas wrote: > Hallo, > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich > zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem > dicken Pinsel drüber gehen. > Hier drucke ich das aus, gehe mit einem eding drüber und scan

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread Siard
Thomas wrote: > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter > unkenntlich zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und > konnte einfach mit einem dicken Pinsel drüber gehen. Master PDF Editor for Linux can do this, it can edit text as well. https://code-industry.net/f

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thomas wrote: > Hallo Deutsch gutt. debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org besser. :)) Well the answer to the question about a PDF editor in Debian, which can blacken text lines, would be of interest to me. Not so much because i need to remove info from PDF but because i look for a PDF editor

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:17:44AM +0200, Thomas wrote: > Hallo, > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich > zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem > dicken Pinsel drüber ge

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
Am 20.04.2017 um 11:17 schrieb Thomas: > Hallo, > ich suche ein Programm um einfach eine Zeile oder ein paar Wörter unkenntlich > zu machen. Bei Windows hatte ich da ein Programm und konnte einfach mit einem > dicken Pinsel drüber gehen. > Hier drucke ich das aus, gehe mit einem eding drüber un

Re: pdf reader

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 09:57:04PM +1000, win...@tpg.com.au wrote: > Dear debian-user > How can i install pdf reader for beaglebone debian. Please give me > command line and link.Thanks What have you tried, and what didn't work for you? Have you installed *any* software on it yet? -- "If you're

Re: pdf reader

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:40:47PM +1000, Matthew Chong wrote: > If you have dpkg and frontends (apt, aptitude etc) you can easily install > zathura PDF viewer with "sudo apt-get install zathura", which is a > minimalist PDF viewer. You've done that on the Beaglebone have you? -- "If you're not

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