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
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
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
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
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)
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.
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
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
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
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
> 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
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
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
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 useful.
> >
> > lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf
>
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.
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 option under Evince, yep.
>
> But maybe you ca
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 need, but a GUI is needed for clicky-type
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 a chance by creating a new printer
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 best PDF viewer around. I installed
>
Unfortunately my experience is that acroread is the most reliable,
particularly for commerically-produced pdf's like one finds on the web. It
sure would be nice to have a non-Adobe option, given their recent
behavior.
ap
--
Andre
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 installed
> > Acrobat Reader, but I found
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've seen, and can n
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
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