Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:31:36 +0530 (IST) Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Andreas Goesele wrote: > > Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any > > easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which > > don't have the option? > > The print menu i

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-02 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Andreas Goesele wrote: Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? The print menu in Evince lets you scale the document and watch a preview (see the Page Setup tab

Re: Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-01 Thread Andreas Goesele
IIUC this feature scales&translates the document so as to minimize the margin (and hence maximize the size of the printed text, without cropping). Yes, that's it. If that's the case, no I sadly don't know of a Free Software tool that does that for you. Sad news. I would love to see a tool

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:30:11 +0100 Lisi wrote: Hello Lisi, > Does it not simply do exactly what it says - fit - so that it > decreases the image if it is larger than the printable area, but > _increases_ the image if it is smaller? Ah, good point. Hang on With the two options "Fit to print

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-01 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:54:45 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately > acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The > option "Fit to printable area" in the print dialog. > > I have that a

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-01 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:34:19 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:54:41 -0400 > Celejar wrote: > > > option "Fit to printable area" in the print dialog. > > > > Can you describe exactly what that option does? > > Just what it says; Reduces pages to fit the printable area of the >

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:54:41 -0400 Celejar wrote: Hello Celejar, > > option "Fit to printable area" in the print dialog. > Can you describe exactly what that option does? Just what it says; Reduces pages to fit the printable area of the currently selected paper size, whilst maintaining aspec

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-09-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately > acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The > option "Fit to printable area" in the print dialogue. [...] > Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any > easy way to achieve the s

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-09-30 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:46:18 +0200 "Andreas Goesele" wrote: > Hi! > > I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately > acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The > option "Fit to printable area" in the print dialog. Can you describe exactly what that