[PLUG] Printing PDF File

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 18:14:04 UTC 2014


On 09/10/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> I've never been a fan of acroread.
> Ed,
>
>     Me, neither. For some reason xpdf does not display .pdf files printed from
> Web pages; the image area is completely black. And, sometimes xpdf cannot
> recognize a .pdf file created by what I assume is the latest from Redmond.
> In these situations I used to use epdfview, but it's apparently no longer
> supported and is kinda' flaky. So, ... I built mupdf from the SBo
> repository. This works OK, but does not have the range of controls (such as
> zooming) that xpdf supports on those files it will properly display.
>
>     Much prefer viewers where navigation uses keys rather than the pointy
> device.
>
>> Adobe really does not support Linux all that well.
>     So, what else is new? But at least their bugs and vulnerabilities are
> limited to Windows. :-) (Brian Krebs announced a huge patch release from
> Adobe today.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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Okular works really well for me part of KDE, included by default in 
Slack. Only problem is if you don't use KDE it has to launch a bunch of 
KDE services before it can do it's thing. But once those are loaded it 
starts up in decent amount of time for that session.

Have Fun :)
Ben




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