[PLUG] Acroread Changes Typeface [RESOLVED]

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 23:03:31 UTC 2016


On 03/18/2016 10:25 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
> I have just about every PDF viewer installed that will run on Xubuntu
> 14.04. My default workhorse is plain old Evince. Qpdfview is not bad,
> but Evince has a "properties" option that displays information about
> the file, including fonts, which is occasionally useful. Evince (like
> Okular and qpdfview) can also import a straight Postscript file (.ps),
> and then save as PDF if desired. Okular, as mentioned above, needs KDE,
> but I have so many other KDE apps installed that it doesn't add much
> more. I hardly ever use it because its print function is worthless,
> e.g., if you tell it the document is landscape it still prints as
> portrait, plus it fails to see options available in my prnters. Acroread
> lets me view properties like fonts and usually prints correctly, but
> takes forever to launch. Mostly I keep it around because if I need to
> send a file to an outside print company Acroread is the gold standard. 
...

Interesting: I haven't had print issues with Okular in something like ~4
yrs on the HP laser and deskjet.  Portrait/landscape, duplex, and I can
see and set printer options.

BTW, I use the oldest Linux distro on the planet (No, not debian).

-Ed




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