[PLUG] acroread for 64-bit machines?

Tom tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 00:19:36 UTC 2017


You must have some environment dependency difference - I use this on
various versions of SuSE, SLE, Fedora, Ubuntu all with KDE, LXDE or
Gnome - do not see any frame at full screen mode.
Just tried it on Ubuntu + Unity and YES, as you mentioned, Evince needs
F5 to hide the frame. 
Tomas
On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 10:45 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Tom wrote:
> 
> > I regularly use okular and evince for presenting from PDF. To go to
> > full screen (presentation) mode use:
> >  evince - F11
> 
> Tom,
> 
>    I just tried this and while F11 does expand to the full screen,
> the frame,
> side window, and icons along the top of the slides remain. Looking at
> the
> menu I learned that F5, presentation mode, centers the slides on the
> screen
> while maintaining the aspect ratio. The [Esc] key brings the display
> back to
> the small window which can then be closed.
> 
>    It's interesting that when xpdf is invoked with -fullscreen it
> does so,
> but with a wide monitor it puts the slides toward the left side and
> fills in
> the right side with plain white background. On a non-wide-monitor
> portable
> xpdf works fine, but with a wide monitor evince/F5 is the way to go.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
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