On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote: > For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one > of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print > current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document > (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet). > Acroread is only available as a 32-bit binary and it required that > _89_ packages be built with a 32-bit ABI use flag. [There are various > other reasons to dislike acroread, but that's the one the really > bugged me...] > > When I noticed that the latest versions of Qoppa's PDFStudio has added > the "print current view" feature, I happily coughed up the $36 to > upgrade. > > Emerge is now busy rebuilding those 89 packages without the 32-bit ABI > use flags.
I haven't used acroread or Qoppa's PDFStudio, but qpdfview and okular will copy and save selections as images, which you can save and print thereafter. If you prefer to work on a terminal mutool will also extract images. -- Regards, Mick
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