[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Grant Edwards 
On 2010-02-25, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

 What am I missing?
 
 The documentation?

 http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/

 Look at the bottom of the page under Manual.

I had the same problem: I expected there to be some usage
documentation in the source tarball.  There isn't (at least any
that I could find).  Eventually I went back to the web site...

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[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras 

On 02/24/2010 06:01 PM, daid kahl wrote:

Hello all,

Simple question: Can you please explain your pdf viewer of choice (and
any configs or 'hacks' I should do)?  I can't find anything I like.

I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread.  As I am trying
to remove kdelibs from my system to reduce overhead, I'm reluctant to go
for okular, and although I had some brief experience with it, I forget
my results (still trying to replace kaffeine..that's another post maybe
for later once I'm done testing).  I had gs programs of sorts for
awhile, and I forget the results, other than to say the pdf parts aren't
on my machine anymore for better or worse.


There's also Foxit Reader.  You can find it in the rion overlay.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem 
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:06:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 On 02/24/2010 06:01 PM, daid kahl wrote:
  Hello all,
 
  Simple question: Can you please explain your pdf viewer of choice (and
  any configs or 'hacks' I should do)?  I can't find anything I like.
 
  I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread.  As I am trying
  to remove kdelibs from my system to reduce overhead, I'm reluctant to go
  for okular, and although I had some brief experience with it, I forget
  my results (still trying to replace kaffeine..that's another post maybe
  for later once I'm done testing).  I had gs programs of sorts for
  awhile, and I forget the results, other than to say the pdf parts aren't
  on my machine anymore for better or worse.
 
 There's also Foxit Reader.  You can find it in the rion overlay.
 
 

Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making notes in 
them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that allowed 
that.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (other than okular) do it, 
I'd be very grateful :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong 
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
 Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making notes 
 in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that 
 allowed that.
 If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (other than okular) do 
 it, I'd be very grateful :-)
 
I don't use a PDF reader for that :)

I manage my PDF documents with Jabref, and I add a comment field to
store general comments about the PDF. For margin-notes I use the
PDF-annotation feature of xournal. 

W

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread daid kahl 
On 25 February 2010 02:46, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote:

 On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
  Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making
 notes in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that
 allowed that.
  If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (other than okular)
 do it, I'd be very grateful :-)
 
 I don't use a PDF reader for that :)

 I manage my PDF documents with Jabref, and I add a comment field to
 store general comments about the PDF. For margin-notes I use the
 PDF-annotation feature of xournal.

 W

 --
 Willie W. Wong
 ww...@math.princeton.edu


jabref is totally amazing, and I also use that.  I can fully endorse it to
anyone using bibtex sorts of things.

~daid

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Grant Edwards 
On 2010-02-24, Sebastian Be?ler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote:
 Am 24.02.2010 21:21, schrieb Neal Hogan:
 On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote:
 [snips from daid / Willie Wong]
 

 Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from.

 We seem to be doing well so far!
 
 I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
 sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick gentoo mupdf google had
 a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
 they were talking about.

 Shao ~ # eix mupdf
 * app-text/mupdf
  Available versions:  (~)0.5[1] (~)20090703[2] {+cjk debug jbig jpeg2k}
  Homepage:http://ccxvii.net/mupdf
  Description: Lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in
 portable C.

 [1] gentoo-china layman/gentoo-china
 [2] rion layman/rion

 It is not in portage tree but in those two overlays.

I just built mupdf 0.5 from sources (after emerging ftjam), and
mupdf segfaulted a few pages into the first document I opened.
That and the inability to search are going to make it a
non-starter for me.

It is small and fast, though.

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