Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
Hi, I cannot use mupdf at all. I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay. But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot do anything else. There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit. No search, no printing ... What am I missing? Helmut. On 24 Feb, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote: 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. http://bugs.gentoo.org/280469 I hope it at least makes into sunrise. There is a version or two in the gentoo-china overlay, but they are old and have security vulnerabilities. W -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
The quoted stated vi-like bindings, so I would advise you to state that you've tried the j k keys for up down. If the previous poster has bottom-posted, your top-posting makes the quuoted *particularly* difficult to read. I hope you will follow the conventions of the previous poster in the future. Stroller. On 25 Feb 2010, at 08:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ... I cannot use mupdf at all. I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay. But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot do anything else. There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit. No search, no printing ... On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote: 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.
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I cannot use mupdf at all. I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay. But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot do anything else. There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit. No search, no printing ... What am I missing? The documentation? Helmut. On 24 Feb, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote: 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. http://bugs.gentoo.org/280469 I hope it at least makes into sunrise. There is a version or two in the gentoo-china overlay, but they are old and have security vulnerabilities. W -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
Thanks to 'Stroller' and Willie I couldn't just believe in such an archaic user interface. Helmut. On 25 Feb, Stroller wrote: The quoted stated vi-like bindings, so I would advise you to state that you've tried the j k keys for up down. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
On Thursday 25 February 2010 12:45:34 Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I cannot use mupdf at all. I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay. But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot do anything else. There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit. No search, no printing ... What am I missing? The documentation? http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/ Look at the bottom of the page under Manual. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
There's app-text/gv, which is very small. There's also page from plan9port. If you want to try out page, don't install plan9port from portage, it's horribly out of date. You should download a recent tarball from http://swtch.com/plan9port. -- I am a man who does not exist for others. pgpbL4e2O3AEv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:01:37AM +0900, daid kahl wrote: I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread. I want something fast for big files, prints well, and has an interface that doesn't remind me of pure and natural X. I don't mind the little page overview as a side-tool, but I don't strictly require it. Speedwise I don't think epdfview/evince/kpdf will be all that much different. They are all based on the poppler framework just with different frontends. Poppler is, in turn, based on the xpdf rendering parts. Acroread is, well acroread, and I try to avoid it whenever I can. evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long or have big figures. That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have the printing problem. If it weren't for the Gnome dependencies that I don't want on my laptop, I'd also use evince at home. (Hum, just checked it out again now, and it looks like the dependency list is shorter than I remembered it being?) The interface for xpdf is pretty lame (especially default printing), but it's quick as demons chasing bats out of hell. But it works. It is my pdf viewer of choice at home. One thing I am waiting to see is epdf from the enlightenment libraries. It is still masked, and is in the enlightenment overlay. In the sunrise overlay there is a program called apvlv. I have never tried it myself, but the codebase is small and it has a UI based on the VIM UI (for better or for worse). You probably know this already, but gv doesn't work too well a lot of times. Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
[snips from daid / Willie Wong] evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long or have big figures. That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have the printing problem. [snip] [also sorry if I used HTML formatting earlier, sometimes it is turned on for me and I forget] It could have been this crazy pdf I was printing, which was one of the first times I was really using evince a lot since other things were also complaining. I had pdftk'ed different files, and I think some of them were like US Letter and others were A4 and others weren't specified. Well, I kind of erased that experience from my memory, but I know almost everything on different OSes didn't like what I'd done, whatever it was. So this could be a very bad test case. There was something else in my mind from testing it that made me kind of shiver in a bad way, but I forget. It should be a good program from what I know, however. The interface for xpdf is pretty lame (especially default printing), but it's quick as demons chasing bats out of hell. But it works. It is my pdf viewer of choice at home. [snip] I'll check out what I can do for printing from it and maybe making it prettier. You probably know this already, but gv doesn't work too well a lot of times. Yeah, I kinda forget, but I assume it wasn't removed from my world for no reason at all. Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from. We seem to be doing well so far! ~daid
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
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. -Neal
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
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.
-Neal
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.
Greetings
Sebastian
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote: 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. http://bugs.gentoo.org/280469 I hope it at least makes into sunrise. There is a version or two in the gentoo-china overlay, but they are old and have security vulnerabilities. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
