Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Stroller
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Neal Hogan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Jacob Todd
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 If you want to try out page, don't install plan9port from portage, it's horribly out of date.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.

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread daid kahl
[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.

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
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

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
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.