Hi Bernard, Thanks for your email. Here is the usage info below for
acroread 7. I got acroread 7 from
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
which is the mplayer debian site. Acroread 7 was around on the adobe
site for awhile for linux but they took it off. It appeared on the
site above recently so I installed it. Maybe I'm ahead of things; if
so sorry about that; I can wait for things to catch up.
Yes my mozpluggerrc file is unmodified.
I did play around a bit with mozpluggerrc but I don't understand it
well enough to figure out wahat is happening in the time I had last
night. If I remove the +useFrontEndProgram option then acroread will
start up but not in the firefox window. Yet the old mozpluggerrc has
that option and acroread does not object. I have the acroread plugin
too but I couldn't figure out how to get mozplugger to let the plugin
handle pdfs. Sorry but I don't know enough about mozplugger to go
further. I hope the above is helpful. I can try some things out if you
have ideas to sugegst.
Thanks again, Bruce
Usage: /usr/bin/acroread [options] [list of files]
Options:
--display=DISPLAY
This option specifies the host and display to use.
--screen=SCREEN
X screen to use. Use this options to override the
screen part of the DISPLAY environment variable.
--sync
Make X calls synchronous. This slows down the program considerably.
-geometry [widthxheight][{+|-}x offset{+|-}y offset]
Size and/or location of the document windows.
Note: this option is position dependent, and can be
specified multiple times. The geometry specified only
affects the list of files following it.
-help
Prints the common command-line options.
-iconic
Launches in an iconic state on the desktop.
-setenv var=value
Tells the main application to perform the equivalent of
C-shell setenv var value.
-tempFile
Indicates files listed on the command line are temporary files
and should not be put in the recent file list. The document
title will be the title in the pdf document, instead of the
filename.
-tempFileTitle title
Same as -tempFile, except the title is specified.
-toPostScript [options] pdf_file ... [ps_dir]
-toPostScript [options] -pairs pdf_file_1 ps_file_1 ...
-toPostScript [options]
Converts the given pdf_files to PostScript.
In the first form, if the last file specified is a directory,
then all preceding files will be converted to PostScript
and the generated PostScript files will be placed into ps_dir.
If a directory is not specified, then the PostScript files
will be placed in the same directory as the original file.
In the second form, the file list contains pairs, each
consisting of a PDF filename and a corresponding PostScript
filename.
The third form specifies a filter, reading a PDF file from
standard input and writing the PostScript file to standard
output.
Note: When using -toPostScript it must be the first argument
passed in on the command line.
The following are valid options for the conversion of PDF to
PostScript:
-binary - emit binary PostScript where possible
-start int - identify the first page in the document to be
converted (default is the first page of the document)
-end int - identify the last page in the document to be
converted (default is the last page of the document)
-optimizeForSpeed - emit PostScript such that all fonts are
emitted once at the beginning of the document. This
results in faster transmission times and smaller
PostScript documents but requires more PostScript printer
virtual memory.
-landscape - rotate the pages to print landscape
-reverse - reverse the page order of the output
-odd - emit only odd-numbered pages
-even - emit only even-numbered pages
-commentsOff - don't print comments
-annotsOff - don't print annots
-level2 - emit Level 2 PostScript (level1 is not supported)
-level3 - emit Level 3 PostScript
-printerhalftones - use the printer default halftones.
-saveVM - download fonts as needed to preserve printer memory
-size - Paper size (letter,tabloid,ledger,legal,a3,a4,a5,b4,b5)
-scale int - scale the pages according to the scale factor
(default is 100 percent)
-shrink - shrink the pages to fit the page size
-expand - expand the pages to fit the page size
-size pagesize - set the page size. The following page sizes
are recognized:
letter - letter size paper
tabloid - tabloid size paper
ledger - ledger size paper
legal - legal size paper
