Re: free alternative acroread
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Andreas Goesele wrote: Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? The print menu in Evince lets you scale the document and watch a preview (see the Page Setup tab). And the Print Setup menu lets you specify paper size. Wouldn't this do what you want? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: free alternative acroread
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:31:36 +0530 (IST) Girish Kulkarni gir...@athene.org.in wrote: On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Andreas Goesele wrote: Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? The print menu in Evince lets you scale the document and watch a preview (see the Page Setup tab). And the Print Setup menu lets you specify paper size. Wouldn't this do what you want? Girish. The missing part is doing it automatically and by default on documents. Having to do it each time is annoying and can be enough not to switch. Personally I haven't found any PDF reader that competes with acroread for text quality, image rotation and presentation support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: free alternative acroread
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:54:41 -0400 Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Celejar, option Fit to printable area in the print dialog. Can you describe exactly what that option does? Just what it says; Reduces pages to fit the printable area of the currently selected paper size, whilst maintaining aspect ratio. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent We don't need no-one to tell us what's right or wrong The Modern World - The Jam signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: free alternative acroread
On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:34:19 Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:54:41 -0400 Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: option Fit to printable area in the print dialog. Can you describe exactly what that option does? Just what it says; Reduces pages to fit the printable area of the currently selected paper size, whilst maintaining aspect ratio. Hi, Brad - Does it not simply do exactly what it says - fit - so that it decreases the image if it is larger than the printable area, but _increases_ the image if it is smaller? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: free alternative acroread
On Thursday 01 October 2009 08:54:45 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The option Fit to printable area in the print dialog. I have that always switched on, and as I have eye problems it's really very helpful for me. Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? I have not used acroread in ages. Okular or xpdf work just fine. There is no specific fit to printable area option on either, but you could check out various pdf tools around which can edit/modify pdf files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: free alternative acroread
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:30:11 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, Does it not simply do exactly what it says - fit - so that it decreases the image if it is larger than the printable area, but _increases_ the image if it is smaller? Ah, good point. Hang on With the two options Fit to printable area and Shrink to printable area yes, the former will also increase the size to fit. The latter, obviously, doesn't increase size to avoid any problems with images for example. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent Never much liked playing there anyway Banned From The Roxy - Crass signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: free alternative acroread
IIUC this feature scalestranslates the document so as to minimize the margin (and hence maximize the size of the printed text, without cropping). Yes, that's it. If that's the case, no I sadly don't know of a Free Software tool that does that for you. Sad news. I would love to see a tool that does this automatically for me (especially if it can do it for 2-up as well). Me too :-) Fundamentally, it shouldn't be that hard. IIUC running the PS (or PDF) file through gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox should return the needed info about area actual used by the document, after which it should be easy to scale/translate/rotate to make it fit on a page of any given size. But I never got around to trying it out. Would be nice, if somebody could take this up ... Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
free alternative acroread
Hi! I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The option Fit to printable area in the print dialog. I have that always switched on, and as I have eye problems it's really very helpful for me. Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: free alternative acroread
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:46:18 +0200 Andreas Goesele goes...@hfph.mwn.de wrote: Hi! I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The option Fit to printable area in the print dialog. Can you describe exactly what that option does? I have that always switched on, and as I have eye problems it's really very helpful for me. Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: free alternative acroread
I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The option Fit to printable area in the print dialogue. [...] Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? IIUC this feature scalestranslates the document so as to minimize the margin (and hence maximize the size of the printed text, without cropping). If that's the case, no I sadly don't know of a Free Software tool that does that for you. But I routinely do it by hand (for 2-up printing, in my case) with pstops: I convert from PDF to PS, then run it through pstops with some tentative scaletranslate, run `gv' on the output and then re-run pstops with different arguments (leaving `gv' refresh its display on-the-fly) until I like what I see. I would love to see a tool that does this automatically for me (especially if it can do it for 2-up as well). Fundamentally, it shouldn't be that hard. IIUC running the PS (or PDF) file through gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox should return the needed info about area actual used by the document, after which it should be easy to scale/translate/rotate to make it fit on a page of any given size. But I never got around to trying it out. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
