Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-02-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 30/01/2024 12:50, David Wright wrote: On 30/01/2024 02:51, David Wright wrote: . Press HOME, . Type any letter that makes a "wrong" command name (eg aokular), . Press END, [...] However, using my "wrong" command method, Tab Tab lists are complete all the way down the path. You can then

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 10:34:21 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 30/01/2024 02:51, David Wright wrote: > > . Press HOME, > > . Type any letter that makes a "wrong" command name (eg aokular), > > . Press END, > > The escape "Esc /" workaround has been posted in this thread already. Yes, I believe

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 30/01/2024 02:51, David Wright wrote: . Press HOME, . Type any letter that makes a "wrong" command name (eg aokular), . Press END, The escape "Esc /" workaround has been posted in this thread already. It uses built-in readline path completion instead of BASH programmable completion. It

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Kiermaier
On 1/29/24 20:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: complete -r isn't intended as a workaround. It's intended as a diagnostic step. Seeing the problem go away when completion goes away means that the problem is *in* the completion. Thus, he knows which package to file a bug report against. Yes, I

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 01:51:19PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 19:31:50 (+0100), Michael Kiermaier wrote: > > Thank you for your responses! After 'complete -r' the problem > > disappears. I should add that I never touched the autocomplete settings. > > No, but you lose your

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 19:31:50 (+0100), Michael Kiermaier wrote: > On 1/29/24 18:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:05:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Let me test that as well > > > [...] > > > > unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Kiermaier
On 1/29/24 18:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:05:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: Let me test that as well [...] unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\ with\ blanks/dir2/file "okular" is important here. Only limited set of file name suffixes

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 12:59:39 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:05:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Let me test that as well > > [...] > > > unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\ with\ blanks/dir2/file > > > > "okular" is important

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:05:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Let me test that as well > [...] > > unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\ with\ blanks/dir2/file > > "okular" is important here. Only limited set of file name suffixes are > allowed for some

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: Let me test that as well [...] unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\ with\ blanks/dir2/file "okular" is important here. Only limited set of file name suffixes are allowed for some commands. You do not need to have okular installed, completion rules are part

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 07:40:13 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:32:18AM +0100, Michael Kiermaier wrote: > > I would like to run okular opening the pdf file > > ~/dir1\ with\ blanks/dir2/file.pdf > > via command line. In konsole I type > > okular ~/dir1\ with\

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:32:18AM +0100, Michael Kiermaier wrote: > I would like to run okular opening the pdf file > ~/dir1\ with\ blanks/dir2/file.pdf > via command line. In konsole I type > okular ~/dir1\ with\ blanks/ > and hit the tab key twice for autocomplete. But I won't get

Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Kiermaier
a blank like dir1 makes the problem disappear. Also, note that adding a blank to dir2 is not a problem. (2) Automatic filtering of autocompletion candidates. Starting the command with 'konsole' and then hitting tab will only complete to pdf files. When I do the same with 'ls' instead of 'okular

Re: resizing PDF files with Ghostscript

2023-09-18 Thread Curt
On 2023-09-17, Greg Marks wrote: > > I am trying to use Ghostscript to resize PDF files to letter page size, > but on certain files the output is not the correct size. As an example: > >$wget https://gmarks.org/abrams_anh_pardo.pdf > >$pdfinfo abrams_anh_pardo.pdf=

resizing PDF files with Ghostscript

2023-09-16 Thread Greg Marks
I am trying to use Ghostscript to resize PDF files to letter page size, but on certain files the output is not the correct size. As an example: $wget https://gmarks.org/abrams_anh_pardo.pdf $pdfinfo abrams_anh_pardo.pdf ... Page size: 539 x 737 pts ... $gs -o

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:37:54 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 22:31:48 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:53:52 -0500 David Wright > > wrote: > > > But what eliminates it for me as a general viewer is the lack of key- > > > binding configuration file. Quoting

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 22:31:48 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:53:52 -0500 David Wright > wrote: > > But what eliminates it for me as a general viewer is the lack of key- > > binding configuration file. Quoting Archwiki, > > "Navigation within a document works with standard

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:53:52 -0500 David Wright wrote: ... > But what eliminates it for me as a general viewer is the lack of key- > binding configuration file. Quoting Archwiki, > "Navigation within a document works with standard keyboard shortcuts >and mouse interaction. For example, B

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 07:51:22 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 Erik Christiansen > >> wrote: > >> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-18 Thread Kenneth Parker
ng technically invalid PDFs. I've had > some trouble viewing PDFs exported by LibreCAD in Evince, and a few > other funnies that I can't remember now. > > Adobe Reader does seem a bit better at dealing with dodgy files, and of > course it deals with the extended PDFs e.g. editable form

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting franiortiz hotmail (2019-06-17 11:33:30) > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:11:17PM -0700, Fred wrote: >> On 06/15/2019 08:40 AM, k. jantzen wrote: >>>On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer.

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-17 Thread franiortiz hotmail
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:11:17PM -0700, Fred wrote: > On 06/15/2019 08:40 AM, k. jantzen wrote: > >On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: > >> > >>Hello, > >> > >>in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf > >>or documentviewer. > >> > >>But once in a while I get a pdf

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-17, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > >..or install Adobe Reader 9.5.5, which is still available on Adobe FTP > > server. Very rarely needed here, but it works. > I wonder about the advisability of running software that hasn't received security updates since 2013.

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-17 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
On 6/15/19 3:11 PM, Fred wrote: > On 06/15/2019 08:40 AM, k. jantzen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> thanks a lot for this interesting discussion. >> >> As stated before I used documentviewer and xpdf. >> >> As a consequence of this discussion I tried evince and mupdf. >> They did not solve the problem. >>

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 16/06/19, Gary Dale (g...@extremeground.com) wrote: > On 2019-06-15 12:43 p.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > We agree it is uncommon to use both (you go further and claim it is even > > common to use neither), and we agree it is common to use either one or > > the other (you go further and

Re: Offlist: Reading pdf files

2019-06-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steve Litt (2019-06-16 09:04:14) [ stuff posted off list ] Please don't move the conversation off the list. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 12:43 p.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 17:46:50) On 2019-06-15 10:56 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Fred
On 06/15/2019 08:40 AM, k. jantzen wrote: On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: Hello, in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer. But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I have to go to Windows to open it. What

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting k. jantzen (2019-06-15 17:40:24) > On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: > > in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either > > xpdf or documentviewer. > > > > But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then > > I have to go to Windows to open it.

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 17:46:50) > On 2019-06-15 10:56 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) >>> On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an otherwise non-KDE environment.

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 15/06/19, Curt (cu...@free.fr) wrote: > I use mupdf from time to time, but as it doesn't refresh automagically like > Evince when I run 'pdflatex' on an open pdf file whose tex source I've > modified, I prefer the latter. Depending on your editor, it should be simple to sync the PDF to changes

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 05:40:24PM +0200, k. jantzen wrote: > Hello, > > thanks a lot for this interesting discussion. > > As stated before I used documentviewer and xpdf. > > As a consequence of this discussion I tried evince and mupdf. > They did not solve the problem. You might also try gv

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread k. jantzen
On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: Hello, in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer. But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I have to go to Windows to open it. What is so spectacular about these files that

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 10:56 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an otherwise non-KDE environment. Far better than (e.g. virtualized) Windows with Adobe

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 16:31:28) > On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an >> otherwise non-KDE environment. >> >> Far better than (e.g. virtualized) Windows with Adobe Reader, though >> :-) > > However few

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-15 3:39 a.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [ quotes reordered by time - please consider not top-posting, Hans ] Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 05:35:58) On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: in general I do not have a

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Michael Stone
luck with okular than with any of the other options for problematic pdf files.

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.06.19 07:51, Curt wrote: > curty@einstein:~$ mupdf > usage: mupdf [options] file.pdf [page] > -p -password > -r -resolution > -A -set anti-aliasing quality in bits (0=off, 8=best) > -C -RRGGBB (tint color in hexadecimal syntax) > -W -

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Curt (2019-06-15 09:51:22) > On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 > >> Erik Christiansen wrote: > >> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nift

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-15, Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 >>> Erik Christiansen wrote: >>> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on >

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 >> Erik Christiansen wrote: >> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on >> > hand. >> >> I actually l

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ quotes reordered by time - please consider not top-posting, Hans ] Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 05:35:58) > On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 > Erik Christiansen wrote: > > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on > > hand. > > I actually love mupdf, and I use it as my main pdf reader. It's just so >

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:28:10 +0200 Hans wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: Did you try "Evince" or "Okular"? Best Hans Hello, in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer.

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000 Erik Christiansen wrote: ... > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on > hand. I actually love mupdf, and I use it as my main pdf reader. It's just so lightweight and easy to use for basic pdf reading. Celejar

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
viewers. > > > >> Is there another program that would read such a file? > > > > There are many PDF viewers in Debian. Probably best way to sift through > > them is to install the package apt-xapian-index and run these: > > > > axi-cache search pdf v

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Probably best way to sift through > them is to install the package apt-xapian-index and run these: > > axi-cache search pdf viewer > axi-cache more > > > When your interest is in what PDF files the applications can render, > then you need not try them all b

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-14 Thread Erik Christiansen
ound a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue... after an initial: Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on hand. Erik

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
che search pdf viewer axi-cache more When your interest is in what PDF files the applications can render, then you need not try them all but can check which underlying PDF rendering library they use which are far more limited. Evince (a.k.a. "documentviewer"), Xpdf, Okular, Atril, Qpd

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-13 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
... >> in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf >> or documentviewer. >> >> But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I >> have to go to Windows to open it. >> >> What is so spectacular about these files that they cannot be read by the >>

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:28:10 +0200 Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: > Did you try "Evince" or "Okular"? > > Best > > Hans > > Hello, > > > > in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either > > xpdf or documentviewer. > > > > But

Re: Reading pdf files

2019-06-13 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: Did you try "Evince" or "Okular"? Best Hans > Hello, > > in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf > or documentviewer. > > But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I > have

Reading pdf files

2019-06-13 Thread k. jantzen
Hello, in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or documentviewer. But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then I have to go to Windows to open it. What is so spectacular about these files that they cannot be read by the above

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

2018-11-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-26 2:45 p.m., Gary Dale wrote: For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

2018-10-01 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-26 19:45, Gary Dale wrote: For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the document

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

2018-09-30 Thread SDA
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 02:45:18PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped > accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a > preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but >

Re: Ghostscript produces much larger pdf files now

2018-09-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 8:01 AM Flo wrote: > > I recompiled the versions 9.24, 9.23 and 9.22: > It changed from 9.22 to 9.23 . Does anyone has an idea what changed here > such that the size of the pdf files are bigger? > > Flo. I do not know much about ghostscr

Re: Ghostscript produces much larger pdf files now

2018-09-29 Thread Flo
I recompiled the versions 9.24, 9.23 and 9.22: It changed from 9.22 to 9.23 . Does anyone has an idea what changed here such that the size of the pdf files are bigger? Flo. On 09/28/18 23:54, Flo wrote: > Dear All, > > I am using ghostscript to make pdf files smaller. > > T

Ghostscript produces much larger pdf files now

2018-09-28 Thread Flo
Dear All, I am using ghostscript to make pdf files smaller. Three days ago I upgraded my system and now I am running 9.25 . However the size of the pdf files increased significantly. I guess a default value changed. Does anyone know about it. I'd like to have it the way as it worked before

Re: Scribus has stopped importing PDF files

2018-09-27 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped > accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a > preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but > some

Scribus has stopped importing PDF files - repost - original thread was hijacked

2018-09-26 Thread Gary Dale
For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the document still show the preview. When I

Scribus has stopped importing PDF files

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Dale
For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the document still show the preview. When I

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
There's a newer package gimagereader — graphical GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gimagereader . Can that help? -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/11/14 12:17, Gary Roach wrote: On 11/01/2014 06:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/10/14 11:47, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/01/2014 06:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/10/14 11:47, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. I'm

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
There's a open source tool named OCRmyPDF which claims to do what you're trying to do: see https://github.com/fritz-hh/OCRmyPDF As far as I understand, it makes use of standard GNU/Linux software and produces a searchable pdf file (which implies in my understanding that the text is extractable). I

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/31/2014 04:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/31/2014 06:31 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, This is part of a medium sized, low budget archiving project that will process serveral thousand documents, all done by low tech volunteers. So I really need

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/10/14 11:47, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. I'm not sure what you mean by text *overlay

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-31 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. Tesseract seems to do a really great job

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-31 Thread Doug
On 10/31/2014 06:31 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, This is part of a medium sized, low budget archiving project that will process serveral thousand documents, all done by low tech volunteers. So I really need methods that are straight forward or can

proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-30 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. System: Debian Wheezy Intel i5-750 processor HP Officejet Pro

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-30 Thread Doug
On 10/30/2014 08:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. System: Debian Wheezy Intel i5

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/14 08:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. System: Debian Wheezy Intel i5-750

Re: Notities toevoegen aan PDF files

2014-05-27 Thread Jan van Gemert
op 27-05-14 11:47, Paul van der Vlis schreef: op 26-05-14 22:09, Jan van Gemert schreef: op 26-05-14 18:25, Paul van der Vlis schreef: op 26-05-14 15:11, Matijs van Zuijlen schreef: Ik gebruik meestal Xournal, dat werkt goed. De opties van Evince zijn vrij beperkt vergeleken met wat PDF

Notities toevoegen aan PDF files

2014-05-26 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hallo, Hebben jullie ervaring met een programma wat notities kan toevoegen aan PDF-files, en waarmee je stukken kunt markeren? Het moet kunnen draaien op Debian stable. En uiteraard het liefst open source zijn. Ik denk aan Xournal, Mendely of Scribus. Een nieuwe versie van Evince zou ook een

Re: Notities toevoegen aan PDF files

2014-05-26 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hallo, Hebben jullie ervaring met een programma wat notities kan toevoegen aan PDF-files, en waarmee je stukken kunt markeren? Het moet kunnen draaien op Debian stable. En uiteraard het liefst open source zijn. Ik denk aan Xournal, Mendely of Scribus. Een nieuwe

Re: Notities toevoegen aan PDF files

2014-05-26 Thread Paul van der Vlis
, Hebben jullie ervaring met een programma wat notities kan toevoegen aan PDF-files, en waarmee je stukken kunt markeren? Het moet kunnen draaien op Debian stable. En uiteraard het liefst open source zijn. Ik denk aan Xournal, Mendely of Scribus. Een nieuwe versie van Evince zou ook een optie

Re: Notities toevoegen aan PDF files

2014-05-26 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 26-05-14 15:11, Matijs van Zuijlen schreef: Ik gebruik meestal Xournal, dat werkt goed. De opties van Evince zijn vrij beperkt vergeleken met wat PDF toestaat. Aan de andere kant heeft Evince het voordeel dat notities in de PDF zelf opgeslagen worden en dus door andere PDF-viewers bekeken

Re: Notities toevoegen aan PDF files

2014-05-26 Thread Jan van Gemert
op 26-05-14 18:25, Paul van der Vlis schreef: op 26-05-14 15:11, Matijs van Zuijlen schreef: Ik gebruik meestal Xournal, dat werkt goed. De opties van Evince zijn vrij beperkt vergeleken met wat PDF toestaat. Aan de andere kant heeft Evince het voordeel dat notities in de PDF zelf opgeslagen

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net wrote: Hello richard, richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form was blank. Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread richard
on 14 Jan 2012 15:39:44 -0500 John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-01-14, Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: Acroread should be

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Weaver
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net wrote: Hello richard, richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form was blank. Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread green
Weaver wrote at 2012-01-15 05:44 -0600: You can scan it back in at your end and attach it. Or fill it out, print it to cups-pdf, then attach the resulting PDF. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net wrote: Hello richard, richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form was blank. Always worth

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Siard
Curt: Siard: Curt: Siard: Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. It is? In Wheezy: $ apt-cache policy acroread acroread: Installed: 9.4.6-0.1 ... http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages ... When

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Siard
Jude DaShiell wrote: can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment or is this strictly gui? Not sure what you want. You can do a 'acroread filename.pdf', but of course you will need X for a PDF viewer. There are a few things you can do on the command line using acroread,

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net wrote: Hello richard, richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form was blank. Always worth checking a file

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited. --

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 18:50 +0100, Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:01 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote: Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:50:21 +, richard wrote: Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. (...) PDFedit, but don't expect the same results/options/level of management that you would have with Acrobat Professional. When it comes to PDF edition software Adobe is nowadays the king

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Hugo writes: and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? Filling in blanks in forms created for the purpose is not editing to me (though it is still misuse of the PDF format). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
hvw59601 wrote: Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
hvw59601: Siard wrote: hvw59601 wrote: and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters either. And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry. ?? You're the

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-14, Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. It is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:44 +0100, Siard wrote: hvw59601: Siard wrote: hvw59601 wrote: and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters either. And I

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:14 +0100 Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: hvw59601: Siard wrote: hvw59601 wrote: and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other

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