Re: some PDFs fail to render using okular/evince/zathura on FC36

2022-10-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
df, and the phone uses the tools > provided by google to view the pdf, tuned to work with the creation > tools, so the errors aren't evident. > _____ Thanks for the detailed response. When I save the document and open with evince, I get: Unable to open

Re: some PDFs fail to render using okular/evince/zathura on FC36

2022-10-06 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 23:35:57 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > Over the past few months, I have noticed that some PDF documents do > not render on Fedora 36 using zathura, evince or okular. The PDF > document, however renders fine on my phone. All of them are PDF

some PDFs fail to render using okular/evince/zathura on FC36

2022-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, Over the past few months, I have noticed that some PDF documents do not render on Fedora 36 using zathura, evince or okular. The PDF document, however renders fine on my phone. All of them are PDF, version 1.5, and they were sent to me by email, which I read using mutt. What

Evince sendto (share) button greyed out

2021-05-12 Thread Anca, Tibor
Hello, since the switch to Fedora 40 I notice this odd change, that neither nautilus context menu (Sendto entry missing), nor evince share/ sendto button work. The latter doesn't work at all which makes things unnecessary complicated. I understand that the package nautilus-sendto has been

Re: printer/evince

2020-02-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
an Epson WF-2760 (connection through the internet). I can print a pdf file > by using xpdf without > the option of recto-verso. > If I use evince (which has the recto-verso option), the job is > stopped, and does not print. > > How can

printer/evince

2020-02-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On an Epson WF-2760 (connection through the internet). I can print a pdf file by using xpdf without the option of recto-verso. If I use evince (which has the recto-verso option), the job is stopped, and does not print. How can I solve the issue? Thanks

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:53:27 +0100 Louis Lagendijk wrote: > Printing is there in the menu on the right: it is the leftmost icon in > the top row I think they held a contest to see who could come up with a design to most effectively hide the controls for evince. T

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Dave Stevens
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 17:35:10 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/04/18 16:54, stan wrote: > > I presume they think the > > learning curve for multiple platform interfaces is more costly than > > the diminished user interface on larger screens. > . > I wonder if a stabdard set of three letter

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/5/18 6:34 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > I mean, why on > Earth would you need a sign next to the M5 to warn people about bad > umbrellas anyway? High wind area ahead, obviously. -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/4/18 1:54 PM, stan wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 15:28:13 -0500 > Fred Smith wrote: > >> there seems to be a widespread desire to make UIs so minimal that >> no one can figure out how to use them. Not to single out anyone, but >> the Gnome-3 people seem to be on that bandwagon too. No

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/04/18 16:54, stan wrote: I presume they think the learning curve for multiple platform interfaces is more costly than the diminished user interface on larger screens. . I wonder if a stabdard set of three letter abbreviations might not be better ... -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia,

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread stan
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 15:28:13 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: > there seems to be a widespread desire to make UIs so minimal that > no one can figure out how to use them. Not to single out anyone, but > the Gnome-3 people seem to be on that bandwagon too. No offense meant > to any particular person(s),

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:17:28PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/04/18 14:20, Rick Stevens wrote: > >I'm using Xfce as well with the LightDM display manager and there's > >no text associated with the icon, just the icon (which sort of looks > >like an abstract inkjet printer with a page going

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Fred Smith
could come up with a design to > most effectively hide the controls for evince. Took me about 20 minutes > to find it when I first wanted to print something in new evince. there seems to be a widespread desire to make UIs so minimal that no one can figure out how to use them. Not to single out an

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/04/18 14:20, Rick Stevens wrote: I'm using Xfce as well with the LightDM display manager and there's no text associated with the icon, just the icon (which sort of looks like an abstract inkjet printer with a page going through it). Are the developers running obfuscation contests that

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/4/18 11:09 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 12/04/18 13:53, Louis Lagendijk wrote: >> Printing is there in the menu on the right: it is the leftmost icon in >> the top row >> /Louis > . > Yes that is where I normally find it, I would click on the word "Print" > in the list that the

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/4/18 11:06 AM, Mike Wright wrote: > On 12/4/18 11:01 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On my evince (V3.30.2), you can click on the hamburger stack > > > And all this time I thought those were pancakes. Well, I guess you could "insert stacked food of your preference

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/04/18 13:53, Louis Lagendijk wrote: Printing is there in the menu on the right: it is the leftmost icon in the top row /Louis . Yes that is where I normally find it, I would click on the word "Print" in the list that the left-most icon brings up, but "Print" is no longer there.

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/4/18 11:01 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On my evince (V3.30.2), you can click on the hamburger stack And all this time I thought those were pancakes. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/4/18 10:53 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 13:40 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> . >> In Fedora 29 Evince has no "Print" function despite what its help >> page >> says. How can I restore it? >> >> Bob >> > > P

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:53:27 +0100 Louis Lagendijk wrote: > Printing is there in the menu on the right: it is the leftmost icon in > the top row I think they held a contest to see who could come up with a design to most effectively hide the controls for evince. Took me about 20 m

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 13:40 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > . > In Fedora 29 Evince has no "Print" function despite what its help > page > says. How can I restore it? > > Bob > Printing is there in the menu on the right: it is the leftmost

Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
. In Fedora 29 Evince has no "Print" function despite what its help page says. How can I restore it? Bob From evince help: * To print a document: 1. Click theFile optionsmenu in the top right corner and selectPrintor pressCtrl+P. 2. Choose yo

Fedora-29 + Evince -

2018-11-08 Thread Bob Goodwin
. I  was never able to configure Fedora-28 to fit my needs, however Fedora-29 [upgraded daily] has gone much better and I have actually been able to use it for a few days. Now I find that evince has had its "View Options" removed. I use the the Inverted Colors menu feature to read

evince question concerning numerical calculations in PDF forms

2016-10-09 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all Fedora users, can anybody explain why evince is unable to perform calculations with numerical rows or columns of pdf forms? So I must continue to use acroread or foxit reader for such operations :-( All comments are welcome. Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 24 (Twenty

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/18/2014 09:51 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/18/2014 06:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have used k3b on gnome desktop for a looong time. It is the CD/DVD burner tool of choice. Now that I am switching to Xfce, after being introduced to it on the Fedora 19 20 armv7 remixes, I still

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
okular. And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortment of other document formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on. Okular is indeed the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. What disqualifies

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/18/2014 06:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have used k3b on gnome desktop for a looong time. It is the CD/DVD burner tool of choice. Now that I am switching to Xfce, after being introduced to it on the Fedora 19 20 armv7 remixes, I still use it for my CD/DVD burning. I also used K3B

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-17 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
MasterPdfEditor is horribly slow to display my pdfs, which contain matplotlib pdfs with thousands of data points. evince is very fast at this. evince chokes on PDF files with heavy bitmap-image content, like dense city GIS maps. (Probably due to poorly-implemented scaling internally; gtk

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-17 Thread Roger Wells
On 12/17/2014 08:47 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: MasterPdfEditor is horribly slow to display my pdfs, which contain matplotlib pdfs with thousands of data points. evince is very fast at this. evince chokes on PDF files with heavy bitmap-image content, like dense city GIS maps

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-17 Thread Andras Simon
2014-12-17 0:45 GMT+01:00, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au: Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code complexity is in the creation and

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code complexity is in the creation

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Roger Wells roger.k.we...@leidos.com wrote: On 12/17/2014 08:47 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: MasterPdfEditor is horribly slow to display my pdfs, which contain matplotlib pdfs with thousands of data points. evince is very fast at this. evince

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on. Okular is indeed the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. What disqualifies okular for me is this: # yum install okular ... Install 1 Package (+50 Dependent packages) ... Total

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
, but a whole assortment of other document formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on. Okular is indeed the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. What disqualifies okular for me is this: # yum install okular

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Butrus Damaskus
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? Being a happy KDE user, I like

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/15/2014 11:12 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2014 03:15 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So here I am setting up my new F21 system and of course pdf processing is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. I have an annoying issue with PDF. I have evince installed, but when I

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/16/2014 12:44 AM, Doug wrote: Have you looked at Master PDF Editor, as I mentioned in a previous post to this list? --doug running fedora21.. tried to install Master-pdf-editor: # rpm -i master*.rpm file / from install of master-pdf-editor-2.1.90-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have an annoying issue with PDF. I have evince installed, but when I click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a window, then Just tried it out of curiosity on a Lenovo laptop with bog standard F21 and thunderbird. No problems here

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 10:11 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 12/16/2014 10:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: This probably doesn't matter much to kde users, but pulling in 50 additional packages and 176 M to me is a serious issue. Just as point of comparison, ... LibreOffice on Linux

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Joe Wulf wrote: evince has worked well for me for a good number of years now, and I use cups-pdf for 'printing' pdf's of web pages and such. No issues here with either. From: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Neal Becker
Kevin Martin wrote: Master PDF editor is quite nice but, strangely, when it comes to filling in PDF forms evince works better I've found. However if you need to actually fill in a PDF that doesn't have form fields master PDF editor is the way to go. Regards, Kevin Martin Sent from

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/16/2014 06:52 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 16.12.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have an annoying issue with PDF. I have evince installed, but when I click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a window, then Just tried it out of curiosity on a Lenovo laptop with bog standard

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2014 08:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 12/16/2014 08:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: # dnf install libreoffice Install 85 Packages Total download size: 126 M Installed size: 393 M Yes, ... this is an issue, as

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2014 12:33 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/16/2014 12:44 AM, Doug wrote: Have you looked at Master PDF Editor, as I mentioned in a previous post to this list? --doug running fedora21.. tried to install Master-pdf-editor: # rpm -i master*.rpm file / from install of

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Kevin Martin
On 12/16/2014 06:13 AM, Neal Becker wrote: Joe Wulf wrote: evince has worked well for me for a good number of years now, and I use cups-pdf for 'printing' pdf's of web pages and such. No issues here with either. From: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com To: Community support

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Master PDF editor is quite nice but, strangely, when it comes to filling in PDF forms evince works better I've found. However if you need to actually fill in a PDF that doesn't have form fields master PDF editor is the way to go Thanks a lot for the hint, the screenshots look definitivly

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code complexity is in the creation and modification. The point is that as any software becomes more

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Paul Cartwright sent: when I click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a window, then crashes. once I save the attachment to my HD, double-click opens it.. Fedora21.. As a test, you could try changing the default application to something

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-16 16:45, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code complexity is in the creation and modification. The point is that as

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-16 05:14, Neal Becker wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I

So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So here I am setting up my new F21 system and of course pdf processing is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. So I went to get acrobat, and it seems to be truly gone. I see a thread of people running it in Wine. I shutter at the thought, though I suppose if ya got to. I

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortment of other document

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Joe Wulf
evince has worked well for me for a good number of years now, and I use cups-pdf for 'printing' pdf's of web pages and such.  No issues here with either. From: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Doug
On 12/15/2014 09:47 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)? Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I use it not just

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Kevin Martin
Master PDF editor is quite nice but, strangely, when it comes to filling in PDF forms evince works better I've found. However if you need to actually fill in a PDF that doesn't have form fields master PDF editor is the way to go. Regards, Kevin Martin Sent from my Tab Pro running Kitkat

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/16/2014 03:15 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So here I am setting up my new F21 system and of course pdf processing is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. So had I. Besides evince's various UI-usability issues (Admitted, these are mostly a matter of taste), https

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de said: For now, I am using evince, firefox's built-in pdf reader and the old acroread. However, actually, I am disatified with all three of them, but haven't found a convincing alternative, yet. Are there any alternatives to Adobe's version

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/15/2014 11:12 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2014 03:15 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So here I am setting up my new F21 system and of course pdf processing is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. So had I. Besides evince's various UI-usability issues (Admitted

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Doug
On 12/16/2014 12:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/15/2014 11:12 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2014 03:15 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So here I am setting up my new F21 system and of course pdf processing is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. So had I. Besides

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
with evince. So had I. Besides evince's various UI-usability issues (Admitted, these are mostly a matter of taste), https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161374 renders evince almost non-applicable to me. I have AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm here on my F20 system

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince I've been using evince a lot during my mastergrade studies, and it worked for me. For special cases as e.g. pdf annotation I've been using Xournal. I agree that okular is somewhat

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
my new F21 system and of course pdf processing is a must, and on F20, I had many problems with evince. So had I. Besides evince's various UI-usability issues (Admitted, these are mostly a matter of taste), https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161374 renders evince almost non

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Sudhir Khanger
desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. -- Regards, Sudhir Khanger, sudhirkhanger.com, github.com/donniezazen, 5577 8CDB A059 085D 1D60 807F 8C00 45D9 F5EF C394. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Paul Allen Newell
the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. I have discovered that evince doesn't seem to understand adobe's syntax of fname.pdf#page=404 ... any of these alternatives capable? Or am I missing something

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. What disqualifies okular for me is this: # yum install okular ... Install 1 Package (+50 Dependent packages) ... Total download size: 70 M Installed size: 176 M

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Chris Murphy
of other document formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on. Okular is indeed the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. What disqualifies okular for me is this: # yum install okular ... Install 1

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 12/16/2014 10:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: This probably doesn't matter much to kde users, but pulling in 50 additional packages and 176 M to me is a serious issue. Just as point of comparison, ... LibreOffice on Linux is not some Tonka Toy app (although Tonka Toys are badass, they're

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
it not just for pdf, but a whole assortment of other document formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on. Okular is indeed the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't have annotation tools as rich as Okular's. What disqualifies okular for me

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Chris Murphy
Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Being a happy KDE user, I like okular. And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortment of other document formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on. Okular is indeed the best pdf reader irrespective of what desktop environment you use. Evince doesn't

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-15 Thread poma
For future reference, consider these two font families: - The Liberation Fonts https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts - The Ubuntu Font Family http://font.ubuntu.com poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/13/2014 05:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
better in rendering the font, but the chosen font is this little skinny font that is really not readable and will not project well compared with whatever font evince is using. # yum install AdobeReader_enu Do you have all these packages? -- users mailing list users

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Ahmad Samir
on the screen for some reason there are all sorts of vertical lines next to many of the characters. If I recall/understand correctly, Adobe Reader uses font antialiasing by default, something called Cooltype; whereas evince, and almost all the Linux PDF readers built against poppler, don't apply any

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 19:56 -1000, Robert Moskowitz wrote: it is almost readable on the LCD, but when it gets projected on the screen for some reason there are all sorts of vertical lines next to many of the characters. That sounds like ringing, often caused by bad cabling, or badly designed

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Anthony Shipman
On Wed, 14 May 2014 04:06:43 pm Robert Moskowitz wrote: A little better in rendering the font, but the chosen font is this little skinny font that is really not readable and will not project well compared with whatever font evince is using. Is the example at http://i.imgur.com/8hrG3Tp.png

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/14/2014 12:33 AM, Anthony Shipman wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2014 04:06:43 pm Robert Moskowitz wrote: A little better in rendering the font, but the chosen font is this little skinny font that is really not readable and will not project well compared with whatever font evince is using

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Ed Greshko
compared with whatever font evince is using. Is the example at http://i.imgur.com/8hrG3Tp.png the sort of thing that you are seeing? I have a few documents like this. Yep. That is what I am seeing in Acrobat. The pdffonts program reports, for one of them: pdffonts USB\ 3.1\ Specification

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
not readable and will not project well compared with whatever font evince is using. Is the example at http://i.imgur.com/8hrG3Tp.png the sort of thing that you are seeing? I have a few documents like this. Yep. That is what I am seeing in Acrobat. The pdffonts program reports, for one of them

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Nice, but that means you have to do the build yourself. Is this in any additional repos for Fedora? As I understand it, licensing of the fonts prevents distribution that way.

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 05/14/14 14:42, Alan Evans wrote: Nice, but that means you have to do the build yourself. Is this in any additional repos for Fedora? As I understand it, licensing of the fonts prevents distribution that way. But I did it once and rebuilding the spec file as per their

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Mike Wright
is this little skinny font that is really not readable and will not project well compared with whatever font evince is using. Is the example at http://i.imgur.com/8hrG3Tp.png the sort of thing that you are seeing? I have a few documents like this. Yep. That is what I am seeing in Acrobat

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
better in rendering the font, but the chosen font is this little skinny font that is really not readable and will not project well compared with whatever font evince is using. Is the example at http://i.imgur.com/8hrG3Tp.png the sort of thing that you are seeing? I have a few documents like this. Yep

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Anthony Shipman
On Thu, 15 May 2014 05:16:16 am Robert Moskowitz wrote: OK. That points to an rpm. I downloaded it and did a 'yum localinstall' which also installed cabextract as a dependency. And still Acrobat is using the wrong font. :( It seemed to take a little time before the system started using

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/14/2014 02:47 PM, Anthony Shipman wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014 05:16:16 am Robert Moskowitz wrote: OK. That points to an rpm. I downloaded it and did a 'yum localinstall' which also installed cabextract as a dependency. And still Acrobat is using the wrong font. :( It seemed to take

Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the monitor in the meeting room. But switching to Evince document viewer, the fonts are 'normal' and readable by myself

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
to refer to standard postscript fonts that are supposed to be built-in that acrobat goes completely looney. Other PDF documents have no problem in acrobat. I gave up a long time ago and just use evince all the time. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the monitor in the meeting room. ... I don't

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/13/2014 05:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the

Re: evince

2013-12-04 Thread Patrick Dupre
In looking at the document's properties and selecting the fonts tab I noticed that it was using /usr/share/fonts/google-croscore/SymbolNeu.ttf for symbols on my F19 system. This comes with the google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts package. Erasing this package resulted in a delta being

Re: evince

2013-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
]$ echo Δ | od -bc 000 316 224 012 316 224 \n For completeness.. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ echo ∅ | od -bc 000 342 210 205 012 342 210 205 \n Pretty sure this is an evince issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037882 -- Getting tired of non

Re: evince

2013-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/04/13 18:37, Ed Greshko wrote: The fact that it fails with the google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts package as well would indicate that it isn't a font file issue. In fact, if you use something such as the Gnome Character Map you'd see that the character displays properly in that app no

Re: evince

2013-12-04 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2013, Ed Greshko sent: The fact that it fails with the google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts package as well would indicate that it isn't a font file issue. In fact, if you use something such as the Gnome Character Map you'd see that the character displays

Re: evince

2013-12-04 Thread poma
On 04.12.2013 11:37, Ed Greshko wrote: [egreshko@meimei F20-TC4]$ echo Δ | od -bc You are running ahead, Ed. F20 ain't an official, so https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: evince

2013-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/04/13 19:16, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2013, Ed Greshko sent: The fact that it fails with the google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts package as well would indicate that it isn't a font file issue. In fact, if you use something such as the Gnome Character Map you'd see that

Re: evince

2013-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/04/13 19:59, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/04/13 19:16, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2013, Ed Greshko sent: The fact that it fails with the google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts package as well would indicate that it isn't a font file issue. In fact, if you use something such as

Re: evince

2013-12-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/27/13 23:18, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, The viewing ot the attached file is correct with xpsd and acroread, but is wrong with evince. The correct character is a \Delta with the wrong character for me is \Phi. Would you know what is wrong? This may be late. In looking

Re: evince

2013-12-03 Thread poma
On 04.12.2013 02:32, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, the same issue exists in the current F20 Beta. I'll be filling a bugzilla on this. Getting tired of questioning about what's the bug number. poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: evince

2013-12-03 Thread David
On 12/3/2013 8:39 PM, poma wrote: On 04.12.2013 02:32, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, the same issue exists in the current F20 Beta. I'll be filling a bugzilla on this. Getting tired of questioning about what's the bug number. poma Easy solution? Stop asking. -- David --

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