From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] acroread woes
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:31:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201407251031.25223.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140723T163042-339@post.gmane.org>
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On Wednesday 23 Jul 2014 15:48:08 James wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I have acroread 9.5.5 installed. It is set as the default pdf
> reader for both seamoney and firefox. I mostly use seamonkey, because
> it allows for page/font sizing on the fly, via the mouse wheel (middle
> button on my logitech mouse). I'd use firefox more, if I could figure
> out dynamic font size adjustments, via the mouse wheel under firebox.
> Maybe an addon does this? Scrolling fonts sizes is quinessentially
> important to old eyes, imho.
Ctrl+scroll works here with Firefox for zooming in or out.
> On seamonkey, when I follow a web link to a pdf, I just get a black page on
> my browser. Under firefox, I get the pdf to open up to be read,
> but can only print postscript files, unless I go to the
> adobe web site; which is not an option for me.
I have set FF to ask whether to open or save. I can open with qpdfviewer
which is my default pdf viewer application. No problems printing pdf
documents with it.
> I'm looking for a long term solution that easily allows both
> viewing and download of the pdf file; that's how acroread use
> to work. Googling yeilds a myriad of choices and viewpoints, but
> I've not found any solutions I'm happy with.
Isn't this a matter of setting it up your browser (any browser) to ask you
what to do with pdf content? Check under Preferences/Applications/pdf.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-25 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 14:48 [gentoo-user] acroread woes James
2014-07-24 22:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-07-25 1:28 ` Jc García
2014-07-25 15:26 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-07-25 7:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2014-07-25 9:31 ` Mick [this message]
2014-07-26 2:23 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-07-26 8:18 ` Mick
2014-07-26 3:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
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