Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

[<wabenbau@gmail.com>]

Am Montag, 09.03.2015 um 14:24
schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>:

> On 2015-03-07, <wabenbau@gmail.com> <wabenbau@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 06.03.2015 um 22:42
> > schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>:
> >
> >> What is a good acroread replacement?
> >
> > I use qpdfview. I like it because of it's bookmarks, tabs and
> > rendering quality. 
> >
> > If you don't want QT stuff then you can try atril instead. It is a
> > very simple but also very fast PDF-Viewer.
> >
> > With both programs it is possible to print whole documents or single
> > pages without problems. But it is not possible to print partial
> > pages.
> >
> > I never had a need for such a feature, but would probably use gimp
> > for that purpose. 
> 
> I thought gimp dealt exclusively with bitmapped graphics?  It can view
> and print PDF files?  One other problem is that the printers I have
> access to don't deal well with large high-res bitmap data, so I'd like
> to stick with vector formats.

Indeed GIMP still can't handle vector graphics. When you open a PDF file
with GIMP, you can choose the resolution (dpi) you wanna have. Then GIMP
imports the PDF file and converts it to bitmap format.

I never had problems with printing large bitmap graphics on any of my
printers (some HP, some Epson and one Lexmark printer) as long as I had
enough RAM. But I think this also depends on the printer driver.

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Regards
wabe