[gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread

[gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread

[Grant Edwards]

For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
(usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).
Acroread is only available as a 32-bit binary and it required that
_89_ packages be built with a 32-bit ABI use flag.  [There are various
other reasons to dislike acroread, but that's the one the really
bugged me...]

When I noticed that the latest versions of Qoppa's PDFStudio has added
the "print current view" feature, I happily coughed up the $36 to
upgrade.

Emerge is now busy rebuilding those 89 packages without the 32-bit ABI
use flags.

-- 
Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread

[Mick]

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On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote:
> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
> current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
> (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).
> Acroread is only available as a 32-bit binary and it required that
> _89_ packages be built with a 32-bit ABI use flag.  [There are various
> other reasons to dislike acroread, but that's the one the really
> bugged me...]
> 
> When I noticed that the latest versions of Qoppa's PDFStudio has added
> the "print current view" feature, I happily coughed up the $36 to
> upgrade.
> 
> Emerge is now busy rebuilding those 89 packages without the 32-bit ABI
> use flags.

I haven't used acroread or Qoppa's PDFStudio, but qpdfview and okular will 
copy and save selections as images, which you can save and print thereafter.  
If you prefer to work on a terminal mutool will also extract images.
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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
>> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
>> current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
>> (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).

[...]

> I haven't used acroread or Qoppa's PDFStudio, but qpdfview and okular will 
> copy and save selections as images, which you can save and print thereafter.

Does it save them in a vector format so that they scale and print
properly, or does it rasterize them?

> If you prefer to work on a terminal mutool will also extract images.

I don't ever need to extract/print images.

-- 
Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

[Mick]

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On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 21:53:56 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
> >> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
> >> current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
> >> (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I haven't used acroread or Qoppa's PDFStudio, but qpdfview and okular will
> > copy and save selections as images, which you can save and print
> > thereafter.
> Does it save them in a vector format so that they scale and print
> properly, or does it rasterize them?

Ahh!  These apps offer Save As png/jpeg formats only.

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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 21:53:56 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> >>
>> >> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
>> >> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
>> >> current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
>> >> (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > I haven't used acroread or Qoppa's PDFStudio, but qpdfview and okular will
>> > copy and save selections as images, which you can save and print
>> > thereafter.
>> Does it save them in a vector format so that they scale and print
>> properly, or does it rasterize them?
>
> Ahh!  These apps offer Save As png/jpeg formats only.

That can be useful if there aren't any other options, but it tends to
be a hassle.  You have to crank up the DPI setting pretty high on the
rasterization operation, and then you end up with image files that
some printers seem to choke on. Our (admittedly ancient) LasertJet
8150 seems to be particulary bad handling large, hi-DPI image files.

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Re: [gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread

[Zhu Sha Zang]

Hey dude, i have acroread installed but use okular since long time ago. 
In fact my i was in doubt if acroread still installed. I'll uninstall 
acroread, but how to recompile packages without 32-bit ABI? Is there a 
smart way or I need to change e recompile each one?


Best regards.


On 10/22/2016 09:32 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
> current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
> (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).
> Acroread is only available as a 32-bit binary and it required that
> _89_ packages be built with a 32-bit ABI use flag.  [There are various
> other reasons to dislike acroread, but that's the one the really
> bugged me...]
>
> When I noticed that the latest versions of Qoppa's PDFStudio has added
> the "print current view" feature, I happily coughed up the $36 to
> upgrade.
>
> Emerge is now busy rebuilding those 89 packages without the 32-bit ABI
> use flags.
>

[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-10-25, Zhu Sha Zang <zhushazang@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Hey dude, i have acroread installed but use okular since long time
> ago.  In fact my i was in doubt if acroread still installed. I'll
> uninstall acroread, but how to recompile packages without 32-bit
> ABI? Is there a smart way or I need to change e recompile each one?

In /etc/portage/packages.use, remove the abi_x86_32 USE flags from the
packages to which it was added to make acroread happy.

Then do an "emerge -avND world"

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