From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D43138CA3 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D1CDE08D5; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23096E08CA for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YU0wt-0003lE-0o for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:42:27 +0100 Received: from 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net ([67.130.15.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:42:27 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:42:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Replacement for acroread on 64bit system? Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 5eb65319-9e82-4184-a6b4-f06eeda9d17d X-Archives-Hash: e44272cd292e1105f9e8985d5376c2ff What is a good acroread replacement? I'm not sure what changed, but as of a few weeks ago I can no longer install acroread on my AMD64 system (something to do with x86 emulation librarys being blocked by something in the Xorg server). I decided to try to live without acroread. I've been using evince and emacs, and they're both satasifactory most of the time, but they fall down when it comes to printing. One of the things I like to be able to do is to open up a PDF document and print a portion of one of a page in a size that fills a single 8.5x11 sheet. This is trivial in acroread, but impossible in evince or emacs (actually I can't figure out how to print at all in either one). Being able to print a portion of a page is particularly useful for things like printing out an area of interest from a C size schematic or printing a single table from a user manual or datasheet. How do I do that without acroread? [I'm running an XFCE desktop, so would prefer something that doesn't pull in a gigabyte of Gnome or KDE dependancies.] Yes, I _have_ figured out how to do it with various command line tools (pdftk, psresize, etc.), but that involves 20 minutes of trial and error (and dozens of sheets going into the recycle bin) to do something that would take 20 seconds in acroread (and work on the first try). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I have a VISION! It's at a RANCID double-FISHWICH on gmail.com an ENRICHED BUN!!