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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:53:56 +0000 (UTC)
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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