Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? In Firefox, Edit-Preferences, click the Applications tab, look for application/pdf and make the obvious adjustments. I find that for nearly everything else, chromium works better than firefox, but for PACER, only Firefox supports RECAP. You do use RECAP, I hope. R's, John PS: On my FBSD 9.0, acroread8 works OK, much slower than evince but in some cases it renders the PDF better, and often translates to postscript better for printing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
Hi, Reference: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:10:16 -0700 (MST) Message-id: alpine.bsf.2.00.1212112008090.8...@wonkity.com Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Remove acroread entirely. Install graphics/xpdf. Click on a PDF link, tell Firefox to use xpdf and do that for all files of this type. Be aware xpdf will not do quite all PDF files that (horribly slow) acroread can (ie new PDFs with data entry forms xml). I use xpdf all I can for normal reading of PDF tech specs etc, use acroread just for filling in UK corporation tax return PDFs, though freebsd has other solutions that may work for those pdf/xml too. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with . Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 05:16:12PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around. I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm] federal courts web site. These are not free. They cost ten cents per page. I tried to download a 29 page document and it downloaded into firefox just fine and then was displayed in a new firefox tab which was apparently using acroread8 to display the document. I know from past experience that acroreadN runs like crap on FreeBSD... often using up enormous amounts of CPU % for no apparently good reason. But this time it really got my goat. I clicked on the little acroread icon for printing the current document, a pop-up dialog box for printing came up, but before I could hit the print button on that, everything relating to firefox... all open tabs and all open windows... froze up solid. Now, having wasted three bucks for no good reason (and STILL not having a hardcopy of the document I wanted), I am motivated to finally get this sorted out. So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? The first thing to do should simply be to uninstall acroread. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around. I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm] federal courts web site. These are not free. They cost ten cents per page. I tried to download a 29 page document and it downloaded into firefox just fine and then was displayed in a new firefox tab which was apparently using acroread8 to display the document. I know from past experience that acroreadN runs like crap on FreeBSD... often using up enormous amounts of CPU % for no apparently good reason. But this time it really got my goat. I clicked on the little acroread icon for printing the current document, a pop-up dialog box for printing came up, but before I could hit the print button on that, everything relating to firefox... all open tabs and all open windows... froze up solid. Now, having wasted three bucks for no good reason (and STILL not having a hardcopy of the document I wanted), I am motivated to finally get this sorted out. So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Or do I have to fire up my Windows machine, just to print out a lousey PDF ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
12.12.2012 12:16, Ronald F. Guilmette пишет: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Or do I have to fire up my Windows machine, just to print out a lousey PDF ? pdf_download extention for firefox will help you to control links to pdf files (open in tab, download, open with another reader) -- Dima Panov (flu...@freebsd.org) (KDE, Office)@FreeBSD team Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fluffy.khv IRC: fluffy@EFNet, fluffykhv@FreeNode twitter: fluffy_khv | skype: dima.panov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Remove acroread entirely. Install graphics/xpdf. Click on a PDF link, tell Firefox to use xpdf and do that for all files of this type. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:10:16 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Remove acroread entirely. Install graphics/xpdf. Click on a PDF link, tell Firefox to use xpdf and do that for all files of this type. The xpdf program seems to _sometimes_ have problems with carelessly created PDF documents. The best idea would be to use a Firefox extension (as suggested) to first _download_ and _save_ the PDF file to disk for further use. Then, testing xpdf and using it to print the file would be much easier. If the file has been paid for, it can be opened several times whatever program should be tested. For example, even gv or zathura could be tried. And in the end, even acroread. Even _I_ have to admit that I'm using it from time to time, even if it REDEFINES THE MOUSE CURSOR to an ugly white arrow! What a stupid move... However, for paid content, first saving, then using, would be the best way to deal with it. So the in-line processing chain consisting of Firefox + somehow embedded acroread (really?) could be split, so the reason for the system freeze could be determined. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
