On Sat 08 Jul 2023 at 22:28:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > On 7/8/23 3:58 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:35:43 -0700 > > Paul Scott <waterhorsemu...@aol.com> wrote: > > > > > Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to > > > set what program does print preview for Zathura? I would Zathura > > > would be a possibility. > > charles@jhegaala:~$ apt-cache show zathura | grep -i homepage > > Homepage: https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura > > charles@jhegaala:~$ > Thank you! > > > > > My problem is discovering whether a PDF will fit well enough on an > > > 8"x11" sheet of paper. > > Most PDF viewers will let you see the properties, which should include > > the page size. And, depending on your printer software (CUPS on > > Debian), you may be able to scale a document. > > > So far I have found the Zathura "info" command but it doesn't tell me the > page size.
Install poppler-utils and use pdfinfo and pdffonts. > The print dialog does indeed give me the ability to scale. > > Another problem I am now having looks like a missing font. Zathura displays > the document (music) fine but when I print (CUPS) some of the graphical > information is missing. The file displayed by zathura is not the file that is sent to the printing system. The latter can be viewed by using Print to File. The print dialog converts your PDF to a new PDF with Cairo Graphics. Scaling is also done by Cairo Graphics. CUPS is not involved. -- Brian.