Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[kaye n]

I use Evince to print pdf's. It's really good. I think you can press
alt+enter and see the paper size, i.e. what type of paper you should use to
print - short bond, legal, A4

I think it shows up as "Document Viewer" in the menu.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 8:05 PM Klaus Singvogel 
wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:07:34 +0200
> > Erwan David  wrote:
> >
> > > Le 25/06/2020 à 09:41, Klaus Singvogel a écrit :
> > > >
> > > > Btw, if you know a Form capable PDF viewer, which is FOSS, let me
> know.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Okular does (KDE document viewer, not only PDF)
> >
> > As does Gnome's Evince / Document Viewer. I don't know if it works with
> > all PDF forms, but I just tested it with this one, and it seems to work
> > fine:
> >
> > http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> I'm sorry that I forgot the important part: the calculation via JavaScript.
>
> There exists PDF Forms, which can calculate, and I'm sure that evince
> Version 3.30.2-3+deb10u1, which is shipped with Debian Buster, is not
> able.
>
> I'm not sure about Okular, but will find out later. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Klaus.
> --
> Klaus Singvogel
> GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D  1994-06-27
>
>

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Klaus Singvogel]

Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:07:34 +0200
> Erwan David  wrote:
> 
> > Le 25/06/2020 à 09:41, Klaus Singvogel a écrit :
> > > 
> > > Btw, if you know a Form capable PDF viewer, which is FOSS, let me know.
> > > 
> > 
> > Okular does (KDE document viewer, not only PDF)
> 
> As does Gnome's Evince / Document Viewer. I don't know if it works with
> all PDF forms, but I just tested it with this one, and it seems to work
> fine:
> 
> http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf

Thanks for the input.

I'm sorry that I forgot the important part: the calculation via JavaScript.

There exists PDF Forms, which can calculate, and I'm sure that evince
Version 3.30.2-3+deb10u1, which is shipped with Debian Buster, is not
able.

I'm not sure about Okular, but will find out later. :-)

Best regards,
Klaus.
-- 
Klaus Singvogel
GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D  1994-06-27

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Celejar]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:07:34 +0200
Erwan David  wrote:

> Le 25/06/2020 à 09:41, Klaus Singvogel a écrit :
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Don't want to start a flamewar here. But there a many Free and Open Source
> > Software PDF viewers, which can be recommended for different uses.
> > 
> > All of the OpenSource PDF viewers have their dis-/advantanges and none is
> > the best. If you have to fillout Forms, I've never seen an OpenSource PDF
> > viewer yet, which is apable. Same for the annotations capability, many of
> > the free ones lack of the feature.
> > 
> > Btw, if you know a Form capable PDF viewer, which is FOSS, let me know.
> > 
> 
> Okular does (KDE document viewer, not only PDF)

As does Gnome's Evince / Document Viewer. I don't know if it works with
all PDF forms, but I just tested it with this one, and it seems to work
fine:

http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf

Celejar

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Erwan David]

Le 25/06/2020 à 09:41, Klaus Singvogel a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> Don't want to start a flamewar here. But there a many Free and Open Source
> Software PDF viewers, which can be recommended for different uses.
> 
> All of the OpenSource PDF viewers have their dis-/advantanges and none is
> the best. If you have to fillout Forms, I've never seen an OpenSource PDF
> viewer yet, which is apable. Same for the annotations capability, many of
> the free ones lack of the feature.
> 
> Btw, if you know a Form capable PDF viewer, which is FOSS, let me know.
> 

Okular does (KDE document viewer, not only PDF)

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Klaus Singvogel]

Hi.

Don't want to start a flamewar here. But there a many Free and Open Source
Software PDF viewers, which can be recommended for different uses.

All of the OpenSource PDF viewers have their dis-/advantanges and none is
the best. If you have to fillout Forms, I've never seen an OpenSource PDF
viewer yet, which is apable. Same for the annotations capability, many of
the free ones lack of the feature.

Btw, if you know a Form capable PDF viewer, which is FOSS, let me know.

On the other side, there are people who never ever used a PDF viewer for
such a case and won't miss it.

So, I think it's a matter of your personal use, which PDF viewer can be
recommended under Debian/Linux and which not.

Even the commercial ones, like FoxIt, PDFStudio, or MasterPdfEditor, come
to your consideration, if you are going beyond "reading".

Best regards,
Klaus.
-- 
Klaus Singvogel
GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D  1994-06-27

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[riveravaldez]

On 6/25/20, Long Wind  wrote:
>  Thank Ben, i've just installed qpdfview.

Just in case it's useful: for something really fast and light you can
try 'zathura'.

Best regards!

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Long Wind]

 Thank Ben, i've just installed qpdfview.

On Thursday, June 25, 2020, 1:22:21 AM EDT, Ben Caradoc-Davies 
 wrote:  
 
 On 25/06/2020 17:01, Long Wind wrote:
>  oh, i see, it's not free, so it isn't included in debian mainthen i will try 
>evince

qpdfview is also nice. Qt application so takes a little fiddling to get 
consistent theming if you are using Gnome or other GTK-based desktop.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

  

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 25/06/2020 17:01, Long Wind wrote:

  oh, i see, it's not free, so it isn't included in debian mainthen i will try 
evince


qpdfview is also nice. Qt application so takes a little fiddling to get 
consistent theming if you are using Gnome or other GTK-based desktop.


Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Anders Andersson]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:45 AM Long Wind  wrote:
>
> some say it's among best pdf reader for linux
> how to install it in buster or stretch?

Not sure why you expect it to be included, it looks like commercial
software. Is the source even available on their website?

why foxit hasn't been included in buster?

[Long Wind]

some say it's among best pdf reader for linuxhow to install it in buster or 
stretch?