Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-12 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:05:32 +0100 Margot disseminated the following: > This is gpdf-0.132-3 on xfce4 on 10.1CE - maybe > you have an older version and need to upgrade? Ya, I'm still back on 0.110. Maybe I'll see if I can build a newer version, prolly requires GTK 2.4 or something tho. -- JoeH

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-12 Thread Margot
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:47:38 +1000 John Layt disseminated the following: P.S. Oh, all right Gnome has something called gpdf which is also based on xpdf, but I can't speak for it as I won't have that the G stuff on my drive... LOL! Exactly the opposite here...no 'K' for me! gpdf d

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-12 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:47:38 +1000 John Layt disseminated the following: > P.S. Oh, all right Gnome has something called gpdf which is also based on > xpdf, but I can't speak for it as I won't have that the G stuff on my > drive... LOL! Exactly the opposite here...no 'K' for me! gpdf does the

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-12 Thread John Layt
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:58, JoeHill wrote: > Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what Adobe has > to offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. > > Ahem. > > Can anyone suggest a PDF viewer which is preferably GTK2 but allows one to > print, unlike gpdf (shouldn't this

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 12:05, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:58:49 -0400 > JoeHill disseminated the following: > > ...actually, never mind, I'll just use 'lpr' from the command line, it's a lot > faster and simpler. W.Y.O. (write yer own) You can get the dev libs for pdf functionality a

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-11 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 3:26 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:08:06 -0400 > > Miark disseminated the following: > > > Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what > > > Adobe has to > > > offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. > > > > It's not pretty, but it

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-11 Thread Miark
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:26:40 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > [Acroread] is *really* ugly. And it does not do as good a job at > rendering as gpdf: Have you tried messing with "Smoothing" in Acroread? If not, it does a decent job of tweaking the rendering: Edit > Preferences > General > Smoothing > The

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-11 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:08:06 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: > > Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what Adobe has > > to > > offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. > > It's not pretty, but it renders PDFs more pretty and it's a hell of > a lot more capa

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-11 Thread Miark
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:58:49 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what Adobe has to > offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. It's not pretty, but it renders PDFs more pretty and it's a hell of a lot more capable than any PDF viewer I've use

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-11 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:58:49 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: ...actually, never mind, I'll just use 'lpr' from the command line, it's a lot faster and simpler. -- JoeHill RLU / #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:04:13 up 68 days, 21:52, 8 users, load average: 0.26, 0.33, 0.49 +++

[newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-11 Thread JoeHill
Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what Adobe has to offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. Ahem. Can anyone suggest a PDF viewer which is preferably GTK2 but allows one to print, unlike gpdf (shouldn't this be a standard feature?!). -- JoeHill RLU / #282046