[PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative. Which programs do you all use for reading and printing pdf files? -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG: https://pd

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:04 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. > There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative. Which > programs do you all use for reading and printing pdf files? > > > evince _

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Dick Steffens wrote: In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative. Which programs do you all use for reading and printing pdf files? Dick, My two long-time favorites: xpdf and mupdf

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:04:47 -0700 Dick Steffens dijo: >In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. >There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative. >Which programs do you all use for reading and printing pdf files? I use Evince (also known as 'Docume

[PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

I've not before had a problem downloading huge files. But, trying to download http://ph-public-data.com/document/PHRD_2019/Pre-RD_PDI_Appx-A-Chemistry-Data-DVR.zip which the site says is 1,168,591Kb large fails. The 102k PDF error page displayed (from django) can be downloaded here:

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

Do you have 1.2Tb of space free on your drive and can your file system handle single files of that size? Jason - Sent from my pocket computing telecommunications device. All typos and poor communications will be blamed on the autocarrot function of said device. On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 11:11 AM Ri

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

On 2021-04-19 10:04, Dick Steffens wrote: In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative. Which programs do you all use for reading and printing pdf files? Evince, or so it seems. It is the default in Pop

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

My Kubuntu 20.10 defaults to Okular. Works fine for me though I don't do anything special with PDFs. On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:04 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. > There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative.

[PLUG] Resolved: Alternatives for Atril?

Ali Corbin recommended evince. Rich Shepard recommended xpdf and mupdf. John Jason Jordan recommended evince, which shows up as document viewer. Michael Rasmussen recommended evince. Tried to try them all. Evince looks nice, but if there's a way to print from it, it's not obvious. mupdf also lo

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Jason Barnett wrote: Do you have 1.2Tb of space free on your drive and can your file system handle single files of that size? Jason, Perhaps and yes. The 1.4T partition has used 145G and there's 1.2T available; the filesystem is ext4. Rich __

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Jason Barnett wrote: Do you have 1.2Tb of space free on your drive and can your file system handle single files of that size? Jason, Thinking about your questiona and my answer, I'll make a larger disk available and download that file to it. Thanks, Rich __

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:11 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > > I've not before had a problem downloading huge files. But, trying to > download > http://ph-public-data.com/document/PHRD_2019/Pre-RD_PDI_Appx-A-Chemistry-Data-DVR.zip > which the site says is 1,168,591Kb large fails. Looks like 125 Megabyt

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Alternatives for Atril?

On evince, if 3-bar menu clicked, a print icon is shown left on that new menu and evince can be used to input text to fill-able pdf forms On 4/19/21, Dick Steffens wrote: > Ali Corbin recommended evince. > Rich Shepard recommended xpdf and mupdf. > John Jason Jordan recommended evince, which show

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Alternatives for Atril?

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:41 AM Dick Steffens wrote: ... > Evince looks nice, but if there's a way to print from it, it's not obvious. > File->Print, or Ctrl-P, or the little printer icon on the menu bar ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

Bill, Yes it does look like that if you count correctly. If you count like me, it looked like 1.2Tb... Doh! On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:03 PM Bill Barry wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:11 PM Rich Shepard > wrote: > > > > I've not before had a problem downloading huge files. But, trying to > >

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Alternatives for Atril?

On 4/19/21 12:05 PM, carl day wrote: On evince, if 3-bar menu clicked, a print icon is shown left on that new menu and evince can be used to input text to fill-able pdf forms On 4/19/21 12:07 PM, Ali Corbin wrote: File->Print, or Ctrl-P, or the little printer icon on the menu bar I don't ha

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Bill Barry wrote: Looks like 125 Megabytes to me if that is Kilobits. If it is actually Kilobytes then it is just over a Gigabyte Bill, I agree. It's not terabytes and I'm now dowloading a 1.3G file. Don't know why the first one kept failing to transfer. Regards, Rich _

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 14:11 Rich Shepard wrote: > I've not before had a problem downloading huge files. But, trying to > download > http://ph-public-data.com/document/PHRD_2019/Pre-RD_PDI_Appx-A-Chemistry-Data-DVR.zip > which the site says is 1,168,591Kb large fails. > > The 102k PDF error page d

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:04:47 -0700 Dick Steffens wrote: > In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf > files. There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an > alternative. Which programs do you all use for reading and printing > pdf files? > MuPDF -- __

Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Use: wget -Nc http. If it fails, you run it again - it will continue from where it stopped. Tomas, I was not accurate in my description. Using -Nc makes no difference, what's downloaded is a 4096 byte file name; same size as a directory listing. I'

Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 BETA release

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Re: [PLUG] Memory error downloading file from website [RESOLVED]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I'll look for more detailed help on learning wget. Aha! Found it. For the dozens of .pdf files in one subdirectory I used: wget -r -A.pdf http://ph-public-data.com/document/PDI2021B/ and it's chugging away downloading those files. I'll try it on the