Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Greg' Ar Tourter
As the maintainer of the adobe reader package, the answer to the question of whether you need the 32bit compatibility libs to run adobe reader on 64bit slackware is yes, and I may add "unfortunately". Now to the rest of the conversation, I always come back to adobe reader for viewing documents but

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Ryan P.C. McQuen
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: > > If resources or privacy were a concern, the OP wouldn't have been coming >> from a proprietary Adobe product. >> > > My default PDF viewer has always been xpdf. As the Slackware version does >

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: If resources or privacy were a concern, the OP wouldn't have been coming from a proprietary Adobe product. My default PDF viewer has always been xpdf. As the Slackware version does not support the most recent Adobe PDF versions I use mupdf for tho

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Ryan P.C. McQuen
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017, Erik Falor > wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:30:39AM -0800, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: > > Ryan, > > Â But that's a browser and I prefer to use them only for web pages. > > > >If it works, who cares what its normal usage is? > > Because a fullscreen P

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Erik Falor
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:30:39AM -0800, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: > Ryan, > Â But that's a browser and I prefer to use them only for web pages. > >If it works, who cares what its normal usage is? Because a fullscreen PDF viewer doesn't use 100MB of RAM and won't phone home? Wait,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Ryan P.C. McQuen
On Feb 14, 2017 9:10 AM, "Rich Shepard" wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: Firefox also does this. ;^) > Ryan, But that's a browser and I prefer to use them only for web pages. If it works, who cares what its normal usage is? _

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: Firefox also does this. ;^) Ryan, But that's a browser and I prefer to use them only for web pages. Thanks, Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slac

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Ryan P.C. McQuen
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Do I need the 32-bit compatibility libraries to run acroread? What are >> other folks using? >> > > The short answer is, "no." There is an xpdf option, -fullscreen, that > does > exactly what acro

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Daniil Bratashov
No, just start it as presentation (in menu from mode button, near the size scale). WBR, Daniil Bratashov. On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Daniil Bratashov wrote: > > evince seems to work fine with beamer presentations. >> > > Daniil, > > This, too,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Ryan P.C. McQuen
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Daniil Bratashov wrote: > > evince seems to work fine with beamer presentations. >> > > Daniil, > > This, too, displays the window frame and sidebar in full-screen mode. > How about Firefox? -- --- -Ryan [ryanpcmcque

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines? [RESOLVED]

2017-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Do I need the 32-bit compatibility libraries to run acroread? What are other folks using? The short answer is, "no." There is an xpdf option, -fullscreen, that does exactly what acroread's ctrl-l does: presents the file contents across the full scree

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Daniil Bratashov wrote: evince seems to work fine with beamer presentations. Daniil, This, too, displays the window frame and sidebar in full-screen mode. Thanks, Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@sla

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Fellype do Nascimento wrote: Not a solution for your problems with acroread... But have you tried to use Okular? It works well, in full screen mode, with pdf files created using LaTeX/beamer. Fellype, I just tried it. Like xpdf and mupdf at full-screen mode the entire w

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Daniil Bratashov
evince seems to work fine with beamer presentations. WBR, Daniil Bratashov. On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Fellype do Nascimento wrote: > Not a solution for your problems with acroread... > But have you tried to use Okular? It works well, in full screen mode, with > pdf files created using La

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Fellype do Nascimento
Not a solution for your problems with acroread... But have you tried to use Okular? It works well, in full screen mode, with pdf files created using LaTeX/beamer. Fellype On 02/14/2017 02:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: My use of Adobe's acrobat reader is infrequent, but good for presentations

[Slackbuilds-users] acroread for 64-bit machines?

2017-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
My use of Adobe's acrobat reader is infrequent, but good for presentations showing beamer-class slides. There was no problem that I recall using it with 14.1, but I'm having issues trying to get a version that works with 14.2. I have a presentation tomorrow and neither xpdf nor mupdf will dis