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Howdy, |
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I have acroread 9.5.5 installed. It is set as the default pdf |
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reader for both seamoney and firefox. I mostly use seamonkey, because |
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it allows for page/font sizing on the fly, via the mouse wheel (middle |
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button on my logitech mouse). I'd use firefox more, if I could figure |
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out dynamic font size adjustments, via the mouse wheel under firebox. |
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Maybe an addon does this? Scrolling fonts sizes is quinessentially important |
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to old eyes, imho. |
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On seamonkey, when I follow a web link to a pdf, I just get a black page on |
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my browser. Under firefox, I get the pdf to open up to be read, |
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but can only print postscript files, unless I go to the |
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adobe web site; which is not an option for me. |
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I'm looking for a long term solution that easily allows both |
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viewing and download of the pdf file; that's how acroread use |
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to work. Googling yeilds a myriad of choices and viewpoints, but |
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I've not found any solutions I'm happy with. |
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I'm running simple LXDE (soon to be lxqt5 now, so I do not want a hugely |
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bloated collection of applications, just a simple viewer/download capability |
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of pdf files. |
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I also run "noscript" on my browsers now (very cool!). I do not consider it |
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a problem, when I have to click a button or 2 to allow something |
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that noscript has identified and filtered as a possilbe point |
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of caution. I like noscript and have little desire to permanently |
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disable it, so suggestions must work reasonable well with noscript too. |
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I've tried MuPDF, but it is a bit spartan and does not (at least |
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from what I've experienced) allow for simple downloading of the pdf. |
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Guidance, discussion and suggestions are most welcome! |
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Maybe another browser will make me happy? |
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James |
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