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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:54:36
Message-Id: nujbhk$rs$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread by Mick
1 On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >
4 >> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
5 >> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
6 >> current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
7 >> (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).
8
9 [...]
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11 > I haven't used acroread or Qoppa's PDFStudio, but qpdfview and okular will
12 > copy and save selections as images, which you can save and print thereafter.
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14 Does it save them in a vector format so that they scale and print
15 properly, or does it rasterize them?
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17 > If you prefer to work on a terminal mutool will also extract images.
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19 I don't ever need to extract/print images.
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21 --
22 Grant

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