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On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one |
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> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print |
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> current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document |
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> (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet). |
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> Acroread is only available as a 32-bit binary and it required that |
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> _89_ packages be built with a 32-bit ABI use flag. [There are various |
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> other reasons to dislike acroread, but that's the one the really |
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> bugged me...] |
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> When I noticed that the latest versions of Qoppa's PDFStudio has added |
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> the "print current view" feature, I happily coughed up the $36 to |
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> upgrade. |
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> |
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> Emerge is now busy rebuilding those 89 packages without the 32-bit ABI |
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> use flags. |
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I haven't used acroread or Qoppa's PDFStudio, but qpdfview and okular will |
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copy and save selections as images, which you can save and print thereafter. |
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If you prefer to work on a terminal mutool will also extract images. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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