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On Wednesday 23 Jul 2014 15:48:08 James wrote: |
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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 |
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> important to old eyes, imho. |
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Ctrl+scroll works here with Firefox for zooming in or out. |
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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 have set FF to ask whether to open or save. I can open with qpdfviewer |
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which is my default pdf viewer application. No problems printing pdf |
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documents with it. |
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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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Isn't this a matter of setting it up your browser (any browser) to ask you |
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what to do with pdf content? Check under Preferences/Applications/pdf. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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