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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:41:18
Message-Id: 20130125134349.GA30871@syscon7.inet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer by Bruce Hill
1 On 01/25/13 06:41, Bruce Hill wrote:
2 >On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:00:18PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> >
4 >> > there is also pdf2pdf - I cant find which package its in, but its
5 >> > saved
6 >> > a few files for me (cleans/scrubs the pdf code as part of a pipeline)
7 >>
8 >> Thanks for the hint. To find a package
9 >>
10 >> http://www.portagefilelist.de/ is your friend.
11 >>
12 >> It shows that pdf2pdf is part of media-gfx/swftools-0.9.1 which is not
13 >> in the tree anymore. Furthermore it needs media-libs/pdflib which have
14 >> been abandoned, as well. But there is a newer version of
15 >> PDFlib Lite (7.0.5p3). Adapting the old ebuild for 7.0.4_p5 does work.
16 >> Then media-gfx/swftools-0.9.1 does build and it generates pdf2pdf.
17 >
18 >e-file is much more efficient, then use eshowkw:
19 >
20 >mingdao@server ~ $ e-file pdf2pdf
21 > * media-gfx/swftools
22 > Available Versions: 0.9.1
23 > Homepage: http://www.swftools.org/
24 > Description: SWF Tools is a collection of SWF manipulation and generation utilities
25 > Matched Files: /usr/bin/pdf2pdf;
26 >
27 >mingdao@server ~ $ eshowkw media-gfx/swftools
28 >Keywords for media-gfx/swftools:
29 > | | u |
30 > | a a p s | n |
31 > | l m h i m m p s p | u s | r
32 > | p d a p a 6 i p c 3 a x | s l | e
33 > | h 6 r p 6 8 p p 6 9 s r 8 | e o | p
34 > | a 4 m a 4 k s c 4 0 h c 6 | d t | o
35 >------+---------------------------+-----+-------
36 >0.9.2 | o ~ o ~ o o o ~ o o o ~ ~ | o 0 | gentoo
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44
45 I just emerge swftools-0.9.2
46 It did not generate "pdf2pdf" binary
47
48 --
49 Joseph

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Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>