Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:41:36 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handling pdfs? Message-ID: <20071202194136.75180d66@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4752F4CA.5050805@chuckr.org> References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org> <4752F4CA.5050805@chuckr.org>
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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:09:14 -0500 Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time. > > > > I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but the > fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to choose, always > seems to run characters together, so it gets hard to read them. So, > xpdf wouldn't be my first choice. I use kpdf to view pdfs for that > particular reason, and onthe same document, kpdf does a distinctly > better job, If kpdf uses xpdf's engine, then it must find some way to > pick better fonts for itself, it actually does look better. I personally find that xpdf looks OK. I avoid things like kpdf because I don't use KDE and don't really need all the bloat associated with it. But that's just me. -- Gary Jennejohn ********************************************************************* DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: office@denx.de *********************************************************************
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