From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 2 18:41:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2104F16A47B for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout2.freenet.de (mout2.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829E113C50D for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.17] (helo=7.mx.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Iytl4-0002au-VL; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:41:39 +0100 Received: from r95d1.r.pppool.de ([89.54.149.209]:60259 helo=peedub.jennejohn.org) by 7.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.68 #1) id 1Iytl4-0007xd-MA; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:41:38 +0100 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:41:36 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Chuck Robey 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> Organization: DENX Softwre Engineering GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handling pdfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:41:43 -0000 On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:09:14 -0500 Chuck Robey 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 *********************************************************************