13 Sep
2015
13 Sep
'15
11:41 p.m.
On Sunday 13 September 2015 11:11:35 am Gene Heskett wrote:
But, while the subject line is still somewhat on
topic, I am about to
nuke kpdf if the package manager will let me.
Neither okular & evince (usually called "Document viewer" in the
menu's,
like its supposed to be a big secret or something) do not have such a
problem. okular, started from a cli, spits out several little red wagon
loads of squawks, but works anyway, better than evince IMO.
Can a squawk be filed against kpdf?
Sure,
KPDF is showing its age, as are some of the other old KDE apps.
I use evince here, okular has more features, and they work well for someone
who uses them daily..or has a better memory. I prefer apps do do a few less
tasks and do them well.
Some tool in my pdf 'toolbox' is pdftk, pdfshuffler, gs with the
'pdrwrite'
option, mupdf, xournal, master-pdf-editor: great tools but free beer or pay
only.
I have been working with fillable pdf forms, only because the other person
doing it uses an Adobe product theat uses XFA 'enhancements', which no Free
software pdf viewer supports, it is not a published standard or spec.
Evince and Okular can do X/FDF fillable forms, For Okular I have to google to
find the feature to enable it, Evince just works, KPDF does not do fillable
forms.
Greg M