Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince
Brian wrote, On 03/14/2014 03:03 PM:
> On Fri 14 Mar 2014 at 14:21:47 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
>
>> Brian wrote, On 03/14/2014 02:13 PM:
>>
>>> I'm probably being a bit dense but what do you mean by 'embedded
>>> Iceweasel pdf viewer'?
>>
>> When you open a PDF in Iceweasel, either by clicking a link or opening a
>> file, it renders the PDF right inside the browser instead of bringing it
>> up in Document Viewer.
>
> I think I must be using the Document Viewer method: my PDFs display with
> either xpdf or mupdf in its own window. What program performs the
> rendering and display of PDFs with the embedded technique?
Good question. I went into my Iceweasel Preferences, under
Applications, and next to the entry for "Portable Document Format (PDF)"
I see this option chosen:
[Preview in Iceweasel]
If I change that to this setting:
[Use Document Viewer (default)]
It then brings up PDFs in a separate Document Viewer window.
By the way, I never explicitly changed this to Preview. Before Debian I
was using Firefox on Ubuntu, and suddenly one day it started doing the
embedded preview. Since then I've copied my .firefox profile over to
.iceweasel, and the setting remained.
Another weird thing I just noticed yesterday. Whenever I view PDFs,
they appear to have little black rectangles scattered around, typically
to the left of text blocks. It looks as if the PDF has been redacted --
but of course it's really just a bug in PDF rendering. It occasionally
overlaps text to the point of making it unreadable, but for the most
part I can get by.
-- Patrick
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