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Re: Alternative to Adobe Reader, anyone?



On Sunday 30 October 2016 16:14:51 brian wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a program which will print PDF
> files **scaling them to fit the page**. This last part is essential! A
> program which just did expansion to fit would be a good second best.
>
> What *doesn't* work :-
>
> Acrobat Reader:  It does the 'fit to page' but the version I have
> (9.5.5) will not print a *single* copy of a file. If you ask it to
> print one copy, you get a popup with an lpr error message that you
> asked for zero copies. Ask for two copies, you get two copies...
>
> Okular:  Prints single copies OK but doesn't have the 'fit to page'
> feature.
>
> I'm running  64-bit testing and XFCE, should anyone feel that's
> relevant.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.

Can you (or someone) let me have a non-A4 pdf file to test.  All my files seem 
to be A4 in the first place, so I can't test whether they would adjust to 
fit!!  Evince used to do so, but it has lost a lot of what I used to use - or 
I cannot access it.

Lisi


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