Re: Alternative to Adobe Reader, anyone?

[brian <brian@meadows.pair.com>]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 12:47:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Sunday 30 October 2016 12:14:51 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.
>
>I have used evince for that for quite some time.
>
>
>Cheers, Gene Heskett

Thanks everyone. I hadn't previously heard of evince, but I can
confirm that it does do what's needed, and will print single copies. 

(Note to Brad Rogers - no idea why I see the problem and you don't,
but it's 100% reproducible here.)


Brian.