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Re: Print with mupdf?



On Thursday 20 September 2018 09:31:57 Curt wrote:

> On 2018-09-20, Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:
> >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for
> >> > > > viewing PDFs but of limited use to me if it can't print.
> >> > >
> >> > > Using a mupdf option? No.
> >> >
> >> > Have you seen:
> >> > gv, epdfview, qpdfview, xpdf
> >>
> >> evince, atril
> >
I'm with you on the native format. Evince is purty, but doesn't print 
some stuff correctly if you want it in dead tree format. Never heard of 
mupdf, so can't comment, whats so special about it?

okular does it all, very well.

> > You could consider PDF-XChange Viewer. It is a Windows program, but
> > works perfectly with Wine.
>
> Excuse me but why in hell would he do that?  I mean that's quite some
> overhead just to print a lousy pdf, and as you offer no clue
> concerning the outstanding benefits that might accrue from running a
> Windows pdf viewer in Wine rather than some cozy, native program
> (unless I inadvertently cut out some of your reasoning below, in which
> case I will be shot at dawn, not to worry) I'm curious as all get out.
>
> Me personally I'm recommending 'Alf's PDF Viewer Like Vim' (aka
> apvlv), though I've never used it (but just might one of these days,
> you betcha) because I like the name (and it seems to be lightweight
> like, um, mupdf). And it prints!
>
>    :pr[int]
>
>                 Print the current document



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