Firefox: disable the built-in PDF viewer
Posted: 2014-09-25 Filed under: network, office, slackbuilds | Tags: acroread, adobe acrobat, firefox, pdf, viewer, xpdf Leave a commentWhen the built-in PDF viewer arrived for Firefox, I was quite excited. However, I have to admit that it does not always work well. Sometimes fonts look weird and pictures distorted. Read the rest of this entry »
Converting html
Posted: 2014-09-19 Filed under: misc, office | Tags: convert, html, pdf, png Leave a commentI need to convert a simple webpage to PDF and picture format. Usually, I would just take a screenshot, however it is too big. I searched and I found a nice little tool, called wkhtmltopdf. Read the rest of this entry »
Tumbler: disabling ODF and PDF
Posted: 2012-10-30 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: odf, pdf, tumbler 2 CommentsSince XFCE 4.10, Thunar does not display thumbnails for some PDF files. There was a short discussion on LQ started by me, but I did not find a solution. Anyway, it annoys me, so I would prefer to have no thumbnails for PDF files rather than that. Also, I do not like to have thumbnails for ODF files. So, what to do? Read the rest of this entry »
64bit Seamonkey and 32bit Adobe Reader
Posted: 2012-08-11 Filed under: desktop | Tags: pdf, seamonkey 1 CommentI needed to fill a form that required Adobe Reader. So, I made my Slackware64 13.37 system multilib, following AlienBob’s instructions. Then, I installed xulrunner and adobe-reader from SBo and did the necessary to make adobe-reader use my GTK+ theme. Read the rest of this entry »
Firefox PDF Viewer plugin
Posted: 2012-07-05 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: firefox, pdf, plugin 1 CommentIn Slackware64, even if the system is converted to multilib and Adobe Reader runs fine, there will still be problems for it to integrate into Firefox. A 64bit Firefox and 32bit Acrobat apparently do not work nicely together… Read the rest of this entry »
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