[Slackbuilds-users] ePDFViewer SBo

Nick Warne nick at linicks.net
Sun Apr 13 13:39:24 UTC 2014


Sorry, this was 'off-list'.

On 13/04/14 14:35, Nick Warne wrote:
> On 13/04/14 13:27, Andrew Brouwers wrote:
>> Hey Nick,
>>
>> Unforutnatley, epdfview hasn't worked for me in awhile.  And the upstream
>> project has been dead for several years.  Since then, I've switched to
>> using "zathura" for PDF files - might be worth taking a look!
>
> OK, thanks Andrew.  I just installed zathura and it does what I need -
> thanks.
>
> Maybe ePDFViewer should be removed from the repository now that it
> doesn't work properly any more, and with no upstream maintenance?
>
> Nick
>
>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Nick Warne <nick at linicks.net> wrote:
>>
>>> For some time now, ePDFViewer doesn't display images any more for me, and
>>> as I like the lightweightness (such a word?) of this application, I looked
>>> into it today.
>>>
>>> For an example, the manual for Qxw (my Slackbuild) shows this behaviour:
>>>
>>> http://www.quinapalus.com/qxw-guide-20140131.pdf
>>>
>>> Load this up - do you see the screenshots?  I have found if you rotate the
>>> page right/left they then appear - but vieing the document the right-way-up
>>> or upside-down the images are just grey squares.
>>>
>>> I rebuilt ePDFViewer, and still no go.  Anybody else see this behaviour?
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> --
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>>>
>>
>

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