On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:57 AM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue 19 Nov 2019 at 10:11:53 (-0800), Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:43 AM Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > > On 2019-11-19, Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > So probably at this point i need to use a different pdf reader. > > > > > > I don't see why, but we've come full circle. Offhand, I can think of > > > mupdf (no printing) and xpdf. > > > > xpdf and mupdf both work without emitting extraneous warnings, > > Do you have some sort of agenda (your PDF viewer occasionally says > something that interests you) or would it suffice to add 2>/dev/null > to the command line. > > > although > > afaict they don't have easy ways for random access to pages. > > Eh? There's a little box at the foot of the xpdf window which contains > the page number. You can focus it with the mouse and edit it, but > it's easier to press g. which focuses and selects it, so that you only > have to type the page number you want. It also maintains a stack of > pages that you've visited which you can run back and forth along with > the ⇠ and ⇢ keys. > > > (There are > > also a couple of screen-saver type pdf viewers, pdf-presenter-console > being > > one with some controls, and pdfcube as well, with i think fewer > controls.) > > Yes, xpdf has a presentation mode which loses the control buttons, but > you can set all manner of key bindings yourself, including toggling in > and out of that mode if you feel it's necessary. > > > We'll see what we can do. > > Cheers, > David. > > Thanks David, and thanks Celejar again (regarding mupdf): indeed xpdf does have controls and they work, and mupdf does have a hot keyboard (type a number and go to the page). So i have at least two possible solutions to my pdf problems. Thanks everybody for your help. dan
