On 16/2/25 05:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2025 5:08 PM, I wrote:
I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the
Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them ...
In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine for
display purposes. But with my new printer (Brother DCP-L2640DW), printing
from Acrobat fails. The request gets to the printer, but localhost:631 shows
"Can't detect file type". So I've been happy printing from qpdfview, until
now. Now the dollar amounts I entered on the forms look OK in qpdfview's
display but print in a very thin font. Any ideas how to fix this?
Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of
the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince
(Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager.
I should have mentioned that I'm running Bookworm. Thanks for the many
helpful suggestions. I've tried them all, with the following results:
On Friday, February 14, 2025 5:49 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Evince works for me under FVWM (though I rarely use it).
and on Friday, February 14, 2025 6:41 PM, Bret Busby added:
I use primarily Evince, runnimg on the MATE desktop environement, and,
it seems to work okay.
I suggest that you give it a try.
I have found that an application for one Desktop environment, will
generally work without problems, on another desktop environment, so, KDE
applications will work equally well on MATE, as will gnome and xfce
applications.
I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two error
messages:
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
Are you running (or, trying to run) Evince from the command line,
rather than from the GUI?
I believe (and, it is the way that I run any application on a file) that
the way to run Evince on a file, is, from within the GUI file manager,
right click on the file name, to get the "Open with" in a menu, thence,
to select Evince to open the file.
If you are trying top access the file through some other method, I have
no idea of what you are trying to do, or, why.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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