happy solution.
From: Greg Wooledge
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2025 10:54 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)
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> On 17/02/2025 01:23, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> > On Sund
On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:27:19 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> > Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm.
> > I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log
> > i
On 2025-02-17, David Wright wrote:
>>
>> And on Saturday, February 15, 2025 6:31 PM, Charles Curley asked:
>>
>> > Are you running evince and X as the same user?
>>
>> Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm.
>> I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (v
On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied:
>
> > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a
> > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on
> > a different userid t
> On 17/02/2025 01:23, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 16, 2025 8:53 AM, I wrote:
> > > That should not *literally* be ~/.Xauthority of course.
> >
> > Yes, the output is literally
> >/u/steve/.Xauthority
A thought just occurred to me. Having your home directory outs
Steven, it seems you have managed to print your PDF file, so perhaps you
should stop debugging evince (unless you need it for some feature with
worse support in okular or browsers: form filling, printing, annotating,
etc.; or you need to run another application with deep mandatory desktop
integ
they were a problem, but they do have an effect here.
From: Greg Wooledge
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2025 11:18 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)
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On Sun, Feb 16,
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 13:53:21 +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> echo $DISPLAY -> :0
> xhost -> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
>
> > echo $XAUTHORITY
> >
> > The last usually points to ~/.Xauthority.
>
> echo $XAUTHORITY -> ~/.Xauthority
That should no
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From: Max Nikulin
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2025 9:39 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)
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On 16/02/2025 04:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> I installed Evince. C
On 16/02/2025 04:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
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:
Looks like missed DISPLAY environment varia
15, 2025 6:31 PM
To: Debian Users
Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:41:27 +
"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote:
> I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two
> error messages:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:41:27 +
"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote:
> 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:
Interesting. I run evi
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
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> On Friday, February 14, 2025 5:08 PM, I wrote:
>
> 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:
That's t
text I entered)
evince (window permission failure)
and these succeeded:
firefox
okular (albeit with error messages)
Thanks for all of your many helpful suggestions.
From: Greg
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2025 12:17 PM
To: debian-user@lists.de
On 2025-02-15, David Wright wrote:
>
> Without a DE, okular is quite a large install. On my bullseye, it
> would require 194 new packages, including switching fuse to fuse3,
> which might affect ntfs-3g and jmtpfs.
> OTOH, I have evince installed from when I set up the machine,
> and 48 extra pac
On Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 06:47:23 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote:
> Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> > 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 fvw
Which fonts are used by the pdf file?
You could try
pdffonts PDF_FILE
The command is contained in package poppler-utils.
Regards,
Jörg.
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> 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.
Unless you are extremely low on disk space, the
On 15/02/2025 05:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
I don't try Evince
(Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager.
Have you tried printing PDF files from Firefox or Chromium? There are
some other PDF viewers like zathura and atril, but I have never tried
their printing fe
"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" 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 to (yes) submit
> through snail mail.
>
> In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine
> for display purposes.
On 2/14/25 15:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) 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 to (yes) submit through
snail mail.
In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine for
display purpo
On 15/2/25 06:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) 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 to (yes) submit through
snail mail.
In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine for
display purpo
> 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.
FWIW, I think these should work regardless of your window manager
(e.g. I'm using
Evince works for me under FVWM (though I rarely use it).
--
John Hasler
j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the
Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit through
snail mail.
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),
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