Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally find that xpdf looks OK. Same here, though I do remember to have that cramped characters problem before. I think it was in PDFs created by OpenOffice swriter. When I used the "other" OS to print these PDFs, there were cramped characters THe other OS?

Re: procstat(1) committed to CVS HEAD

2007-12-02 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:38:45PM +, Robert Watson wrote: > > Dear all, (and FYI to hackers@ where I previousl sought feedback): > > I've now committed procstat(1) to CVS. I've found it to be quite a helpful > debugging tool, am particularly pleased with -k/-kk, and would welcome > feedback

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread soralx
> > I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but > > the fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to choose, > > always seems to run characters together, so it gets hard to read > > them. So, xpdf wouldn't be my first choice. I use kpdf to view > > pdfs for that pa

Re: MFC TO 6.X (6.3?) to fix aio_return() ?

2007-12-02 Thread David Xu
Julian Elischer wrote: This diff is a partial MFC (picking parts out of -current) that makes aio_return() return the error return of a completed AIO request. (as it does on othe OS's and in 7.x). The man page for 6.x and other OS's indicate that aio_return shoud return all the same results

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Have a look at the search order of libs in linux. Correlate this with the fact that when in linux an access is done to e.g. /lib/libX.so.y which means that the linuxulator first looks if /compat/linux/lib/libX.so.y is there,

procstat(1) committed to CVS HEAD

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all, (and FYI to hackers@ where I previousl sought feedback): I've now committed procstat(1) to CVS. I've found it to be quite a helpful debugging tool, am particularly pleased with -k/-kk, and would welcome feedback and ideas on further improving it. Robert N M Watson Computer Laborat

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Chuck Robey wrote: > Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also > >>> have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at > >>> home-reading

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:09:14 -0500 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time. > > > > I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but the > fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Yuri wrote: I am trying to run Linux version of Skype and am getting the following error: /usr/home/yuri/skype/current/skype: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librt.so.1: ELF file OS ABI File /usr/lib/librt.so.1 is FreeBSD library and /usr/compat/linux/lib/librt.so.1 is Linux lib

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: On Tue, 27.11.2007 at 21:27:41 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Is there some sort of util that will allow me to do cut'n'pasting among different pdfs, or at the very least, only to print certain ranges out of pdf docs, so I could do paper-wise cut'n'paste? An all-electronic s

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Julian H. Stacey wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at home-reading documents in paper. What I'd kind of like

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:18 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In response to Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also have a rather

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Atom Smasher wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: /usr/ports/print/pdftk/ that's a good first choice, but if it doesn't work (amd64) then a second choice is print/pdfjam and/or print/psutils-(letter|a4)... and ghostscript for pdf2ps and/or ps2pdf... but yeah, pdft

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:07:55 +0100): > Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:01:46 + > (GMT)): > > > > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > > Have a look at the search order of libs in linux. Correlat

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:01:46 + (GMT)): > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Have a look at the search order of libs in linux. Correlate this with the > > fact that when in linux an access is done to e.g. /lib/libX.so.y which > > m