xpdf for 20.10?

[Bret Busby]

On 7/7/21 4:23 am, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Wed, 7 Jul 2021 04:10:08 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 7/7/21 4:01 am, Chris Green wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:48:17PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>>>> At Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:00:25 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not
>>>> for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> hi,
>>>>> Am Dienstag, den 06.07.2021, 13:48 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How does one view a PDF file in 20.10?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> try evince (this is the pre-installed document viewer typically)...
>>>>
>>>> evince has a horrible UI...  I seriously hate it when programs decide that
>>>> they are NOT going to let me use *MY* window manager.  It is obnoxious and
>>>> patronizing.  Why do people write programs that way?  There is NEVER a good
>>>> reason to do that.
>>>>
>>> There's also atril which I think is the default xubuntu PDF viewer
>>> now, instead of evince.
>>>
>>
>> I believe that atril is a MATE application - it is installed by default
>> in UbuntuMATE.
> 
> Yeah, it *looks* like evince, except it does not try to be its own window
> manager.  It also works about as poorly.  I am dealing with a giant, very high
> res PDF and xpdf actually allows me to zoom way in with zoom factors going up
> to 1600%, as compared to the max of 125% with evince and atril.
> 
>>
>> See https://mate-desktop.org/ -> applications (you need to scroll down
>> the homepage).
>>
> 

The version of atril that I have installed and am running, is 1.24.1, 
running on UbuntuMATE 21.04.

It has a maximum zoom level of 400%, which is nowhere near what you want.

What you are doing and seeking, is way out of my league.

Out of interest, the MATE desktop web site states that atril is a fork 
of evince.

I wonder whether the GIMP would open and view your PDF files, and, if 
so, would zoom sufficiently?

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Bret Busby
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