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Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

From Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing
Date 2021-03-01 15:00 +0100
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* On 2021 01 Mar 06:55 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> > On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > A suggested tool?
> > I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince",
> > will solve your problems.
> > It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities
> > like index\bookmarks and text search.
> > For me reading documents in PDFs is much more convenient than in clunky
> > html pages.
> > 
> 
> That is on my system but the available "Help" says nothing about the options
> you mentioned.
> That may be because I'm using the MATE desktop. I've had "Help" weirdness on
> other programs IIRC.

Evince has a "zoom" capability that enlarges the document including
fonts and images.  I use it quite a bit to see detail in scanned
electronics schematics.

- Nate

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Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 11:50 +0100
  Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-03-01 13:30 +0100
    Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 14:00 +0100
      Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-03-01 15:00 +0100
  Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-01 14:00 +0100
    Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 15:00 +0100
  Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-03-01 14:10 +0100
    Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 14:20 +0100
      Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 16:20 +0100
  Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-01 17:40 +0100

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