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Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony!

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony!
Date 2018-11-06 18:45 +0000
Organization O.W.L.
Message-ID <9z0b8083a.hu4@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
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DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 11/5/2018 8:32 PM, SilverSlimer wrote:
>> On 2018-11-05 8:18 p.m., DFS wrote:
>>> On 11/5/2018 7:24 PM, SilverSlimer wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I can vouch for one of the programs listed by DFS, MediaMonkey, 
>>>> as being the best music management program ever made. FoxIt is 
>>>> good too but I prefer SumatraPDF reader myself since it's much 
>>>> lighter. Paint.NET is also alright but GIMP is better but 
>>>> Notepad++ is the best in its category.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I just tried SumatraPDF and it's just about perfect for my .pdf 
>>> reading.   Thanks for mentioning it.
>>> 
>>> I like having the .pdf in a browser tab, but the Opera .pdf
>>> plug-in is too bare-bones. Here's a free tool that will stitch
>>> together multiple .pdfs into one: 
>>> https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
>> 
>> Whenever I can, I try to disable the PDF reader in a browser since I 
>> would prefer that external programs take care of the task.
>> 
>> As you mentioned, you always risk the built-in ones being too simple 
>> and therefore not working as they should. Heck, the Brave PDF viewer 
>> didn't load a PDF of my pay stub properly whereas SumatraPDF had no 
>> issue with it.
> 
> Also, Sumatra loads in one second a large .pdf that takes five seconds
> to load in Opera.
> 
> 
> 
>> As for putting PDFs together, I barely use the format so I don't 
>> really need one but it's no surprise to me that Windows has great 
>> free utilities for the task.
> 
> Occasionally on univ course websites I come across lecture notes 
> (usually one lecture per .pdf).  Instead of having 18 .pdfs in a 
> directory, I combine them into one file.
> 
> 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra_PDF#Development
<quote>
History[edit]
The first version of Sumatra PDF, designated version 0.1, was based on
Xpdf 0.2 and was released on 1 June 2006. It switched to Poppler from
version 0.2. In version 0.4, it changed to MuPDF for more speed[3] and
better support for the Windows platform. Poppler remained as alternative
engine for a time, and from version 0.6 to 0.8 it was automatically
used to render pages that MuPDF failed to load. Poppler was removed in
version 0.9, released on 10 August 2008.

In July 2009, Sumatra PDF changed its license from GNU GPLv2 to GNU
GPLv3 to match the same license change on MuPDF.[25]
...
</quote>


anon@lowtide:~$ apropos pdf |wc -l
163
anon@lowtide:~$ apropos pdf |grep ^pdf |wc -l
41
anon@lowtide:~$ which xpdf
/usr/bin/xpdf
anon@lowtide:~$ which mupdf
/usr/bin/mupdf
anon@lowtide:~$ dpkg -L poppler-utils |grep /usr/bin/ |wc -l
11
anon@lowtide:~$

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Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-11-05 09:09 -0800
  Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:21 -0500
    Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 09:24 -0800
      Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:31 -0500
    Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-11-05 17:31 +0000
      Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:51 -0500
        Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 10:00 -0800
          Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 13:09 -0500
            Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 10:17 -0800
              Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 11:32 -0800
          Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-05 11:37 -0700
        Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-11-05 10:15 -0800
          Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 10:29 -0800
          Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 15:22 -0500
            Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-11-05 12:48 -0800
              Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 22:10 +0000
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 19:16 -0500
              Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 19:24 -0500
              Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 19:24 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 20:18 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 20:32 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-06 02:22 +0000
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 18:51 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-06 11:58 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-06 17:44 +0000
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! proletariat <myemailisaol@defunct.org> - 2018-11-06 08:21 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 08:46 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! proletariat <myemailisaol@defunct.org> - 2018-11-06 09:57 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 12:31 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-06 10:02 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 08:48 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-06 11:59 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 13:37 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-06 14:52 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 17:55 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-06 15:31 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 01:40 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-06 18:45 +0000
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 14:14 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-11-07 10:06 +0000
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 02:43 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-07 11:45 +0000
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 04:00 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 04:16 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-07 10:11 -0500
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 07:38 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 17:49 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 20:58 -0800
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-11-07 10:22 +0000
                Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 08:57 -0500
            Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 13:06 -0800
            Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-11-05 23:28 +0000
              Re: Linux Dominates Azure. Oh the Irony! DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 18:50 -0500
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