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Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF
Date 2015-08-29 02:32 +0000
Organization ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand
Message-ID <afdmvnjd9a.a33@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
References <D2065366.59144%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>

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Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> Was just looking at your video again: <https://vid.me/zgCa>. Your Preview as
> PDF option is really a lot like QuickLook, though slower and limited, I
> would assume, to documents (as opposed to videos, zip files, etc.).

> OS X has QuickLook. I show this in my video just to show how the details of
> the files: <https://youtu.be/QkCcg0TeDp4>

> Curious if your system has anything like that.

Don't know.  I'm sure there is a lightweight viewer available for
most file types.  I doubt there is a universal lightweight viewer.

> Also curious of your take on Peter's claim that the PDF tools you show are
> pretty much just like OS X's PDF Services even though they literally handle
> NONE of the use-cases I talked about for PDF Services (viewing a web page
> and wanting to save it as a PDF into a receipts or recipes or other common
> folder, working with a word processing document and wanting to email it to
> someone as a PDF - with or without a user-set name, etc.).

The pdf tools on linux can do all of that.

> Not that these things cannot be done on Linux. They can. But your tools
> would not likely be a part of the workflow...

It's up to the developer.

> you would more likely save
> print them as PDF to the folder you wanted or to the desktop (or wherever)
> and use them as an attachment.

How it works is up to the developer.

> The ironic thing is on OS X your work would be more likely to be used in an
> alternate workflow - it is easier to get to the containing folder of a open
> document (as least as far as I know - open to being shown wrong). In that
> case someone might jump to the containing folder, convert it, then email it
> or whatever. 

The stuff I show in the most recent video could easily be integrated into
a GUI application's menu structure:
https://vid.me/H9m0

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Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-28 18:05 -0700
  Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 02:32 +0000
    Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-28 19:44 -0700
      Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 02:56 +0000
        Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-28 20:54 -0700
          Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 05:49 +0000
            Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-28 23:21 -0700
              Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-28 23:28 -0700
              Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 09:35 +0000
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-08-29 11:52 +0200
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-29 12:09 -0700
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-08-29 13:43 -0600
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-29 13:08 -0700
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-29 11:58 -0700
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 19:24 +0000
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-29 12:52 -0700
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 20:02 +0000
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-08-29 20:33 +0000
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-29 13:56 -0700
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 22:04 +0000
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-08-29 15:22 -0700
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-08-29 23:10 +0000
                Re: Ping Owl: Your preview PDF vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-08-29 23:23 +0000

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