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| 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> |
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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