[opensuse] pdf preview in dolphin?
I'm pretty certain I've been here before, but I can't find the bugreport (if I wrote one). I'm still hoping to get *office and pdf previews in dolphin in Leap42.1 (before it turns to 42.2) - those are a must for office work. After googling quite a bit, I installed kdegraphics-thumbnailers, but that didn't bring any improvement. What else do I need to do? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-05 11:54, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm pretty certain I've been here before, but I can't find the bugreport (if I wrote one). I'm still hoping to get *office and pdf previews in dolphin in Leap42.1 (before it turns to 42.2) - those are a must for office work. After googling quite a bit, I installed kdegraphics-thumbnailers, but that didn't bring any improvement. What else do I need to do?
I initiated a thread on that problem this year, but I use 13.1. For PDF previews. I solved it, but the previews are smallish. So sometimes I convert whole directories of PDFs to DjVu, which are displayed bigger. 16-04-03 15:14 [opensuse] I wonder if there is a quick PDF viewer The post I wrote Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:20:17 +0200 (CEST) contains the solution I found. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-05 11:54, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm pretty certain I've been here before, but I can't find the bugreport (if I wrote one). I'm still hoping to get *office and pdf previews in dolphin in Leap42.1 (before it turns to 42.2) - those are a must for office work. After googling quite a bit, I installed kdegraphics-thumbnailers, but that didn't bring any improvement. What else do I need to do?
I initiated a thread on that problem this year, but I use 13.1. For PDF previews. I solved it, but the previews are smallish. So sometimes I convert whole directories of PDFs to DjVu, which are displayed bigger.
16-04-03 15:14 [opensuse] I wonder if there is a quick PDF viewer
The post I wrote Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:20:17 +0200 (CEST) contains the solution I found.
IIRC, I never had this problem on 13.1 - thumbnails and previews just worked. Most of my office desktops are 13.1. Anyway, this is Leap421 with KDE5. This and the alt-tab problem are probably the two last major stumbling blocks. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/05/2016 02:54 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm pretty certain I've been here before, but I can't find the bugreport (if I wrote one). I'm still hoping to get *office and pdf previews in dolphin in Leap42.1 (before it turns to 42.2) - those are a must for office work. After googling quite a bit, I installed kdegraphics-thumbnailers, but that didn't bring any improvement. What else do I need to do?
I've answered this a few times, and each time I had to research it all over again. Old age. The Mind is the Second thing to go. sigh... Anyway, in dolphin, make sure you visit Settings / Configure Dolphin / General / Previews and scroll all the way down till you find pdf and make sure its checked. Check all of the others you are likely to use while you are at it. At least that way dolphin will try. Then its just a matter of what packages you have to support it. I have only a few installed that specifically mention PDF, either in their name or in the description: Ghostscript, libobasis5.1... libpoppler... (three of those) libqpdf13 poppler-tools, calligra-krita gimp gstreamer libe graphicsmagick libe magiccpre okular There are of course many more that mention pdf, but I don't have them installed. I'm not sure of those that I DO have installed which of those are needed for pdf previews. The previews in Dolphin right side panel are scale-able by just scaling that panel. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/05/2016 02:13 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-05 23:11, John Andersen wrote:
The previews in Dolphin right side panel are scale-able by just scaling that panel.
PDF not fully. At least on 13.1.
Mind do, but I'm using 13.2 and the Kde4.4.xx that came with it. Works also Manjaro 16 with kde5/plasma5. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.
On 08/05/2016 04:11 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Anyway, in dolphin, make sure you visit Settings / Configure Dolphin / General / Previews and scroll all the way down till you find pdf and make sure its checked. Check all of the others you are likely to use while you are at it.
That would be wonderful if Dolphin offered a pdf choice, which mine does not. OS13.1 here -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 05/08/16 08:05 PM, Stevens wrote:
On 08/05/2016 04:11 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Anyway, in dolphin, make sure you visit Settings / Configure Dolphin / General / Previews and scroll all the way down till you find pdf and make sure its checked. Check all of the others you are likely to use while you are at it.
That would be wonderful if Dolphin offered a pdf choice, which mine does not. OS13.1 here
Nor do I find a pdf choice in Leap with Dolphin 15.12.3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-06 04:05, Stevens wrote:
On 08/05/2016 04:11 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Anyway, in dolphin, make sure you visit Settings / Configure Dolphin / General / Previews and scroll all the way down till you find pdf and make sure its checked. Check all of the others you are likely to use while you are at it.
That would be wonderful if Dolphin offered a pdf choice, which mine does not. OS13.1 here
That happens when you do not have the required packages installed. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-06 04:05, Stevens wrote:
On 08/05/2016 04:11 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Anyway, in dolphin, make sure you visit Settings / Configure Dolphin / General / Previews and scroll all the way down till you find pdf and make sure its checked. Check all of the others you are likely to use while you are at it.
That would be wonderful if Dolphin offered a pdf choice, which mine does not. OS13.1 here
That happens when you do not have the required packages installed.
Does anyone _know_ which packages are required? It's difficult to believe we're actually discussing this for functionality that used to come by default. For me it works fine in 13.1, has done for a long time. I wonder if I compare the lists of installed packages ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-06 10:05, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
That happens when you do not have the required packages installed.
Does anyone _know_ which packages are required? It's difficult to believe we're actually discussing this for functionality that used to come by default.
In the thread I mentioned we discussed that. One suggestion was to look at an earlier thread. Here: 15-01-24 15:18 Istvan Gabor [opensuse] KDE4 dolphin pdf file preview ]> I grepped for "dolphin" and "view". The suggestion ]> is to use konqueror, and it doesn't work. I can right click on a file, ]> and ask for a preview, which can be done by a netscape plugin (error ]> message unable to load plugin), but which opens a panel, or preview in ]> okular, which works, but is in fact a full view, the panel with the list ]> of files is lost, so that I can not browse the files with the cursor and ]> see their content in a panel or window automatically. ]> I see notes for kubuntu, and bugzillas at openSUSE saying that it is ]> broken. And as I'm using 13.1, there is no chance of getting it ]> repaired, I think. ]> ]> On kubuntu, it suggests installing "kdegraphics-strigi-plugins", which I ]> don't see. Maybe: ]> ]> kdegraphics-thumbnailers - Graphics file thumbnail generators ]> ]> I'll try installing that. [...] YES! It works now. Thanks! :-) ]> ]> Although it is almost unreadable. Even setting dolphin to full window, ]> and the preview pane to half of that, the receipt is displayed in the ]> center with large empty band around (as big as the receipt itself). The ]> contextual menu of the preview doesn't adjust anything of the preview, ]> but of the file properties; and ctrl+/- adjusts the size of the file ]> pane, not the preview pane. ]> ]> I can barely see what each bank receipt is about. ]> ]> ]> It is a huge advance, but I'm not there yet... ]> I found a working workaround: convert the files to djvu with pdf2djvu. ]> The dvju preview is much better, it resizes to the pane border, as large ]> as I want.
For me it works fine in 13.1, has done for a long time. I wonder if I compare the lists of installed packages ?
Yes, I would you that. I can run a package list command that you suggest in my working 13.1 -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
On 08/06/2016 06:22 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-06 10:05, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
In the thread I mentioned we discussed that. One suggestion was to look at an earlier thread. Here:
15-01-24 15:18 Istvan Gabor [opensuse] KDE4 dolphin pdf file preview
<snip>
]> ]> On kubuntu, it suggests installing "kdegraphics-strigi-plugins", which I ]> don't see. Maybe: ]> ]> kdegraphics-thumbnailers - Graphics file thumbnail generators ]> ]> I'll try installing that. [...] YES! It works now. Thanks! :-)
================ That worked for me. Muchas gracias, Carlos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Stevens wrote:
On 08/06/2016 06:22 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-06 10:05, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
In the thread I mentioned we discussed that. One suggestion was to look at an earlier thread. Here:
15-01-24 15:18 Istvan Gabor [opensuse] KDE4 dolphin pdf file preview
<snip>
]> ]> On kubuntu, it suggests installing "kdegraphics-strigi-plugins", which I ]> don't see. Maybe: ]> ]> kdegraphics-thumbnailers - Graphics file thumbnail generators ]> ]> I'll try installing that. [...] YES! It works now. Thanks! :-)
================
That worked for me.
I've also got that installed, but I still get no thumbnails nor previews. kdegraphics-thumbnailers-15.12.3-15.1.x86_64 -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Saturday, 6 August 2016 15:27:47 BST Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens wrote:
On 08/06/2016 06:22 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-06 10:05, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote: In the thread I mentioned we discussed that. One suggestion was to look at an earlier thread. Here:
15-01-24 15:18 Istvan Gabor [opensuse] KDE4 dolphin pdf file preview
<snip>
]> ]> On kubuntu, it suggests installing "kdegraphics-strigi-plugins", which I ]> don't see. Maybe: ]> ]> kdegraphics-thumbnailers - Graphics file thumbnail generators ]> ]> I'll try installing that. [...] YES! It works now. Thanks! :-)
================
That worked for me.
I've also got that installed, but I still get no thumbnails nor previews.
kdegraphics-thumbnailers-15.12.3-15.1.x86_64
I'm on tumbleweed and i didn't have PDF viewing in dolphin either. I downloaded the same file as you but version 16.04.3-1.1, i then had to configure dolphin to allow view for Postscript/PDF and it works now. -- Qt: 5.6.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.24.0 kf5-config: 1.0 KDE Plasma: 5.7.3 Kernel: 4.7.0-1-default "openSUSE Tumbleweed (20160730) (x86_64)" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-06 10:05, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
That happens when you do not have the required packages installed.
Does anyone _know_ which packages are required? It's difficult to believe we're actually discussing this for functionality that used to come by default.
In the thread I mentioned we discussed that. One suggestion was to look at an earlier thread. Here:
Yes, but as I mentioned, I already have kdegraphics-thumbnailer installed.
For me it works fine in 13.1, has done for a long time. I wonder if I compare the lists of installed packages ?
Yes, I would you that. I can run a package list command that you suggest in my working 13.1
No need, I'll use my own. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-06 10:05, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
That happens when you do not have the required packages installed.
Does anyone _know_ which packages are required? It's difficult to believe we're actually discussing this for functionality that used to come by default.
In the thread I mentioned we discussed that. One suggestion was to look at an earlier thread. Here:
Yes, but as I mentioned, I already have kdegraphics-thumbnailer installed.
For me it works fine in 13.1, has done for a long time. I wonder if I compare the lists of installed packages ?
Yes, I would you that. I can run a package list command that you suggest in my working 13.1
No need, I'll use my own.
I ran a diff on the two lists striiped of architecture and versioning - then I looked at what was not on office34 (Leap421), and what match 'kde' - per@office34:~/Documents> grep -- ^-.*kde off11-34.diff -bundle-lang-kde-en -flash-player-kde -kde4-kgreeter-plugins -kde4-l10n-en_GB -kde4-l10n-en_GB-data -kde4-l10n-en_GB-doc -kde4-print-manager -kdebase4-openSUSE -kdebase4-session -kdebase4-workspace -kdebase4-workspace-ksysguardd -kdebase4-workspace-liboxygenstyle -kdebase4-workspace-plasma-calendar -kdegames4-carddecks-default -kde-gtk-config-lang -kde-odf-thumbnail -opera-kde -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_basis -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_games -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_imaging -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_internet -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_multimedia -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_office -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_pure -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_utilities -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_utilities_opt -patterns-openSUSE-kde4_yast -python-kde -python-kde4-akonadi -python-kde4-khtml -python-kde4-knewstuff -python-kde4-nepomuk -python-kde4-phonon -python-kde4-plasma -python-kde4-soprano -python-kdebase Not overly useful :-( Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.1°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-07 01:00, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around.
...which is why I convert the pdf files to djvu files, and preview those instead. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
On 06/08/16 08:42 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 01:00, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around. ...which is why I convert the pdf files to djvu files, and preview those instead.
...which doesn't do anyone any good, if they have to work with pdf files. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-07 06:27, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 08:42 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 01:00, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around. ...which is why I convert the pdf files to djvu files, and preview those instead.
...which doesn't do anyone any good, if they have to work with pdf files. ;)
On the contrary. I can preview the files without a microscope, and when I find the document I need, I can switch to the PDF in a full viewer :-) Remember that DjVu renders the complete PDF document, including pages. The only thing you lose is that text is converted to images and can not be selected as text. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
On 07/08/16 05:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 06:27, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 08:42 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 01:00, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around. ...which is why I convert the pdf files to djvu files, and preview those instead.
...which doesn't do anyone any good, if they have to work with pdf files. ;) On the contrary. I can preview the files without a microscope, and when I find the document I need, I can switch to the PDF in a full viewer :-)
Remember that DjVu renders the complete PDF document, including pages. The only thing you lose is that text is converted to images and can not be selected as text.
Fine, Carlos. That scenario is fine for you; it may not be fine for others, who must work with, rather than just read, the documents, and for whom keeping a copy of the file lying around may be an inconvenience. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-07 16:01, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 07/08/16 05:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 06:27, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
...which doesn't do anyone any good, if they have to work with pdf files. ;) On the contrary. I can preview the files without a microscope, and when I find the document I need, I can switch to the PDF in a full viewer :-)
Remember that DjVu renders the complete PDF document, including pages. The only thing you lose is that text is converted to images and can not be selected as text.
Fine, Carlos. That scenario is fine for you; it may not be fine for others, who must work with, rather than just read, the documents, and for whom keeping a copy of the file lying around may be an inconvenience.
Yes, but the PDF preview is simply unreadable small. It can not be used at all. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 16:01, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 07/08/16 05:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 06:27, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
...which doesn't do anyone any good, if they have to work with pdf files. ;) On the contrary. I can preview the files without a microscope, and when I find the document I need, I can switch to the PDF in a full viewer :-)
Remember that DjVu renders the complete PDF document, including pages. The only thing you lose is that text is converted to images and can not be selected as text.
Fine, Carlos. That scenario is fine for you; it may not be fine for others, who must work with, rather than just read, the documents, and for whom keeping a copy of the file lying around may be an inconvenience.
Yes, but the PDF preview is simply unreadable small. It can not be used at all.
Post a screenshot and let's see it, it sounds really weird. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-07 18:24, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Yes, but the PDF preview is simply unreadable small. It can not be used at all.
Post a screenshot and let's see it, it sounds really weird.
Ok, but I have to obfuscate it, because it happens with my bank slips. Later :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
On 08/07/2016 04:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 06:27, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 08:42 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 01:00, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around. ...which is why I convert the pdf files to djvu files, and preview those instead.
...which doesn't do anyone any good, if they have to work with pdf files. ;)
On the contrary. I can preview the files without a microscope, and when I find the document I need, I can switch to the PDF in a full viewer :-)
Remember that DjVu renders the complete PDF document, including pages. The only thing you lose is that text is converted to images and can not be selected as text.
But you seem to be the only one with this problem. My thumbnails and PREVIEWS are appropriately sized. Good you found a work around, but its really not necessary, and not something I could recommend as a general practice. I'd wait for a bug fix before I'd hack all my documents. But like I say, this is not necessary. previews and thumbnails work and are appropriately sized. Fix your tools, don't rebuild your document store. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.
On 2016-08-08 01:23, John Andersen wrote:
On 08/07/2016 04:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
But you seem to be the only one with this problem. My thumbnails and PREVIEWS are appropriately sized.
No, Darryl also has this problem, he said so unless I misunderstood: +++.................. Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:00:57 -0600 From: Darryl Gregorash <> Subject: Re: [opensuse] pdf preview in dolphin? On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote: ... That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around. ..................++-
Good you found a work around, but its really not necessary, and not something I could recommend as a general practice. I'd wait for a bug fix before I'd hack all my documents.
If I have to wait for a bugfix it will get here in years.
But like I say, this is not necessary. previews and thumbnails work and are appropriately sized. Fix your tools, don't rebuild your document store.
Ok, you tell me how to fix my tools. Meanwhile, I already rebuilt my document store. Tomorrow I'll post a screenshot. It is 5 AM here, I have been busy. I have to take the screenshot, then manually remove all the private data, they are bank papers, so it is something that needs time. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-08 01:23, John Andersen wrote:
On 08/07/2016 04:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
But you seem to be the only one with this problem. My thumbnails and PREVIEWS are appropriately sized.
No, Darryl also has this problem, he said so unless I misunderstood:
+++.................. Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:00:57 -0600 From: Darryl Gregorash <> Subject: Re: [opensuse] pdf preview in dolphin?
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote: ... That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around. ..................++-
Good you found a work around, but its really not necessary, and not something I could recommend as a general practice. I'd wait for a bug fix before I'd hack all my documents.
If I have to wait for a bugfix it will get here in years.
Carlos, when it works fine elsewhere it's unlikely to be a bug, it's much more likely to be a setup problem. Just like my $SUBJ issue. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-08 08:23, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Carlos, when it works fine elsewhere it's unlikely to be a bug, it's much more likely to be a setup problem. Just like my $SUBJ issue.
John, Per, others, thankyou. Here go my screenshots: PDF: http://susepaste.org/83131220 DjVu http://susepaste.org/12247121 (click on the pictures for full size view) Judge for yourselves. As you can see, the PDF preview (the right hand panel) is barely readable. The DjVu one is double size and the letters are better rendered and spaced (see the missing letter on the red dot). Sorry I had to remove most of the content, after all it is a bank slip. You can see that the PDF preview doesn't fill the window, there is a lot of blank space surrounding it. It does not resize: ctrl +/- resizes the left panel, not the right panel. This is not a huge issue for me, after all I have a method that works (convert to DjVu the entire directory with a script, skipping already converted files). Even if it is a bug, it is in 13.1, so no chances of getting it corrected. If it is some setup issue, please tell me, I'm very interested :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-08 08:23, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Carlos, when it works fine elsewhere it's unlikely to be a bug, it's much more likely to be a setup problem. Just like my $SUBJ issue.
John, Per, others, thankyou.
Here go my screenshots:
PDF: http://susepaste.org/83131220 DjVu http://susepaste.org/12247121
(click on the pictures for full size view)
Judge for yourselves. As you can see, the PDF preview (the right hand panel) is barely readable.
Just my opinion - it's a preview, it's not meant to be readable. It's only purpose is to give you an indication of whether you've got the right document before you open it. If you want to read it, you open it. /Per -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-08 12:14, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Judge for yourselves. As you can see, the PDF preview (the right hand panel) is barely readable.
Just my opinion -
it's a preview, it's not meant to be readable. It's only purpose is to give you an indication of whether you've got the right document before you open it. If you want to read it, you open it.
I have hundreds of such documents, I need to be able to read them sufficiently on the right pane, then click next, read it, click next... On the PDF directory this barely works because they are too small. On the DjVu directory it works perfectly. Only when I have to study a bank slip with care I double click to open it in full. Anyway, you can see that what I said is true: the preview does not fill the available space, and does not resize. It is either a problem of 13.1, or it is a problem of the particular type of PDF documents I have to view. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-08 12:14, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Judge for yourselves. As you can see, the PDF preview (the right hand panel) is barely readable.
Just my opinion -
it's a preview, it's not meant to be readable. It's only purpose is to give you an indication of whether you've got the right document before you open it. If you want to read it, you open it.
I have hundreds of such documents, I need to be able to read them sufficiently on the right pane, then click next, read it, click next... On the PDF directory this barely works because they are too small. On the DjVu directory it works perfectly.
Only when I have to study a bank slip with care I double click to open it in full.
Anyway, you can see that what I said is true: the preview does not fill the available space, and does not resize.
Absolutely true, same here. I just think it's working as designed. For resizing, I guess you have to resize the preview pane. If you keep the preview pane as about 1/6 of the screen width, can you read the djvu previews?
It is either a problem of 13.1, or it is a problem of the particular type of PDF documents I have to view.
Mine are mostly A4 or C5. Yours are smaller - 1/3 of an A4 page? I have some business card sized PDFs, I'll see how they turn out. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-08 13:13, Per Jessen wrote:
Anyway, you can see that what I said is true: the preview does not fill the available space, and does not resize.
Absolutely true, same here. I just think it's working as designed. For resizing, I guess you have to resize the preview pane. If you keep the preview pane as about 1/6 of the screen width, can you read the djvu previews?
The DjVu previews are full panel size, the PDF are about 1/2 at the dolphin size I printed. I have resized the panel now to 80% of the entire display, with the left panel using 20% (11cm vs 45cm). The PDF preview has a huge grey area, with a very small PDF in the middle. I can post the screenshot [...] Ok, screenshot , or you may not believe me: http://susepaste.org/59003787
It is either a problem of 13.1, or it is a problem of the particular type of PDF documents I have to view.
Mine are mostly A4 or C5. Yours are smaller - 1/3 of an A4 page? I have some business card sized PDFs, I'll see how they turn out.
Yes, 1/3, envelope size to be exact, because they are printed paper slips sent over email instead. But they are not displayed at the paper size in PDF. In DjVu the same slip resizes to the full panel. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-08 13:13, Per Jessen wrote:
Anyway, you can see that what I said is true: the preview does not fill the available space, and does not resize.
Absolutely true, same here. I just think it's working as designed. For resizing, I guess you have to resize the preview pane. If you keep the preview pane as about 1/6 of the screen width, can you read the djvu previews?
The DjVu previews are full panel size, the PDF are about 1/2 at the dolphin size I printed. I have resized the panel now to 80% of the entire display, with the left panel using 20% (11cm vs 45cm). The PDF preview has a huge grey area, with a very small PDF in the middle. I can post the screenshot [...] Ok, screenshot , or you may not believe me:
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, same thing when I look at business-card size PDFs, they also only scale up to about 80%. Well, like I said, for the preview that is sufficient for me, if I want to read the doc, I use okular.
It is either a problem of 13.1, or it is a problem of the particular type of PDF documents I have to view.
Mine are mostly A4 or C5. Yours are smaller - 1/3 of an A4 page? I have some business card sized PDFs, I'll see how they turn out.
Yes, 1/3, envelope size to be exact, because they are printed paper slips sent over email instead. But they are not displayed at the paper size in PDF.
Same with my business cards, looks like max size is about 80%. Same for A4 documents btw. If I were you and frequently needed to review many of those PDFs, I would convert them into one PDF, one slip per page and then review them using okular. /Per -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-08 17:06, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, same thing when I look at business-card size PDFs, they also only scale up to about 80%. Well, like I said, for the preview that is sufficient for me, if I want to read the doc, I use okular.
Well, I need to be able to read it in order to find the document I need to read carefully with okular.
If I were you and frequently needed to review many of those PDFs, I would convert them into one PDF, one slip per page and then review them using okular.
Mmm... that's an idea. And the result can be searched. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
On 08/08/2016 11:40 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If I were you and frequently needed to review many of those PDFs, I would convert them into one PDF, one slip per page and then review them using okular. Mmm... that's an idea. And the result can be searched.
Well, I don't know about where your PDFs come from but most of my PDFs can be indexed by Baloo and I can find them by key phrases. Of course this requires the ones that I scan into pdf myself from paper documents also go through the OCR step, because baloo can't pull text out of an image-only pdf. But most of mine come out of some document source and the full text is indexed by baloo. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.
On 2016-08-09 05:40, John Andersen wrote:
On 08/08/2016 11:40 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If I were you and frequently needed to review many of those PDFs, I would convert them into one PDF, one slip per page and then review them using okular. Mmm... that's an idea. And the result can be searched.
Well, I don't know about where your PDFs come from but most of my PDFs can be indexed by Baloo and I can find them by key phrases.
These are bank slips, emailed by the bank instead of printed and mailed as paper in envelopes. Originally they had passwords, which I removed (and stored in an encrypted disk). They are text, not scans. Per suggests that instead of having one PDF per page, I group them into one big document, which then I can view with okular and browse directly, page by page, instead of browsing with dolphin. This is a good idea, but there is a problem. Some of those documents are in fact multipage. If I group the documents for a month in a single one, I need to somehow find out which are the first pages of each original document in the joined result. Perhaps organize the index appropriately, perhaps add colour to the first page. Maybe both. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around.
On my 22" screen, both thumbnails and previews are (now) perfectly usable sizes. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-08-07 13:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around.
On my 22" screen, both thumbnails and previews are (now) perfectly usable sizes.
Huh? Does your previews fill completely the pane? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 13:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around.
On my 22" screen, both thumbnails and previews are (now) perfectly usable sizes.
Huh? Does your previews fill completely the pane?
No, they're probably 3/4 or so (when the PDF is A4 size). Something similar in the tooltip. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.7°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-08-07 13:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/08/16 07:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stevens, you only had to install "kdegraphics-thumbnailers" to get PDF thumbnails and previews to work in Leap421::dolphin? Hmm, I foresee a re-install coming up. That package also worked here. However, the previews are rather useless, unless you happen to have a spare electron microscope lying around.
On my 22" screen, both thumbnails and previews are (now) perfectly usable sizes.
Huh? Does your previews fill completely the pane?
No, they're probably 3/4 or so (when the PDF is A4 size). Something similar in the tooltip.
I couldn't get a screenshot of the tooltip, only the preview pane: http://files.jessen.ch/Screenshot_20160807_160052.jpeg http://files.jessen.ch/Screenshot_20160807_160101.jpeg http://files.jessen.ch/Screenshot_20160807_160112.jpeg They are all A4 size PDFs. -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 16:11 schreef je:
I couldn't get a screenshot of the tooltip, only the preview pane:
Set KSnapshot to: 'current [or complete] screen' or 'current window' Send it away with Escape Hover your pdf & get a tooltip Hit PrtScn Save as Done http://susepaste.org/18569365 -- Harrie Baken | Tekstbureau TekstBaken Copy-editing - proofreading (Dutch) www.tekstbaken.nl Registered Linux user #366560 | openSUSE 13.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 16:11 schreef je:
I couldn't get a screenshot of the tooltip, only the preview pane:
Set KSnapshot to: 'current [or complete] screen' or 'current window'
Yup, that's what I have.
Send it away with Escape Hover your pdf & get a tooltip Hit PrtScn Save as Done
Didn't work for me. The minute I hit prtscr, the tooltip goes away.
I'm using spectacle, you're using something else I think? ISTR recall switching to spectacle because something didn't work in ksnapshot or whatever the default is. -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
jdd wrote:
Le 07/08/2016 à 17:02, Per Jessen a écrit :
Didn't work for me. The minute I hit prtscr, the tooltip goes away.
your smartphone and owncloud?
Uh no - just Dolphin on KDE5 and Leap421 on a plain office PC. -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 07/08/2016 à 17:22, Per Jessen a écrit :
jdd wrote:
Le 07/08/2016 à 17:02, Per Jessen a écrit :
Didn't work for me. The minute I hit prtscr, the tooltip goes away.
your smartphone and owncloud?
Uh no - just Dolphin on KDE5 and Leap421 on a plain office PC.
yes, but can't you use your smartphone for screen shot? jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
jdd wrote:
Le 07/08/2016 à 17:22, Per Jessen a écrit :
jdd wrote:
Le 07/08/2016 à 17:02, Per Jessen a écrit :
Didn't work for me. The minute I hit prtscr, the tooltip goes away.
your smartphone and owncloud?
Uh no - just Dolphin on KDE5 and Leap421 on a plain office PC.
yes, but can't you use your smartphone for screen shot?
jdd
Ah, take a picture of it you mean. Yes, I could but it's not that important. -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:02 schreef je:
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 16:11 schreef je:
I couldn't get a screenshot of the tooltip, only the preview pane:
Set KSnapshot to: 'current [or complete] screen' or 'current window'
Yup, that's what I have.
Send it away with Escape Hover your pdf & get a tooltip Hit PrtScn Save as Done
Didn't work for me. The minute I hit prtscr, the tooltip goes away.
Hm..
I'm using spectacle, you're using something else I think?
Dunno, because I don't know spectacle. ;-) (It's not in my repos: "cnf spectacle" -> spectacle: commando niet gevonden)
ISTR recall switching to spectacle because something didn't work in ksnapshot or whatever the default is.
Ah, well, it's a pity. -- Harrie Baken | Tekstbureau TekstBaken Copy-editing - proofreading (Dutch) www.tekstbaken.nl Registered Linux user #366560 | openSUSE 13.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:02 schreef je:
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 16:11 schreef je:
I couldn't get a screenshot of the tooltip, only the preview pane:
Set KSnapshot to: 'current [or complete] screen' or 'current window'
Yup, that's what I have.
Send it away with Escape Hover your pdf & get a tooltip Hit PrtScn Save as Done
Didn't work for me. The minute I hit prtscr, the tooltip goes away.
Hm..
I'm using spectacle, you're using something else I think?
Dunno, because I don't know spectacle. ;-)
(It's not in my repos: "cnf spectacle" -> spectacle: commando niet gevonden)
Weird. per@office34:~> rpm -qf /usr/bin/spectacle spectacle-15.12.3-11.4.x86_64 Not sure where I got it from. -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:27 schreef je:
Harrie Baken wrote: [...]
Dunno, because I don't know spectacle. ;-)
(It's not in my repos: "cnf spectacle" -> spectacle: commando niet gevonden)
Weird.
per@office34:~> rpm -qf /usr/bin/spectacle spectacle-15.12.3-11.4.x86_64
Not sure where I got it from.
It's rather new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSnapshot#Spectacle So I guess the repos you use, are newer than those of 13.2. -- Harrie Baken | Tekstbureau TekstBaken Copy-editing - proofreading (Dutch) www.tekstbaken.nl Registered Linux user #366560 | openSUSE 13.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:27 schreef je:
Harrie Baken wrote: [...]
Dunno, because I don't know spectacle. ;-)
(It's not in my repos: "cnf spectacle" -> spectacle: commando niet gevonden)
Weird.
per@office34:~> rpm -qf /usr/bin/spectacle spectacle-15.12.3-11.4.x86_64
Not sure where I got it from.
It's rather new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSnapshot#Spectacle
So I guess the repos you use, are newer than those of 13.2.
Yes, I'm testing Leap421 for use as a general purpose office system. In fact, it looks like spectacle is the new ksnapshot. -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:41 schreef je:
Yes, I'm testing Leap421 for use as a general purpose office system. In fact, it looks like spectacle is the new ksnapshot.
Yes. So, time for a bug report. :) -- Harrie Baken | Tekstbureau TekstBaken Copy-editing - proofreading (Dutch) www.tekstbaken.nl Registered Linux user #366560 | openSUSE 13.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:41 schreef je:
Yes, I'm testing Leap421 for use as a general purpose office system. In fact, it looks like spectacle is the new ksnapshot.
Yes. So, time for a bug report. :)
Yep: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992508 -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/07/2016 08:47 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:41 schreef je:
Yes, I'm testing Leap421 for use as a general purpose office system. In fact, it looks like spectacle is the new ksnapshot.
Yes. So, time for a bug report. :)
You can do this (get a shot with tool tip shown) with Spectacle. But it should work with the printscreen key as you say. Ksnapshot does. Work around.... Launch spectacle, set wait time for 4 seconds click "take new snapshot" button position cursor to where the tool tip is and hover wait out rest of the 4 seconds. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On 08/07/2016 08:47 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Harrie Baken wrote:
Hallo Per, op 07-08-16 om 17:41 schreef je:
Yes, I'm testing Leap421 for use as a general purpose office system. In fact, it looks like spectacle is the new ksnapshot.
Yes. So, time for a bug report. :)
You can do this (get a shot with tool tip shown) with Spectacle. But it should work with the printscreen key as you say. Ksnapshot does.
Work around.... Launch spectacle, set wait time for 4 seconds click "take new snapshot" button position cursor to where the tool tip is and hover wait out rest of the 4 seconds.
Nice one, I like it :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 8/5/2016 7:05 PM, Stevens wrote:
On 08/05/2016 04:11 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Anyway, in dolphin, make sure you visit Settings / Configure Dolphin / General / Previews and scroll all the way down till you find pdf and make sure its checked. Check all of the others you are likely to use while you are at it.
That would be wonderful if Dolphin offered a pdf choice, which mine does not. OS13.1 here
It only offers choices that it can provide. Install the backends and they magically appear. That's why I listed those items dealing with PDFs that I had installed. If I had the time I would trace which are used, but jeeze guys, just install them all. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On 08/05/2016 02:54 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm pretty certain I've been here before, but I can't find the bugreport (if I wrote one). I'm still hoping to get *office and pdf previews in dolphin in Leap42.1 (before it turns to 42.2) - those are a must for office work. After googling quite a bit, I installed kdegraphics-thumbnailers, but that didn't bring any improvement. What else do I need to do?
I've answered this a few times, and each time I had to research it all over again. Old age. The Mind is the Second thing to go. sigh...
Anyway, in dolphin, make sure you visit Settings / Configure Dolphin / General / Previews and scroll all the way down till you find pdf and make sure its checked. Check all of the others you are likely to use while you are at it.
Yep, I've done all of that. (I wish there was a way to set it as the default on new installations).
At least that way dolphin will try. Then its just a matter of what packages you have to support it.
Right.
I have only a few installed that specifically mention PDF, either in their name or in the description: Ghostscript, libobasis5.1... libpoppler... (three of those) libqpdf13 poppler-tools, calligra-krita gimp gstreamer libe graphicsmagick libe magiccpre okular
There are of course many more that mention pdf, but I don't have them installed.
I'm not sure of those that I DO have installed which of those are needed for pdf previews.
The previews in Dolphin right side panel are scale-able by just scaling that panel.
The main thing is really the thumbnail, but I think thumbnail, preview and tooltip all go together. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 8/6/2016 1:02 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On 08/05/2016 02:54 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm pretty certain I've been here before, but I can't find the bugreport (if I wrote one). I'm still hoping to get *office and pdf previews in dolphin in Leap42.1 (before it turns to 42.2) - those are a must for office work. After googling quite a bit, I installed kdegraphics-thumbnailers, but that didn't bring any improvement. What else do I need to do?
I have only a few installed that specifically mention PDF, either in their name or in the description: Ghostscript, libobasis5.1... libpoppler... (three of those) libqpdf13 poppler-tools, calligra-krita gimp gstreamer libe graphicsmagick libe magiccpre okular
There are of course many more that mention pdf, but I don't have them installed.
I'm not sure of those that I DO have installed which of those are needed for pdf previews.
The previews in Dolphin right side panel are scale-able by just scaling that panel.
The main thing is really the thumbnail, but I think thumbnail, preview and tooltip all go together.
I just did this on my Manjaro machine and all I had to add was calligra kdesdk-thumbnailers raw-thumnailers (which is for cameras and not for pdf). I believe it was calligra that did the trick. Related: I've been chasing down LibreOffice thumbnailers. They work on Opensuse 13.2 but not on Manjaro. Turns out I installed LO from their site, not the Opensuse packages which are perpetually backlevel and incomplete. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
I'm pretty certain I've been here before, but I can't find the bugreport (if I wrote one). I'm still hoping to get *office and pdf previews in dolphin in Leap42.1 (before it turns to 42.2) - those are a must for office work. After googling quite a bit, I installed kdegraphics-thumbnailers, but that didn't bring any improvement. What else do I need to do?
I feel so stupid. The machine I am testing on is used by other people too, for testing. Somehow, for whatever reason, in dolphin previews for postscript/pdf were turned off .... I did not have to install calligra, afaict only kdegraphics-thumbnailers was required. It now works fine - the thumbnails were generated immediately, the preview as soon as I hover over a PDF. The preview in the tooltip and in the preview pane are both fine, the right size etc. Apologies for wasting everybody's time with this. -- Posted with knode 4.14 from openSUSE Leap42.1 office34: Cyrix 486DX2/66MHz, 4096Mb RAM, #9 GXE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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