Today, I had to fill in a #PDF form to send to my insurer. I opened it with #GNOME Document Viewer and filled in the various fields without any problem 🙂
Unfortunately, at the end of the document, we have to write our name and sign, but the application doesn't offer any options for adding text and inserting an image 😬
Since everyone praising the functional richness of #KDE applications, I decide to install #Okular. Except that it doesn't let you insert images either. No sooner installed than uninstalled ☹️
So I decided to try my luck directly with #Firefox. And then, a miracle. It's only a web browser, but it allowed me to insert my signature with disconcerting ease. Thanks #Mozilla 🤗 💖
Warum muss Blättern in PDFs so scheiße sein? Warum laden/rendern die Seiten beim Scrollen nach? Und warum können das die PDF-Betrachter in Browsern so viel flüssiger als die nativen PDF-Betrachter für Linux? Ich hab hier einen Gaming-PC und in #Okular die Speicherauslastung auf "gierig" gestellt, ich seh es nicht ein, dass ich beim Blättern weiße Seiten sehen muss.
Dude. I've always used the default (on #Plasma, I think) #Okular app for my PDF needs on #Linux, and it's been fine and I'll continue to do so. But annotation isn't its best quality.
I needed to sign some documents today and was looking into any apps I could use my cheap "drawing tablet" with to annotate. You could sorta make do with Okular for that but it's "drawing" annotation isn't really designed for anything but to draw lines - so everything will be "blocky" or "jagged" rather than appear natural/free flow.
Looking up online people kept recommending #Xournal, I ignored it too many times just bcos of its very Linuxy name lmao but IT'S SO GOOD and is exactly what I (and YOU) need. You could use it to draw/write notes as you would on say, an #iPad, or even to draw/annotate on PDFs. I've just started using it at the time of writing this but I love it already and can see that it's very capable, and intuitive.
I literally just connected my drawing tablet to my #SteamDeck dock, installed the Xournal app from the #Discover app store as a #Flatpak, open up my PDF with Xournal and started writing and exported my doc as a PDF. People need to know about this app.
One of the reasons I keep updating my list of modern tools is that they make life better for individual people. Not cloud services or fleet managers, just humans trying to get human-scale things done.
I want to learn about the improvements in computing that make life better for people who don't own a hundred thousand computers or want renting them out to work better.
We need to start seeing rentier computing and the cost of its primacy for the corrosive force it is.
@mhoye The markdown renderers are interesting; I rarely do markdown, but had to yesterday and saw someone point out that #okular can do it, and it does - and since I've already got it installed then it's the easiest.
#How-to #PDF#printing with predefined print parameters?
I am running #Linux with #KDE Plasma and do some printing (stickers, zines and such). Currently I am using #Okular for that, and I have to set printing parameters every time: number of copies, page size, margins, scaling, paper type and source, etc..
What I would like to have is a set of print "modes" I could apply to any given pdf or graphic file and have it printed in a standard way. I can even stretch my competences and write a shell script, if I know what utility to use.
@lukas@mintapps Klingt super. Wäre ein weiterer Grund, der für die MintApps spricht.
2 Fragen aus Interesse:
Gibt es denn neben #Okular bereits weitere Software, die mit dem blauen Engel ausgezeichnet wurde?
Und wie aufwändig ist das Testverfahren in der Praxis?
At last, there seems to be a tool for embedding #MovieClips into #Beamer#presentations (i.e. #PDF files) for #GNU plus #Linux systems. It’s a previewer called #pdfpc which recognizes the movie and you can start it, pause it, etc with your mouse. If your machine is attached to a second screen, it automatically displays the presentation #Fullscreen on it.
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to TRY to accurately measure my power consumption doing daily work tasks on my big tower PC, the Steam Deck, and the HP Dev One laptop. (Using a Kill-A-Watt P3).
ALSO? Gaming power consumption comparisons between my desktop PC & the Xbox Series X, both at 4K resolution.
I expect it will be an eye-opening experience and I'll never turn on my tower again.
This will undoubtedly branch off into all kinds of software testing too. YES, I'll record & share data...