[ale] Okular-PDF, was Re: Flash Video

[Scott Castaline]

On 06/19/2010 04:32 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> On 06/19/2010 04:14 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>
>> I had a similar issue printing PDF docs ( I had lots of printing
>> problems..)
>> and I finally installed okular, and put it as my default PDF file
>> viewer. It
>> is FAST!, works great, and prints nicely! viewing PDF files in firefox, I
>> cannot print them, okular works every time.
>>
> Just googled okular and this came up #4:
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4131
> looks like it's dying. I use the gnome desktop, do you know how much
> extra stuff I need to use or at least try it? Also when I do search for
> it I come up with these 2 pkgs:
>
> kdegraphics "KDE Graphics Applications"
> kpartsplugin "KParts technology to embed file viewers into non-KDE
> browsers"

WOW, never mind, I just went ahead and installed both pkgs and it had to 
install about 7 other pkgs first but when it came up it printed without 
any glitch and just like Adobe. In fact the interface kind of reminded 
me of Adobe, but it definitely has more to it than Evince. Between this 
and K3B I'm almost tempted to switch to KDE and say bye-bye to gnome.