On Friday 08 March 2019 01:54:00 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 08 March 2019 00:18:11 David C. Rankin wrote:
> > On 03/01/2019 08:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings;
> > >
> > > After this mornings update, which refreshed about 25% of tde, I ran
> > > okular to check on the docs for something synaptic showed me in a
> > > changelog from linuxcnc, and got this spew in the terminal I ran
> > > okular from after I had rebooted:
> > >
> > > gene@GO704:~$ okular
> >
> > Gene,
> >
> >   Okular was the KDE4 replacement to kpdf that had a number of bugs.
> > It is the pdf viewer in KDE5 (Plasma) -- it has gotten better there,
> > but....
> >
> > none of that explains how its failure is related to TDE? I suspect you
> > have installed okular and it has pulled in its KDE4/Plasma
> > dependencies and -- how now fallen flat on it face (a routine problem
> > with KDE4/Plasma).
>
> And just one of the reasons I baled to TDE. :)
>
> >   Additionally, it is based on Qt4/Frameworks in the various versions,
> > so there shouldn't be a Qt conflict.
> >
> >   Changes in TDE should not affect okular and vice-versa (it would be
> > very strange if there was still a common library name being used
> > between the two -- and then your package manager should have flagged
> > it).
> >
> > Also note:
> >
> > kbuildsycoca4 running...
> > kbuildsycoca4(3570) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: checking file
> > timestamps
> > kbuildsycoca4(3570) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: timestamps check ok
> > kbuildsycoca4(3570) kdemain: Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ()
> >
> >
> > kbuildsycoca4 is the KDE4 (KDE Build System Config Cache)
>
> And what do you call your equivalent to kbuildsycoca4?
>
> > I think you have a KDE4/Qt4 problem -- who would have thought... Nuke
> > it!
>
> But if you want a clean printout, okular is king. Telling evince to fit
> to page runs stuff off the top and bottom of the page, on a printer that
> claims to be borderless, but is perfect as a viewer. I haven't used kpdf
> enough to reach a conclusion on that point, but clicking on links within
> a document that point to another section of that same document does not
> work, so I wind up using okular or evince again, where IIRC it does, I
> think, thinker needs more caffeine this time of the morning as it just
> short of 5 am here.
>
> So to get this straight in my ancient head, which of the 3 is the TDE
> preferred pdf utility?
>
>
> In the list of pdf viewer/printers possible
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

KPDF is King! 
!!!!!!!

Bill