Evince works for me under FVWM (though I rarely use it).
--
John Hasler
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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On 15/2/25 06:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:

I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit through snail mail.

In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine for display purposes. But with my new printer (Brother DCP-L2640DW), printing from Acrobat fails. The request gets to the printer, but localhost:631 shows "Can't detect file type". So I've been happy printing from qpdfview, until now. Now the dollar amounts I entered on the forms look OK in qpdfview's display but print in a very thin font. Any ideas how to fix this?

Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager.

Thanks.

I understood that all government departments, including the tax
department had been shut down, and, all government employees sacked, in
Mexican America (also known as the Soviet Republic of Donaldduckestan,
after its president, donald duck), formerly known as the USA, being shut
down by the DOGI (pronounced Dodgy) - Department Of Government
Inefficiency (with the sole objective of maximising disruption and inefficiency) Elongated Muskrat.

I use primarily Evince, runnimg on the MATE desktop environement, and,
it seems to work okay.

I suggest that you give it a try.

I have found that an application for one Desktop environment, will
generally work without problems, on another desktop environment, so, KDE applications will work equally well on MATE, as will gnome and xfce applications.

You simply need to try, rather than dismissing without trying - it is
the old proverb - "You never know, unless you try".

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............

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On 2/14/25 15:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:

I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit through snail mail.

In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine for display purposes. But with my new printer (Brother DCP-L2640DW), printing from Acrobat fails. The request gets to the printer, but localhost:631 shows "Can't detect file type". So I've been happy printing from qpdfview, until now. Now the dollar amounts I entered on the forms look OK in qpdfview's display but print in a very thin font. Any ideas how to fix this?

Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager.

Thanks.

Hi,
Xpdf prints double-sided by default for me. I have a Lexmark E260DN
printer. The default font is neither too thin or too thick. It must be
the Goldilocks font.
Best regards,
Fred

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"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" <kleenesj@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> wrote:

I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit
through snail mail.

In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine
for display purposes. But with my new printer (Brother DCP-L2640DW), printing from Acrobat fails. The request gets to the printer, but localhost:631 shows "Can't detect file type". So I've been happy
printing from qpdfview, until now. Now the dollar amounts I entered
on the forms look OK in qpdfview's display but print in a very thin
font. Any ideas how to fix this?

Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers
none of the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't
try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window
manager.

Thanks.

So choose a different font that works!? Or use evince. Or give up and
read Bret's thoughtful contribution :)

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Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:

Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager.

Unless you are extremely low on disk space, there is no reason
to think that Evince or Okular will not run on your machine.
Without their supportive environments, it will just be harder
for you to change the way that they are themed.

-dsr-

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Which fonts are used by the pdf file?
You could try

pdffonts PDF_FILE

The command is contained in package poppler-utils.
Regards,
Jörg.

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On Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 06:47:23 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote:

Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:

Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager.

Unless you are extremely low on disk space, there is no reason
to think that Evince or Okular will not run on your machine.
Without their supportive environments, it will just be harder
for you to change the way that they are themed.

Without a DE, okular is quite a large install. On my bullseye, it
would require 194 new packages, including switching fuse to fuse3,
which might affect ntfs-3g and jmtpfs.

OTOH, I have evince installed from when I set up the machine,
and 48 extra packages were installed at the step:
# apt-get -y install arandr evince fvwm fvwm-icons

I'm not sure whether the DCP-L2640DW is brand-new or just new
to the OP. I use driverless printing on my 6-yr old HL-L2390DW
to print PDFs, never having printed directly from an application
beyond using CUPS. Would that be worth a try?

For two-sided portrait, I use:

lp -d brother -o media=letter -o print-quality=5 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge "$@"

where brother is the device name. (It's wrapped in a function
of course, called print-2s-portrait, hence the $@.)

Cheers,
David.

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