ePDF Viewer 0.1.8 for Wary Puppy 5.3 & 5.3.90
Posted: Sat 03 Nov 2012, 11:18
I am currently testing the beta version of Wary Puppy, and I see that it still has ePDFView version 0.1.7 While version 0.1.8 came out last year, BarryK found there were issues with it while trying to print, and so he rolled back Poppler which is one of the dependencies for this app. Since then, some other issues were found with printing in Wary Puppy that were looked at, and fixed (I think)...
That said, I decided to try compiling version 0.1.8 in Wary 5.3.90 to see if it would work, because there are some important bug fixes in this release especially with respect to keyboard behavior. So far my tests are positive: the program appears to install correctly, printing works, and the backspace and enter keys are working properly within this program. However, since Wary is still beta, and there may be other issues that I am not aware of, (Barry may have some solid reasons for not upgrading ePDFView at present) I am offering this Pet now for testing purposes in Wary 5.3.90 only.
Install this Pet normally, that is to say, let it overwrite the existing version of ePDFViewer built into Puppy. If desired, it's easy to remove the newest version in Puppy Package Manager, and revert to using the old one instead.
Note that I did compile the source code for the current Wary 5.3 but I had some issues with the menu in JWM, so again, my pet is for testing purposes in Wary 5.3.90 only.
Edit: I don't know how I missed this, but I have ePDF Viewer showing up in three places in the Menu: in Documents, Utilities, and Graphic so there are still issues to sort out with the menu. As a workaround, I tried deleting the entries within the Utilities and Graphic categories in .jwmrc, saving the changes and restarting JWM but... the menu entries returned on next re-boot.
Hmmm, I'll have to think about this... not sure where the problem lies exactly. I may opt to re-compile ePDF Viewer to the local path like I did for Wary 5.3 just so the menu stays in order.
If anyone has some good ideas, suggestions, info re: troubleshooting the issues with the menu, I am interested in hearing from you...
Update: November 6th
I re-compiled with a new configuration of .desktop file in source code and it appears that the issues with the menu have been resolved... yes! Therefore I've uploaded a new Pet for testing in Wary 5.3.90
Thanks,
Monsie
That said, I decided to try compiling version 0.1.8 in Wary 5.3.90 to see if it would work, because there are some important bug fixes in this release especially with respect to keyboard behavior. So far my tests are positive: the program appears to install correctly, printing works, and the backspace and enter keys are working properly within this program. However, since Wary is still beta, and there may be other issues that I am not aware of, (Barry may have some solid reasons for not upgrading ePDFView at present) I am offering this Pet now for testing purposes in Wary 5.3.90 only.
Install this Pet normally, that is to say, let it overwrite the existing version of ePDFViewer built into Puppy. If desired, it's easy to remove the newest version in Puppy Package Manager, and revert to using the old one instead.
Note that I did compile the source code for the current Wary 5.3 but I had some issues with the menu in JWM, so again, my pet is for testing purposes in Wary 5.3.90 only.
Edit: I don't know how I missed this, but I have ePDF Viewer showing up in three places in the Menu: in Documents, Utilities, and Graphic so there are still issues to sort out with the menu. As a workaround, I tried deleting the entries within the Utilities and Graphic categories in .jwmrc, saving the changes and restarting JWM but... the menu entries returned on next re-boot.
Hmmm, I'll have to think about this... not sure where the problem lies exactly. I may opt to re-compile ePDF Viewer to the local path like I did for Wary 5.3 just so the menu stays in order.
If anyone has some good ideas, suggestions, info re: troubleshooting the issues with the menu, I am interested in hearing from you...
Update: November 6th
I re-compiled with a new configuration of .desktop file in source code and it appears that the issues with the menu have been resolved... yes! Therefore I've uploaded a new Pet for testing in Wary 5.3.90
Thanks,
Monsie