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Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
Joop:
Too bad that the focus is n longer on Firefox 45.9.0. It still not running on my system due to libc problems, and as far as I can read, I'm not alone with this problem.
Joop:
--- Quote from: Dariusz Piatkowski on July 27, 2018, 04:05:10 pm ---1) Lucide 1.40 GA - crashes with large PDF files (http://trac.netlabs.org/lucide/ticket/355)
Ticket opened Apr-6th, 1st response Apr-9th, potential workaround only identified on Apr-17th and confirmed that the ticket will not be worked on due to lack of resources...and so it sits out there today despite the fact that it is probably the only native PDF viewer we have. So I go back to my GSView until I can one day (hopefully) run Lucide again.
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First, once IBM gave us "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". So, don't trash your working version of a program for some new one. Whatever the reason might be.
Said that, this doesn't help you. Just did a test with a pdf twice the size with
Lucide 1.3.2 GA (2010-04-22) - no problems
JPDFViewer (see my site) - no problems
May be this helps.
ivan:
I agree with Joop on the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.
Your large PDF runs on Lucide 1.3.5 on my OS/2 install without any RPM/YUM junk.
I also still use Dave's firefox 17.0.11 ESR although there are some https sites that no longer work with the old security certificates so I am now trying to get the later version of firefox to run without breaking the programs that I normally use - not an easy task as some of the new required dlls do NOT play nice with older programs.
Dariusz Piatkowski:
Jeep & ivan,
I agree, hindsight is always 20/20 right? Look, I upgraded to 1.4.0 for several reasons, the big one was that printing in the older versions would fail in about 50-75% of the cases...literally, a single page would print then I'd get a postscript error on the 2nd page. Besides that, as poppler library was changing I thought it made more sense to keep things in sync with the other apps which were using it.
Anyways, given the hard-disk speed improvements I've found with my move to a SSD (Samsung Evo850, even though I'm still stuck on SATAII due to my old hardware) I am happy to report that QPDFView works quite fine here. No slower then openning up the native Lucide browser...who knows...maybe one day I'll actually move to the CUPS printing system too???
ivan:
Hi Dariusz, If you don't mind me asking what printer are you using?
Here I have a couple of Brother colour postscript laser printers (DCP-9020cdw and HL-3170cdw). Both work using the IBM postscript driver with the ppd files imported (they also work with the enhanced postscript driver by Alex Taylor) but let CUPS near them and very strange bad things happen.
The last big print job I did on the 9020 ran to nearly two full paper trays and that was double sided printing, via Lucide and didn't miss anything even with refilling the paper tray.
All of the above was from my OS/2 install. I have had print errors when printing with Lucide on ArcaOS but put it down to the fact that CUPS is also installed there (had to fight to install any version of the postscript driver). Now I am wondering if there might be a dll problem since it started after I let yum update everything as a test.
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