Viewing PDFs
Does an OSS PDF viewer exist or is a user expected to have Adobe Acrobat? I mean something with more precision than xpdf. (I believe that KPDF is only a container for xpdf. Please correct me if this is not true.)
OSS office software exists (OpenOffice, KOffice, etc.) that can produce PDF files. I am unaware of OSS viewers. For that matter, how capable is the PDF exporter of KOffice?
OpenOffice can produce PDF files but cannot view them, something I find mildly amusing and yet frustrating. Does an open-source version of the Adobe Writer suite exist?
A more pertinent question may be: Does the Linux OS support the display and printing of graphics with the precision of the MacOS? (I use that as a standard against which to measure the precision and cleanliness of printed/displayed material.)
Disclaimer: I love KDE 3.2.1 and breathlessly await KDE 3.3
as we march towards KDE 4.0 (Oh! Could it be?)
Robert Tilley
tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com
bobt@cocoa.tybrin.com
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