Re: PDF viewer...
Unfortunately my experience is that acroread is the most reliable,
particularly for commerically-produced pdf's like one finds on the web. It
sure would be nice to have a non-Adobe option, given their recent
behavior.
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 pacmac@overcloack.net wrote:
> I use acroread, and it works fine :-)
>
> apt-get install acroread
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there!
> > >
> > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed
> > > Acrobat Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped.
> >
> > Acrobat Reader is actually the best of them by far. It renders legibly,
> > doesn't crash that I've seen, and can navigate within the document.
> > Unfortunately it is Not Free and also only available on Intel
> > architecture.
> >
> > xpdf is pretty good but not as legible as Acrobat.
> >
> > ggv frequently fails to parse the PDF document. I'd actually say that 9
> > times out of 10 ggv will choke on a document I download from the Internet.
> >
> > HTH,
> > jwb
> >
> >
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