Re: acroread crashes
On 04 Dec 2001 21:52:16 -0800, Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> wrote:
> Stig Brautaset <stigbrau@start.no> writes:
>
> > * Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> spake thus:
> > > Hi Ben!
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply!
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote:
> > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that
> > > > they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that linux
> > > > exemplifies.
> > >
> > > Would love to do that if xpdf worked as nice as as a *working* acroread.
> > >
> > > > in any case, xpdf works just fine.
> > >
> > > Don't think so. xpdf surely is not bad, but, as I already stated in my
> > > previous mail, seems to have severe problems in rendering pages.
> >
> > Then try gv. It works better for me with pdf's than xpdf. It does not
> > complain about the document using Type 3 fonts either, which usually is
> > the error xpdf gives me.
>
> gv's a nice piece of software, but upstream has been dead for 4 (!)
> years.
Yea, but GhostScript does much of the heavy lifting, and it certainly isn't
dead (at least the Aladdin version)... The biggest drag vs. AcroRead is
lack of bookmark/hyperlink navigation. I've written a few LaTeX documents
that make heavy use of cross references, etc... and the features really
help navigating large documents...
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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