Re: free alternative acroread

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:31:36 +0530 (IST)
Girish Kulkarni <girish@athene.org.in> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> > Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any
> > easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which
> > don't have the option?
> 
> The print menu in Evince lets you scale the document and watch a
> preview (see the Page Setup tab).  And the Print Setup menu lets you
> specify paper size.  Wouldn't this do what you want?
> 
> Girish.
> 

‎The missing part is doing it automatically and by default on documents. Having
to do it each time is annoying and can be enough not to switch. Personally I
haven't found any PDF reader that competes with acroread for text quality,
image rotation and presentation support.