Re: Why acroread instead of xpdf?

["C. Gatzemeier" <c.gatzemeier@tu-bs.de>]

Am Tuesday 27 September 2005 23:22 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Andreas Tille]
>
> > Some nice features of latex-beamer (for instance transparency in
> > images) are only available with acroread.  I would love to switch to
> > xpdf if it would as feature complete as acroread is.
>
> Right.  What bug # is this?  I would love to have xpdf a full-fledged
> alternative to acroread myself, as long as the license of acroread is
> as it is. :)

PDF Viewers based on the poppler library fork of xpdf, like kpdf, evince etc. 
seem to do increasingly better than xpdf.

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Poppler+Library+Talk