Re: Why is acroread so popular, and why are the free alternatives not good enough?

[Morten Werner Forsbring <werner@forsbring.no>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> According to <URL:http://popcon.skolelinux.org/unknown/by_vote>,
> acroread is the most popular package in Debian Edu that is missing in
> Debian.  46% of the population got it installed, and 30% used it last
> week.  Anyone know why it is so popular?  What features does it
> provide that the free PDF viewers do not?  Is there anything we could
> do to fulfil this need with free software?

Personally I prefer xpdf over acroread because it's less bloated, but
acroread have better/easier stuff for (advanced) printing than xpdf.


- Werner