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Re: acroread crashes



on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:52:16PM -0800, Brian Nelson (nelson@bignachos.com) wrote:
> Stig Brautaset <stigbrau@start.no> writes:

<...>

> > 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.

It's not dead, it's resting!

Seriously, gv's largely a wrapper on postscript.  It's mature, and it
pretty much works.  There's a bunch of runalikes for Gnome, KDE, etc.,
but the basic functionality's there.  Frankly, I wish more viewers were
as intuitively easy to use.

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