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Re: acroread crashes



"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> 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.

How about just adopting and fixing gv?  :)

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg00664.html

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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