Re: Acroread
Hi,
* Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> [030515 22:21]:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:15:10PM +0200, Mario wrote:
> > Someone know what's wrong with acroread, why it's lost from official
> > repository?
>
> As has been announced on the RC bug announcements for the last 60+
> weeks, it's built against zlib which apparently violates policy.
> Since Adobe didn't fix it upstream, Acroread gets the boot. This is a
> good thing, acroread sucked, was non-free, and Adobe ignored it's
> problems. Essentially, it got booted for exactly the same reasons
> people don't choose proprietary software.
>
> xpdf, kghostview, and many others can read PDF documents as well or
> (usually) way better than acroread. Use those instead, you'll wonder
> why you lamented acroread's disappearance.
I've been trying to avoid acroread, but sometimes it really is the best
program for the job (that I know of). If I'm wrong about any of the
following please tell me: I would love to never have to use it again.
Things that acroread can do and others can not:
1. American "letter" pdf to "a4" ps. I often get "letter" pdf
documents from US colleague that I wish to print. I need to make them a4
so that I can print them, thus far the only tool I've found that can
do this is acroread.
2. Double buffering for smooth page "turning" during presentations.
Acroread is great for this. I can flick from page to page seamlessly
when giving a talk. Lately I've taken to using pspresent and postscript
for this... but it's not ideal.
3. Correct display with landscape pdf. I often wish to look at
presentations of others. I find that usually gnome-gv and gv (sorry not
sure about xpdf) screw up the orientation and end up clipping about
one third of each page if the original pdf is landscape.
If some one knows solutions to these problems, please let me know I
really want to give acroread the ass.
Cheers,
Nick.
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