Re: pdf readers
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> writes:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 13:10:21 -0400, MJM wrote:
>> > If anyone else has ghostview vs xpdf vs acrobat vs ??? stories or
>> > comments I'd like to read them.
>>
>> I use xpdf on my PPC laptop since gv renders some PDF documents
>> very badly and acrobat doesn't exist here.
>
> Begging to differ with you:
>
> duke:~# apt-cache policy acroread
> acroread:
> Installed: 5.07-woody0.0
> Candidate: 5.07-woody0.0
> Version Table:
> *** 5.07-woody0.0 0
> 500 http://marillat.free.fr testing/main Packages
> 500 http://marillat.free.fr unstable/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Not that it is as current as I'd like (v6) but it'll have to do. All the
> other renderers crap out on most things some things that are simple.
> Acroread doesn't play nice with FontConfig... so it is a bit choppy at
> times.
He says right there that has a PowerPC laptop, not an i386-based
system. Unless I'm mistaken you've provided a site that has i386
Debian software, NOT PPC.
Gary
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