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Re: Acrobat 7.0 for linux is out



On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:24:00PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
   > Toshiro wrote:
   > >>More on topic though, what's wrong with [xkg]pdf?
   > >>
   > >
   > >what's wrong?? let's see:
   > >
   > >xpdf:  awfully slow! Have you tried to resize a xpdf window? I have an 
   > >AMD64
   > >3200+ and it behaves like an old 286 when I resize a xpdf window.
   > >
   > For me, quite the contrary.  I find xpdf much more lightweight and agile
   > than acroread (at least 5.0 series, haven't experimented too much with
   > 7.0).  PDFs that would max the CPU for a couple of seconds (think PDF'd
   > powerpoints of 10s of MBs with lots of graphics) in acroread snap right
   > along in xpdf.

Jumping in late. One feature that as a TeX/LaTeX user I miss in acroread
is re-reading a pdf file. You have to close and reopen the same. Under
xpdf, 'r' does the job.

Regards,
   
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<WildTHing> ok guys .. so whens the next commit :PP
<taniwha> when they come to get me

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