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Re: acroread and iceweasel



On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 09:33 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 02:33:53 +0000
> #ZHAO LINA# <ZHAO0139@e.ntu.edu.sg> wrote:
> 
> Hello #ZHAO,
> 
> > I just installed the xpdf, obviously it did not work for me, probably
> > some plugins were lack or do I need to uninstall the acroread after
> > the installation of xpdf.
> 
> xpdf and acroread should happily co-exist.  Obviously, the
> mozilla-acroread plugin won't call xpdf.
> 
I would add a slight word of caution.  As much as I am not a fan of
acroread at all (such as its slow performance and its hard coded
insistence on saving all files with 600 permissions), there are some pdf
files which are not handled properly by pdf readers other than acroread
- John


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