Re: Pdf Font hardly legible
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:00:10 +0000 (UTC)
Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> wrote:
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> writes:
>
> > Of the open source PDF viewers, Okular (formerly Kpdf) is the best
> > overall . But Evince has a better export to PostScript and is more
> > lightweight. I don't mind using closed source apps as long as they're
> > free, so I use Adobe Reader a lot as well. There was a recent upgrade
> > of Adobe Reader to 9.4. Among other closed source tools I also have
> > Cabaret and Foxit Reader, all running natively on Linux x86_64.
>
> Lightweight is what I need. My machine is an "old" P3 1.2 Ghz with
> "only" 512 MB Ram. I tried Adobe Reader once, but it was *really* heavy;
> it was ridiculous: this machine suffices for everything I do, but
> reading a text 100 pages long with Adobe Reader made it feel sluggish.
>
> Pdf has its benefits, but I really don't understand why displaying text
> has to freak out my notebook more than basically anything else I am
> doing, even with xpdf :(
Look into mupdf - a really lightweight PDF reader.
Celejar
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