[luau] Adobe Reader
Ray Strode
halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Mar 29 16:56:59 PST 2002
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>
>The Adobe reader for Linux download from Adobe seems to be completely
>broken for me.
>
I've never had any problems with it.
>That's okay because the built in PDF readers in Linux
>can do the job *most* of the time.
>
yup.
>xpdf is the old one, and KGhostView is the reader in KDE.
>
xpdf is actually really, good but has an oldish looking interface.
others are gv
(ghostview) and ggv (Gnome ghostview, sometimes callec gnome-gv).
>I tend to like KGhostView much more than xpdf. Unfortunately both do not work
>100% especially with newer PDF's generated by the latest Adobe Acrobat.
>
xpdf uses it's own pdf reading code, while all the others use ghostview
under the
hood. In my exprience xpdf is the best.
>I've managed to install the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows in
>CodeWeavers CrossOver plugin, along with a few other Windows
>applications that I use regularly. That may be the only option for most
>people.
>
I don't see why. Adobe Acrobat for linux works fine.
--Ray
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