On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:18:44PM -1000, Ryo Furue wrote: > Hi > > > (An cleanest solution might be to drop xpdf altogether; the > > correct way to implement a PDF viewer these days is to build > > on top of poppler, such a okular, evince or epdfview. > > xpdf has been the only PDF viewer that is light enough > to be usable remotely(*). I wish it's maintained rather > than abandoned. > > Ryo > --------------- > (*)I log in to my workstation at my workplace from home > and invoke xpdf: For example, > > home$ ssh -X work.example.com > . . . log in to "work" . . . > work$ xpdf mydoc.pdf & > work$ > > okular and acroread are so slow that it's utterly > impossible to use remotely. > (I've never used evince or epdfview.)
It's available for adoption - #535261. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[email protected]> <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
