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.)
Try epdfview, then. xpdf is a dead end.
Cheers,
Moritz
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