Unfortunately my experience is that acroread is the most reliable, particularly for commerically-produced pdf's like one finds on the web. It sure would be nice to have a non-Adobe option, given their recent behavior.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use acroread, and it works fine :-) > > apt-get install acroread > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > > > > Hi there! > > > > > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed > > > Acrobat Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. > > > > Acrobat Reader is actually the best of them by far. It renders legibly, > > doesn't crash that I've seen, and can navigate within the document. > > Unfortunately it is Not Free and also only available on Intel > > architecture. > > > > xpdf is pretty good but not as legible as Acrobat. > > > > ggv frequently fails to parse the PDF document. I'd actually say that 9 > > times out of 10 ggv will choke on a document I download from the Internet. > > > > HTH, > > jwb > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
