On 04 Dec 2001 21:52:16 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > Hi Ben! > > > > > > Thanks for your reply! > > > > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > > > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown > > > > that > > > > they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that > > > > linux > > > > exemplifies. > > > > > > Would love to do that if xpdf worked as nice as as a *working* acroread. > > > > > > > in any case, xpdf works just fine. > > > > > > Don't think so. xpdf surely is not bad, but, as I already stated in my > > > previous mail, seems to have severe problems in rendering pages. > > > > Then try gv. It works better for me with pdf's than xpdf. It does not > > complain about the document using Type 3 fonts either, which usually is > > the error xpdf gives me. > > gv's a nice piece of software, but upstream has been dead for 4 (!) > years. Yea, but GhostScript does much of the heavy lifting, and it certainly isn't dead (at least the Aladdin version)... The biggest drag vs. AcroRead is lack of bookmark/hyperlink navigation. I've written a few LaTeX documents that make heavy use of cross references, etc... and the features really help navigating large documents... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
