On Wednesday 09 May 2018 21:58:12 Ben Finney wrote: > Long Wind <longwi...@yahoo.com> writes: > > but my acrobat reader in stretch is painfully slow in displaying > > them > > Acrobat Reader is non-free software, which means the GNU+Linux > community cannot do anything to improve that software. > > What's more, even Adobe is no longer supporting that program on > GNU+Linux <URL:https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2273757>. So whatever > problems it has, will likely remain and get worse over time. > > So I am not too surprised that it performs badly :-) > > > which program can you recommend? Thanks! > > The catalogue at <URL:https://pdfreaders.org/> can be useful. > > The Evince viewer <URL:https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince> is clean > and nice to use, and in the GNOME desktop environment, Evince is the > default Document Viewer program for PDF and many other formats. > There are some pdf's that evince can't print, but okular hasn't failed me, yet.
> You can start with that; I have never needed anything else for PDF > since I started using Evince :-) -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
