Re: [Hampshire] alternatives to acroread

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Author: Timothy Brocklehurst
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] alternatives to acroread
Yes, I'm back on the list (and living in Hampshire again!).

I was pretty impressed with Okular under kde4 and Debian SID. I don't know
Okular's history (could be a new version of KPDF) but it looked pretty good
to me.

It depends what you are trying to do. Are you editing PDFs? or reading PDFs?

Tim B.

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 12:04:15 Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/7/1 Stuart Sears <stuart@???>:
> > On 01/07/09 12:02, john lewis wrote:
> >> are there any other alternatives to acroread apart from xpdf and kpdf
> >
> > evince?
> >
> > it's the default GNOME pdf (and ps) reader
>
> AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH!
>
> Run away! Run and hide!
>
> Cue John telling us all how rubbish and bloated GNOME is :)
>
> Cheers,
> Al.