On Mon, 13 May 2013 19:59:33 +0100
Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:
> Can I ask, how long since you last tried Evince? I only ask as I used
> to feel the same but more recently, I can't complain how it renders
> PDF. Maybe it has improved a lot recently and worth looking at again.
I tried it today and it doesn't do tabs.
> For a tabbed viewer, there is qpdfview. I have not used it myself,
> but it uses the same libs as evince to render PDF's, so should do
> just as well. Maybe worth a try if Acroread dies for good.
qpdfview is a new one to me, I guess because I haven't needed to look
for an alternative to acroread. I'll have a look
Having installed it and open just three pdf files I don't think it will
be good enough for the size of files I have to access. It seems to have
given up on the Berkshire Baptisms file which runs to over 47,000 pages
and even worse it has deleted acroread so I'm really stuffed.
I had tried to install AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i386linux_enu.deb with dpkg -i
but this had failed with dependency problems, Installing qpdfview
resultes in
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> adobereader-enu:i386 : Depends: libgtk2.0-0:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is
> not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these
> dependencies:
> Remove the following packages:
1) adobereader-enu:i386
I allowed this thinking it was only going to remove the partially
installed package I'd tried to install with dpkg but it seems to have
done more than that.
> Finally, could the windows version of acroread work in Wine?
No idea, most things I have tried to run under wine haven't been
supported but I haven't tried to use wine for several years at least so
maybe it would work.
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