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I use foxit reader under windows, and It's smaller and faster than adobe acrobat reader. I dont want to use adobe acrobat reader under archlinux too, could anyone suggest some good clone programs?
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Well, what about foxit reader: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23344
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You also have evince for gnome, epdfview for pure gtk and I can't remember the KDE one.
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the programmers of those programs might be quite offended by you guys calling their work an 'acrobat reader clone', when the only thing that they have in common is to comply with pdf specifications
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In KDE I use okular in the kdegraphics package.
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Well, nobody mentioned xpdf
But I would suggest okular or evince...
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Okular is nice and supports many file formats
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i don't have gnome or kde, i've only e17 (somebody told me that it's good for slow computers)
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Well, what about foxit reader: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23344
i've read in a forum that the linux version is slow and not good ported in compare to the windows version, is it true?
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Ashren wrote:Well, what about foxit reader: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23344
i've read in a forum that the linux version is slow and not good ported in compare to the windows version, is it true?
It seemed to work fine and just as fast when I used it some months ago.
Now I'm using epdfview.
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tnx
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try evince-gtk: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24416
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oKular is good, but I still use Acrobat Reader, I actually prefer it :S
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I used xpdf under Gentoo and evince with Ubuntu, but after abandoning GNOME I went searching for something that wasn't too dependent on GNOME libs... evince isn't actually too bad in that department, but it needs gnome-keyring. Anyway, I picked epdfview and it has given me no trouble at all.
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Another vote for evince-gtk, the dependency on gnome stuff is minimal.
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I used to use Okular under KDE and Foxit under Windows, but have recently discovered that the latest adobe acrobat has a new font antialiasing which makes pdf fonts much more readable in lcds.
So now I'm always using acrobat. A sample of the difference, acrobat on the left vs okular on the right:
(if you care to look at this, do so at full size!)
Last edited by fede (2009-08-29 16:40:16)
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I use evince-gtk as well. After you install it you can remove the packages texlive-bin, intltool, and gnome-doc-utils because they are only needed during the build process.
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Nobody ever mentioned apvlv?
Small, lightweight, and completely VI-like keyboard controlled (if you want to).
I use acroread as fallback only, even gave up on my beloved xpdf.
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what's the difference between evince and evince-gtk?
I'm using epdfview because it's "like evince but more lightweight and no dep on gconf" but it's slow :s or is this a problem with other programs as well? (takes a few seconds to show the page in an ugly way, then it can take up to 10 seconds or so to render the detailed view, especially if you've zoomed)
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what's the difference between evince and evince-gtk?
I'm using epdfview because it's "like evince but more lightweight and no dep on gconf" but it's slow :s or is this a problem with other programs as well? (takes a few seconds to show the page in an ugly way, then it can take up to 10 seconds or so to render the detailed view, especially if you've zoomed)
evince-gtk is evince without a dependency on gnome-keyring -> gconf -> ...
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I used to use Okular under KDE and Foxit under Windows, but have recently discovered that the latest adobe acrobat has a new font antialiasing which makes pdf fonts much more readable in lcds.
So now I'm always using acrobat. A sample of the difference, acrobat on the left vs okular on the right:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2356/a … lar.th.png
(if you care to look at this, do so at full size!)
Well, maybe it looks a little better in Acrobat Reader, but Okular is available for x86_64 platforms, and AFAIK the first one still isn't. Anyone using KPDF?
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