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ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

pdf reader?

anyone got a suggestion on something to read pdfs on 64bit arch. i have something right now, but it seems to lack in the ui, i don`t find it friendly to use at all

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: pdf reader?

epdfview, gv, evince, xpdf, ...

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timetrap

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From: Here and There

Registered: 2008-06-05

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Re: pdf reader?

I vote for xpdf.

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: pdf reader?

My recommendations:
Evince for gnome
KPDF for KDE3.5
Epdfview for WM's

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: pdf reader?

Evince here and I'm using E17.

Sjoden

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From: WA

Registered: 2007-08-16

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Re: pdf reader?

KPDF, I'm in openbox.

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Berticus

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

Re: pdf reader?

The thing with xpdf is it honors DRM. So some pdf's may not be able to copy, print or convert. There are patches that make xpdf not honor them, but I'm not sure if they're included with anything here or if you have to install the patches yourself.

Last time I read a comparison of pdf viewers from linux.com, KPDF came out on top for having the most functions. Okular might have took its place now though. Although it's feature rich, it renders quite quickly. Of course not quite as quickly as xpdf.

Haven't heard of epdfview. May have to check that out.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: pdf reader?

Acroread in 32bit chroot.  If you read and work with a lot of pdfs there is no real alternative -- font rendering on lcd screens in acroread is simply superior to anything else out there.  If font rendering is not an issue for you then evince seems to be developed most dynamically.

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: pdf reader?

i highly recommend kpdf (and kghosrview and kdvi). the search function is very very good.

ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

Re: pdf reader?

i tried searching the arch 64 section for pdf, and found 7-8 threads, none even relevant. maybe pdf was a bad keyword?

thanks for the suggestions though guys.

im really not concerned about font rendering and the fancy jazz. i jsut need something that i can easily scroll through pages, with the scroll wheel on my mouse, not by clicking an arrow button at the side, and a zoom option that goes by % would be nice. DRM is not a worry for me either.

it jsut bugs me the few times here and there i try to download a manual, like the one for my e-manage for example. im on dialup, so i spent 2 hours downloading it, and then it takes me just as long to scroll through trying to find what i need

kpdf looks like it will do the job perfect for me

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: pdf reader?

Is there anything wrong with the bin32-acroread package from AUR? I've not tried it personally, but someone above suggested using a chroot environment. I've used the multi-lib packages with nspluginwrapper and Flash 10 without issues. It works better and is more stable than swfdec or gnash ever were. So, I suppose my question is why not use the bin32 packages for things like this?

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: pdf reader?

Is there anything wrong with the bin32-acroread package from AUR? I've not tried it personally, but someone above suggested using a chroot environment. I've used the multi-lib packages with nspluginwrapper and Flash 10 without issues. It works better and is more stable than swfdec or gnash ever were. So, I suppose my question is why not use the bin32 packages for things like this?

Chroot/bin32 shouldn't really matter -- I just never used the bin32 version, I wasn't even sure if there was one, that's all.