Mike, On Friday 25 February 2005 13:58, Mike wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:07:54 -0500, Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> wrote:
On Friday 25 February 2005 3:28 pm, Mike wrote:
Does anyone know of a KDE alternative to adobe acrobat PDF viewer? It looks so hanus running on my KDE desktop, and for some reason doesn't see my printer when I go to print PDF documents.
xpdf, KWrite are two that read PDFs. And I forgot, KPdf, and GNOME PDF Viewer.
Thanks all for the prompt responses... I tried ghostview, but that didn't seem to do a great job (IIRC it displayed the first page, but couldn't get it to move to the next...) I'll give the rest a try tonight..
My experience has been is that the best "coverage" is obtained by the Adobe reader, not too surprisingly. (By that I mean it properly handles more PDF files than the other viewers.) On the other hand, on one or two occasions when I tried to print a document it went into a tailspin consuming ever more memory, pushing everything else out of memory and bringing my system to its knees (*). This has never happened with any of its native Linux counterparts. It has lots of other problems, but it's still the viewer I use by default. (*) The one weakness I've experienced more than any other on my SuSE Linux system is its vulnerability to a rogue process consuming so much memory that everything else gets swapped out and it becomes impossible to even kill the errant process. Randall Schulz