From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 17:49:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C0916A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:49:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.versatel.nl (smtp2.versatel.nl [62.58.50.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8055643D1F for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:49:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from f.staals@zonnet.nl) Received: (qmail 20735 invoked by uid 10); 26 Apr 2005 17:49:47 -0000 Received: (vexira-qq 20718-ECA8B92 invoked from network) 26 Apr 2005 19:49:47 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.2.5]) ([62.59.173.176]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp2.versatel.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for < >; 26 Apr 2005 17:49:47 -0000 Message-ID: <426E7F45.1060801@zonnet.nl> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:49:57 +0200 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050302) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey References: <426E76BD.2000705@wanadoo.fr> <426E7910.4050003@zonnet.nl> <426E7A57.3020603@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <426E7A57.3020603@chuckr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.30.0.2; VDF: 6.30.0.11; host: postbode02.zonnet.nl) cc: edward cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is the best PDF utility ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:49:49 -0000 Chuck Robey wrote: > Frank Staals wrote: > >> edward wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to >>> read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as "broken" >>> in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the >>> best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use >>> KDE. >>> Thanks for your insight on this. >>> Edward >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> What the 'best' is I wouldn't know, I ussually use xpfd works simple >> and effective, has no useless functions etc but works fine. So for >> what I do with it I would say xpdf is good, at least good enough for >> me. If you want to see it just use the command 'xpdf' its default >> supplied with Xorg If I'm correct > > > Xorg is not a package that includes other packages, such as some > operating systems. By that I mean, if you get Xorg as such by that > name, it's not going to include other tools (such as the excellent > xpdf). The only way you'g get xpdf with Xorg is if you got Xorg in a > package of something like KDE, where packaging in other tools IS very > likely. Hmm my mistake, I installed xpdf a long time ago and I didn't recall I had to install it manually but indeed it is a seperate package: frank@Riza$ pkg_info | grep xpdf xpdf-3.00_6 Display PDF files, and convert them to other formats But in any case xpdf works fine :) Frank Staals