Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:49:57 +0200 From: Frank Staals <f.staals@zonnet.nl> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is the best PDF utility ? Message-ID: <426E7F45.1060801@zonnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <426E7A57.3020603@chuckr.org> References: <426E76BD.2000705@wanadoo.fr> <426E7910.4050003@zonnet.nl> <426E7A57.3020603@chuckr.org>
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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
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