[CentOS] evince on centos5.1

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Thu Mar 13 20:35:45 UTC 2008


Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Geis 
> <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> > is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's?
> >  Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails
> >  it KILLS my X11 session.
> >
> >  If I am at my desktop it works fine.
> >
> >  xpdf used to work fine on 4.X - but it was removed in 5.X.
> >
> >  Is there an alternative?
> >
> 
> Not really. You could try and download the acroread from adobe.

Or you could try KPDF from kdegraphics. I would only bother though
if you had the KDE libs already installed otherwise it's a lot of
extra baggage for a PDF viewer.

If you can use the EPEL repo on your system there is xpdf there.

-Ross

______________________________________________________________________
This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by
the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged
and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient
of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination,
distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto,
is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error,
please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the
original and any copy or printout thereof.




More information about the CentOS mailing list