[CentOS] evince on centos5.1

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 14 15:58:20 UTC 2008


On Friday 14 March 2008 15:14, Peter Farrell wrote:
> I see everyone's point about acrobat reader - but I run 50+ machines
> of Cent 4.5 and run remote desktops on all of them - I think the
> latest (8.*) version of Adobe Acrobat is miles and miles better than
> the bloated pig we used to have to use. I don't have issues with it
> remotely either. I find it quick and stable. (but I tend to only view
> text based reports) I haven't used evince on my setup but I have used
> kpdf remotely with no issues as well.

I have not felt the need for Acrobat for a long time.  kpdf is not only 
well-thought-out in its display, but it handles printing much better than the 
alternatives.  At least, that's my impression.  I've not found anything yet 
that it can't handle, which I can't say for either evince of xpdf.

Anne



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