At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:27:38 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 11:02 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
You don't *really* need Adobe Reader under CentOS.
Depends on what your needs are.
There are *lots* of open source, third party PDF readers:
True. Sadly, they don't open and display ALL pdf files correctly.
Neither does Adobe Reader! I've envountered PDF files that have been simply malformed on some level. Otherwise it is a matter of how bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded non-standard font references (and this includes PDF files supposedly created by Adobe Distiller!). *I* find Adobe Reader's GUI horrible -- I just plain do not like it.
I have been advised that poppler has now been "fixed" so some of these issues will go away effective with the release of Fedora 13, but I have no idea when/how or if that will migrate into Centos. The Fedora folks apparently have no intention of backporting it to Fedora 12, so it doesn't look too promising for the time being.