On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:08:44PM -0600, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

Fred:

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Adobe doesn't seem to have acroread for x86_64 linux, or at least I don't see it anywhere. Anybody know otherwise?

They produce a Linux RPM. It's not 64 bit, but it will work and that is all you can get from them at the moment.

But to use that means I'd have to install a ton of 32-bit runtime support.

Xpdf works well enough for me that I don't need another tool.

yeah, that's probably true. I'm finding evince to be better than the one on Centos 5, too.

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:37:36AM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:

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Adobe doesn't seem to have acroread for x86_64 linux, or at least I don't see it anywhere.

Ii suggest you download and use Firefox 19, which includes its own internal pdf reader (pdf.js), written in Javascript, no plugins to load!, just File-Open select pdf file and off you go. Same with pdf links on web pages, just clicks and the browser loads the pdf in its internal reader.

Yup, just installed 6.3 and that's one thing I haven't gotten around to yet (I had to compile my own for Centos 5.x).

With regard to reading PDFs on 64 bit *nix, I use Google Chrome. It handle PDFs without a plugin. One of the things I like about Acrobat Reader is the Advanced search option which shows found text strings in context. Chrome doesn't do that, but it does show where they are found in the slider controlling the page.

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:50 AM, James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.comwrote:

Fernando Cassia wrote:

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Ii suggest you download and use Firefox 19, which includes its own internal pdf reader (pdf.js), written in Javascript, no plugins to load!, just File-Open select pdf file and off you go. Same with pdf links on web pages, just clicks and the browser loads the pdf in its internal reader.

The Mozilla pdf.js extension works with Firefox ESR 17 (and 10) - you can download it from:

http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/

You will have to disable any other PDF plug-in/extension you may have

James Pearson

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On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 12:50:50PM +0000, James Pearson wrote:

Fernando Cassia wrote:

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Ii suggest you download and use Firefox 19, which includes its own internal pdf reader (pdf.js), written in Javascript, no plugins to load!, just File-Open select pdf file and off you go. Same with pdf links on web pages, just clicks and the browser loads the pdf in its internal reader.

The Mozilla pdf.js extension works with Firefox ESR 17 (and 10) - you can download it from:

http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/

You will have to disable any other PDF plug-in/extension you may have

yup, thanks. there are no others.

pdfjs works pretty well, but oddly, some PDF files it won't display in the browser, I have to download them then browse under the file menu to the file then it displays it just fine.