Hi,
I'm looking for a usable PDF viewer with CentOS 4.3. On my previous install (Slack running XFCE with a handful of GNOME libs), I used Evince, which is just great. Looks like this is an Achilles' heel in CentOS, as I tested three available PDF viewers (ggv, gsview, acroread) with various PDF documents downloaded from the internet (which all display perfectly with Evince): either the result is just ugly, like Lego for the very young. Or the document can't be opened at all and produces an error. Which is annoying, as I have to install this in a production environment in about two weeks.
Any suggestions?
Niki Kovacs
I'm looking for a usable PDF viewer with CentOS 4.3. On my previous install (Slack running XFCE with a handful of GNOME libs), I used Evince, which is just great. Looks like this is an Achilles' heel in CentOS, as I tested three available PDF viewers (ggv, gsview, acroread) with various PDF documents downloaded from the internet (which all display perfectly with Evince): either the result is just ugly, like Lego for the very young. Or the document can't be opened at all and produces an error. Which is annoying, as I have to install this in a production environment in about two weeks.
I find acroread to be quite usable, however before Adobe released acroread 7, I was using xpdf which comes with CentOS.
Barry
Selon Barry Brimer barry.brimer@bigfoot.com:
I find acroread to be quite usable, however before Adobe released acroread 7, I was using xpdf which comes with CentOS.
Does acroread use fonts under /usr/share/fonts? I just installed some TTF fonts (cannibalized c:\windows\fonts directory) under /usr/share/fonts, ran fc-cache -f -v, and suddenly, my PDF's all look nice:oD Looks like that was the problem.
Niki
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On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:13:41 +0200 Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Selon Barry Brimer barry.brimer@bigfoot.com:
I find acroread to be quite usable, however before Adobe released acroread 7, I was using xpdf which comes with CentOS.
Does acroread use fonts under /usr/share/fonts? I just installed some TTF fonts (cannibalized c:\windows\fonts directory) under /usr/share/fonts, ran fc-cache -f -v, and suddenly, my PDF's all look nice:oD Looks like that was the problem.
one other thing (which i learned at a workshop) is that, although acroread is closed-source software (which i personally prefer not to use when not needed), acroread will give you the least problems with printing
this is due to the lack of development for certain pdf-formats in all the other open-source alternatives
one more thing is that acroread 7.x tries "to call home" in some unreadable format, if you don't like this the easiest solution is to disable the plugins (or don't install them)
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