At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:27:38 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/