On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote: > On Jun 19, 2014 10:12 PM, "Bob Hepple" <bob.hepple at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > <m.roth at ...> writes: > > > > > > > > Dan Hyatt wrote: > > > > Any suggestions for a good lightweight pdf reader for my centos > servers? > > > > > > > evince, that I think is installed by default? > +1 for evince > > > > > > Oh, and here's a neat one that's *not* a lightweight reader, that my > > > manager introduced me to last year: xournal. It lets you *edit* .pdfs, > Awesome! Thanks for sharing this one, Mark. > > > including the ones that don't intend for you to edit them. It was > *really* > > > nice to have that when we did our (US) state taxes - the federal forms > are > > > editable, but not the state, except I could with xournal. > > > > > > mark > > > > > > > Nice find - but it lacks a 'Find' function unless I'm going blind. > You might be going the slightest bit blind... :-D On my version of evince there's a magnifying glass in the top right (plus Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut works). > > > > okular is another KDE one that I like - rpm is 703186 bytes > > > > epdview is another - rpm is 416642 bytes > > > > > > Bob > > I don't think that the rpm size has much to do with a lightweight process. > Shared libs, bad programming, ... can all easily cause a small rpm to cause > more disk space, memory and CPU usage than a larger one. > > If I have to do something remotely or just want a quick glance at > something, I still use xpdf. Old interface but just like vi, once you got Someone mentioned a reason or another why to switch away from xpdf. I seem to think it was that development was slow or nearly non-existent, but the recent release is from May 2014 [0]. Eh, I'm probably thinking of something else... [0] http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //