On 10/12/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to propose that BLFS remove the GNOME GPdf and GGV packages > and replace them with the GNOME evince package. Evince is a packages aimed > to replace individual document viewing packages currently used by GNOME. > Evince can display PDF, PostScript, DjVu, DVI and TIFF files (perhaps > others as well). Here is a link to Evince's home page. > http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
I agree. I just built this with GNOME 2.12 and it works very nicely. Excellent, fast rendering for a whole slew of file types. > 3. Evince is significantly faster rendering PDF files than was GPdf. > To me, Evince is as fast, or faster than XPdf rendering files. Evince > is not based on XPdf code, but on the fork of XPdf, the poppler package > at http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ Agreed. Also, with t1lib from the XPdf site you get very nice font rendering as well for Type 1 fonts. > 6. Evince seems to be stable. I used it quite a bit to view many types > of documents, including DVI (requires a TeX installation) and DjVu files. > I could not see any problems or issues. Back at 0.3.x I used to get some crashes, but it works well now. I really like this application since it essentially replaces separate pdf, ps, dvi and some image viewers. Rendering seems on par with the other viewers of these types. Plus, GTK2 is easy on the eyes. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
