On 03/26/12 11:03, Nathan Coulson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Matthias Rüster<[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 03/26/12 10:00, Thomas de Roo wrote: >>> On 03/26/12 09:22, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: >>>> We should consider removing the following packages from BLFS: >>>> >>>> -Qpopper: There was a discussion back in nov. 2010 and people seemed to >>>> agree that it should be removed. This never happened, though. >>>> >>>> -Pilot-link: Last release in may 2009. Are people still using Palm Pilots? >>>> >>>> -Xpdf: It seems poppler provides the same functionality and additionally >>>> includes a shared library. >>>> >>>> Comments/objections? >>>> >>>> -Ragnar- >>>> >>>> >>> I wouldn't remove Xpdf. Although the page needs to be updated, Xpdf >>> offers a PDF-viewer, poppler doesn't. I use Xpdf, because I don't have >>> all the Gnome or KDE-stuff om my machine, needed for the other PDF-viewers. >>> >>> Groet, >>> Thomas >> >> Hi, >> >> there is the simple pdf viewer mupdf which could be a good alternative >> to Xpdf: >> >> http://www.mupdf.com >> >> Download: >> http://mupdf.googlecode.com/files/mupdf-0.9-source.tar.gz >> >> You will need freetype2, jbig2dec, libjpeg, openjpeg, and zlib. >> Or unzip the thirdparty package: >> >> http://mupdf.googlecode.com/files/mupdf-thirdparty.zip >> >> May give it a try ;) >> Perhaps this viewer is worth to add it to the book... >> >> Personally I belive Xpdf is one of the worst pdf viewer in terms of >> zooming and anti-aliasing. >> >> MR >> -- > > How does it compare to epdfview? Links up to poppler, and appears to > get the job done. (I've actually abandoned xpdf a while back for this > package). > >
only advantage I have in mind: mupdf and xpdf does not need gtk But I just wanted to let you know that there is a pdf viewer similar to Xpdf... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
