On 03/26/2012 11:21 AM, Matthias Rüster wrote: > 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...
epdfview is really nice. In looks and PDF functionality it does same work as evince, plus gtk+ is present on almost any "web guy" machine (for browsers, mail clients and stuff). However this could be problem for X-only guys, but I still like it more than mudpf - which requires 2 jpeg 2000 packages to be added, which we refused to add for so long. Also, mupdf is somewhat recent ... And it overwrites poppler's pdfinfo program. I'd like to see xpdf removed and replace it with epdfview. It's excelent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
