On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 02:59:05PM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > As of 7.6 you're still recommending ePDFView. The upstream host is > gone, and apparently everything stopped in 2011. Have you compared it > to xpdf, which has an update in 2014?
Paul, have _you_ compared it ? But for starters, begin with mupdf which is very lightweight but reads most of those PDFs which epdfview does not, for the moment, render (on the downside, mupdf does not support hyperlinks to indexes). Over the years, xpdf has needed a lot of patches, mostly when vulnerabilities became apparent. Hint: moaning about what we have managed to keep usable does not go down well. A patch, or even a detailed explanation of why you think xpdf should be in the book, might be better received. If you want something more-capable, try evince or okular (for both, libspectre - which needs ghostscript - should allow them to render postscript too. For epdfview, there is a patch on -dev today which might help with some of the PDFs it does not presently render. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
