Hi, I am using qpdfview [*] since around 2 years and I haven't got many issues with it. It is a quick starting, small footprint, nice looking QT application. It supports tabbed viewing and it is based on the poppler library.
I believe it to be a considerable alternative. [*] http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/qpdfview?content=152086 2015-03-15 4:40 GMT+02:00, Ken Moffat <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 07:31:19PM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: >> "moaning"? Oh my, I fear the intent of my question was misinterpretted. >> >> I _have_ been using xpdf for at least a few years now and it has always >> seemed to work for me, as best I recall. The major complaint I would >> have with it is its UI is a little, can I call it, "clunky". If there >> were a nicer, easier to use, better looking, package I wouldn't mind >> replacing it. >> >> As best I could determine from all my looking around for Linux PDF >> viewers today, ePDFView seemed to be abandoned. I was concerned about >> installing an abandoned package, with nobody to attend to it--not that I >> haven't anyhow. Are you saying LFS is supporting, maintaining it now? > No, but it works as well as it ever did - ISTR that gentoo dropped > support for it when a simple fix reinstated how it had previously > worked. And one of our users posted a patch which he says makes it > work on some other PDFs. > > In BLFS we probably have several packages with no active upstream, > but they all seem to work as well as they ever did. > > ĸen > -- > Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. > hSometimes 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 > -- http://ergin.altintas.org http://yapay-zeka.org http://siberguc.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
