> > 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.
I didn't ask a well-framed question, but that's what I was asking about. Is it a "good" alternative? xpdf needs the motif/lesstif toolkit, and that's why the UI is a bit clunky. I'd like to get something that fits with the GTK-2 TK, I think. > > In BLFS we probably have several packages with no active upstream, > > but they all seem to work as well as they ever did. Sure. As I wrote, I also use some. (I think you'd be hard pressed to find the package manager I use on the web these days. I've adopted it, added some mods of my own--it's only a 1,097 line bash script. ;-) Of course, that's part of WHY I like it--it is only a bash script--I could bash it about a little.) But AFAIK it is possible to create malicious PDF files. Acrobat has had several security updates ISTR. So I thought having an upstream for a PDF viewer was a good thing to want. > For me, QT is a huge dependency. I happen to build qt-4 towards the > end of my normal desktop builds, and that lets me build qupzilla (as > a backup browser) and vlc. I might give qpdfview a try on some of my > systems, but I don't think the dependencies will play well with > Paul's needs. Indeed. I like lightweight systems, meaning one toolkit if I can. With LXDE development going to QT, I think I'll probable install XFCE this time--for the once every couple months I actually do run a desktop environment. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Send your email first class -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
