-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > On Wed 12 Mar 2003 03:02, Kevin J. Maciunas posted as excerpted below:
> If they were club, I assume that means a number of folks ask for them, which > brings up a question I've had for some time: Why? W/ MSWormOS, Acrobat was > necessary, because there was no native PS/PDF support. W/ gv, kghostview, > ggv, xpdf, etc, why on EARTH is a proprietary viewer necessary? At one > point, during the KDE 3.1 betas, kgv failed to work correctly, but ggv or > xpdf, etc, continued to work just fine. I just see no reason to worry about > acrobat. > When one of them has a working find function (try the ~1600-page wxWindows manual for example). kghostview does not seem to handle landscape well (xpdf does it ok). Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+b3AkrJK6UGDSBKcRAomrAJ9d8IjRir5cmSu4cSzpo5ACLOS7OACeP/XA BekgiVjy3XWj2ceGnC0ndqE= =ICK+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
