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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

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