sunlist wrote: > Hello Garrett, > > Thank you for the follow up. I knew about the other PDF readers out > in the wild, but I was not familiar with Evince. I did a brief RTFM > on Evince prior to posting the question, and saw that Solaris, along > with several other OS's were supported, hence the question. >
The feature I miss most with Evince (at least the version I last tried) is the ability to handle PDF forms. These are rapidly becoming more and more prevalent, in my experience. A good source of examples is www.irs.gov :-). A lot of my wife's online coursework involves PDF forms also. Other than that Evince is pretty good, but not up to acroread standards. Not yet, anyway. It's *much* better than the alternatives available for Solaris x86 (search, decent text select/copy, etc). -Bob > Jerry Kemp > > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> sunlist wrote: >>> I really don't understand this comment. Why would you have to upgrade >>> your whole desktop to try Evince? Could you not just download and >>> compile the application to see if you like it? >> >> The problem is dependencies upon newer versions of gnome, I think. I >> don't want to have to install a whole new version of gnome. >> >> -- Garrett >>> Jerry Kemp >>> >>> >>> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> >>> Stuff deleted above and below >>> >>> I've not tried evince yet, mostly >>>> because I don't want to have to upgrade my whole desktop for just this >>>> one application. >>>> >>>> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
