> For quite a few years I've used (non-free) acroread to access these > files quite simply because the free readers (evince, xpdf, et al) just > aint good enough.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose, but Free Software is almost always capable of doing the necessary. > Acroread allows me to open files in multiple tabs which is fairly > important to me as I'm always needing to access baptism, marriages > and burials for a any particular parish at the same time. The > alternatives don't seem to be able to do this. I've just tried it with Okular doing the PDF work and Konqueror doing the tabbed interface. Works beautifully... > The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application The fundamental problem is that acroread is a non-Free application. That means you are beholden to what Adobe wants to give you. And they don't want to give you what you want. >> libc6 : Breaks: libc6:i386 (!= 2.17-2) but 2.17-1 is to be installed. >> libc6:i386 : Breaks: libc6 (!= 2.17-1) but 2.17-2 is installed. Once you get to libc dependency issues, it's usually time to give up. > I'm not sure how to get around this problem. I have a method, but you won't like it one bit. > any suggestions welcome (apart from suggestions I use a free > software package that is!) Any particular reason you're averse to a Free solution? Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
