> 2. What are some other alternative PDF reader programs > available that have > similar capabilities as Adobe Reader, but would be faster > to render? Ex: We > need to be able to view thumbnails, and also to be able to > read annotations.
Evince Document Viewer (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince), which I think comes standard with the Gnome desktop on most distributions, is a lot faster than Adobe Reader 8. It has the ability to display thumbnails, bookmarks, etc. Just select "View, Side Pane", or hit F9. It does a decent job with most aspects of viewing PDF's. I use it as my primary PDF viewer, but do occasionally use Adobe Reader 8 to print documents when I need some of the more advanced printing features Adobe offers that Evince doesn't. Hope this helps. --- On Mon, 12/15/08, M Rathburn <stretc...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: M Rathburn <stretc...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Speedup Adobe Reader 8 > To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 9:04 AM > Server is Edubuntu 8.10 32bit > Clients are Diskless Workstations PXE 1422's > > We're having a slight problem with Adobe Reader > 8.whatever being somewhat > slow on our thin clients. The screen updates are > what's slow - the file is > already downloaded completely and displayed. We're > running on a > big-phat-juicy server, so the problem isn't going to be > in lack of > processing power there. So I'm wondering what some > workarounds or other > options there are. > > 1. If we ran Adobe Reader as a local app, would that help > or hinder? Does > anyone have experience with that? and if so, what are the > configuration > steps necessary to make that happen? > > 2. What are some other alternative PDF reader programs > available that have > similar capabilities as Adobe Reader, but would be faster > to render? Ex: We > need to be able to view thumbnails, and also to be able to > read annotations. > > Thanks. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
