On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:54:36 luigi scarso wrote: > > That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of > > pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf > > nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time > > around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different. > > Not dozen, only 2~3 but code independent .My choices are > 1) xpdf (same codebase of luatex) > 2)acroread (the most important viewer for pdf ) > 3) ghostscript (also used by context ) > They are all used / important for TeX community and printing house.
I understood that xpdf has been replaced by poppler, a rewritten PDF rendering library (based originally on xpdf, however I am no authority). This library is the motor behind the viewers evince (gnome) and okular (kde). If this is different from the codebase used by luatex, should luatex eventually be migrated to popplar? Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
