On 2013-05-13 12:11, john lewis wrote:
The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application and Debian Sid
seems to be having problems with 32 bit libs at the moment with the
result that I cannot re-install acroread from the Debian multimedia
site. Nor can I install the deb which can be
On Mon, 13 May 2013 12:26:51 +0100
Paul Freeman p...@noc4.net wrote:
On 2013-05-13 12:11, john lewis wrote:
The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application and Debian Sid
seems to be having problems with 32 bit libs at the moment with the
result that I cannot re-install acroread
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
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 17:39 +0100, Vic wrote:
Any particular reason you're averse to a Free solution?
I don't believe for one minute that John is averse to a free solution.
I think it's justthat, as he said in the first paragraph, they ain't
good enough
I agree with him, despite acroread being
Your example Okular is good, but try zooming in to read small print or
drawing details on a scalable document or similar and you'll find it
pixelated where acroread renders cleanly.
Hmmm. Not seen that yet. Mine seems to zoom in rather nicely...
Vic.
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On 13 May 2013 12:11, john lewis zen57...@zen.co.uk wrote:
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.
Hi John,
Can I ask, how long since you last tried Evince? I only ask as I
On 13/05/13 19:59, Philip Stubbs wrote:
Can I ask, how long since you last tried Evince? I only ask as I used
to feel the same but more recently, I can't complain how it renders
PDF. Maybe it has improved a lot recently and worth looking at again.
For a tabbed viewer, there is qpdfview. I
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:11:17PM +0100, john lewis wrote:
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.
I hear that! I have recently had to install Acrobat on a machine because
On Mon, 13 May 2013 17:04:28 +0100
Peter B. pet...@gmail.com wrote:
Do foxit pdf or nitro pdf do anything for Linux? Maybe try a
different company like that.
it looks like both are windows only but thanks for the suggestion, I
hadn't heard of either before.
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John Lewis
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