Jeff Wisman wrote:
Woah, GPDF sucks and you want Adobe? I'm really surprised to hear
that. For us, Adobe Acrobat barely functions. We are using Acrobat
Reader 5 for Solaris Sparc. It doesn't embed itself in the web
browser properly most of the time. It takes much longer to load. It
uses its own mysterious printing mechanisms, which I haven't taken the
time to figure out yet. And Gpdf just works. Hmm...
Fair enough. I have never liked acroread as a plugin - I
prefer it as a "helper" in a separate window, because
I find the back/forward interaction with the browser to
be unintuitive and clumsy. So I haven't tried this. I
did an analysis of the various PDF viewer
alternatives for Sun (a couple of months ago), and
here are my findings (ranked roughly in order of my
preference):
My objections to gpdf/pdflaunch:
- No text select/copy capability
- No search capability
- Very slow
My objections to ggv:
- No text select/copy capability
- No search capability
My objection to xpdf:
- Text select capability is really lame.
It's more like a drawing object select, where
you draw a rectangle (that can't cross a page
boundary!) and it selects what's in the rectangle,
without regard for text flows.
My objection to acroread 4.0 (the latest available for x86):
- Some recently-produced docs that use fancy (and IMO
annoying) features like translucency will crash acroread.
I hardly ever encounter these.
I've heard good things about evince but couldn't investigate
it since I was tied to Solaris 10 FCS. Blastwave is working
on testing a version for release but it pulls in a *ton* of
Gnome dependencies.
For x86 your options are pretty limited at present I'm afraid.
We're working on it.
-Bob
Jeff
Bob Doolittle wrote:
Troy Knabe wrote:
I have SRSS running on x4100's, and love the performance. But gpf
sucks. Is there anyone putting pressure on Adobe to release an x86
version? Is there another solution out there that I am missing?
This is no doubt a problem.
There is a 4.0 version of acroread on Adobe's FTP site
for Solaris x86, I think this one is correct:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/sunx86-ar-40.tar.gz
I use with with 95% success, Your Milage May Vary.
If Adobe digs in their heels for porting their
latest to Solaris x86, 'evince' may be your best
hope, but it has a lot of dependencies on the
latest/greatest Gnome libraries. I believe it is
planned to be included with the Solaris Nevada JDS
release.
Some people like xpdf as the best available
option. Personally all I can say is "There's no
accounting for taste" ;-). If you run into
problems with Acroread 4.0, and can't use evince,
this is probably your best option.
-Bob
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