On 12/26/10 15:12, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:46:36 -0500 > David B Teague <davidbtea...@comporium.net> wrote: > > Hello David, > >> Foxit Reader is WINDOWS ONLY, a fact that I did not know > Look at; > > <http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/index.php> > > More than Windows d/l's there. > >> until I looked on their web site. (This annoys me greatly, >> as I prefer to use tools that work on Linux and Windows.) > I did try Foxit, and it loads very fast on my machine. Sadly, it > wouldn't print anything here (an absolute must, AFAIAC) I didn't have > time to examine why, but there was a complaint about 64 bit drivers on > my (64 bit) machine. An issue for another day, perhaps. > >> I have not found another reader that works on both Linux and >> Windows and has nearly the useful features of the PDF >> readers from Adobe and Foxit. > Okular (KDE), evince and xpdf are obvious candidates. IIRC, evince will > now allow the filling in of forms, much as Adobe's reader does. Of > course, you may well have tried all of those and others besides. > >> Thanks for your reasoning about your answer. > NP. Everybody has different technical abilities, and without clues as > to what those abilities might be, "baby steps" (starting close to > familiar ground) are generally better, I find. It soon becomes obvious > whether it's possible to take bigger leaps. > I do not have the earlier parts of this thread, so I do not know why people are looking for something other than Adobe Reader for Windows and Linux. Is there a problem with your system dealing with Adobe Reader? It is the defacto default option.
[ actually the earlier parts of the thread are not in my users@openoffice.org folder, so I cannot read those posts ] I know that Adobe Reader shows up in the repositories for Ubuntu 10.10 and there are a number of other document viewers in Linux that can read PDF files. I use the default Document Viewer for my PDF reading. Then I use CUPS PDF printing options to create PDF files in Ubuntu/Linux and doPDF to create PDF files in Windows. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
