--- Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Preston Crawford wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 06:25, Chris Adams wrote: > > > Once upon a time, Daniel Stonier > <snorri_dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > > Just curious, why do so many users go and get > acrobat reader? > > > > I've always just used ghostview/kghostview for > pdf files without a problem. > > > > > > There is no other PDF plugin AFAIK. Also, > ghostview and xpdf don't > > > support all PDF files (no form fill-in, some > things don't render right, > > > etc.), and acroread is usually much faster at > rendering. > > > > So you download the PDF and then open it. > > actually if you have mozilla plugger installed it > can swallow xpdf in the > browser without trouble... now there are certain > pdfs you can't open with > xpdf, but that's because acrobat is neither open nor > a standard. Adobe created the Acrobat format. So the standard is whatever Adobe decides it is. > joelja > > > Preston > > > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting > joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 > C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ===== -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never memorize what you can look up." -Albert Einstein
