On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Jay Daniels wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:29:32PM +1000, Daniel Stonier wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:06:04 +0100 (BST), K.M.Zammi Kahan > > <ezammi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >3. Some missing plug-ins like (Flash, JRE etc). Today readers like > > >acobat reader & Chm reader (xchm) etc also playing a big role. > > > > 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. > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel. > > Because for some reason (in the past) x based pdf viewers are slow and > crash on many pdf documents. acroread is not the worlds fastest pdf viewer in my experience... it does load fast enough on my althon 64 that I don't have to twiddle my thumbs unlike in previous years. > I have never had any trouble with acrobat for linux except for it's > old X style window placement covering up the gnome-panel. it's 1990 style statically linked motif library is getting a little old frankly. since it's actually acrobat 4 there are plently of pdf's out there that it can't read either. > > jay > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
