Klaasjan Brand wrote:
The following are facts, not criticisms. I was pleased to
see how easily Gnome was able to install my printer, and
set up the queue.
First, GNOME PDF Viewer 2.8.2 cannot display that PDF. All
A few things:
Acrobat 5 for Linux is a bit buggy. It may not always work exactly
like you want. Acrobat 7 is a lot better regarding stability, features
etc. It also eats a lot more memory.
Thanks for that info. I'll go look for Acrobat 7, and install. If it
eats too much memory, I can always fall back. Something that works,
even if it causes lots of paging to virtual, is better than something
which doesn't work :-)
The FC2 distribution is since the release of FC4 officially
unmaintained. Unless you've got a very good reason to stick with FC2
it's better to upgrade to FC4.
I am aware of that, and have switched to Legacy. Thanks for the info.
I have what seem like good reasons to me not to switch, yet. :)
FC4 comes with the new PDF viewer "Evince" which is lean, reads a lot
more PDF's than Gnome PDF ever would and supports printing in a sane
way.
As a last request: checklists of bugs or missing features are
valuable. In fact, they are so valuable you don't just want to send
them to some mailing list, but also enter them into the Red Hat or
Gnome bugzilla systems. It really increases the odds of bugs being
fixed for the next release ;)
Since I am a software developer myself, I recognize the value.
I am, however, a newbie to FC (been using *NIX systems for
about 15 years, but not FC, and not administering). If you know
where/how I could report these, and can offer advice on which ones
are useful (for example, if the GNOME PDF Viewer is retired, then
there is no point in filing reports against it), then I'd be glad
to do whatever will help.
Mike
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