From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 23:11:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00C116A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:11:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp8.wanadoo.fr (smtp8.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEEF43D4C for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:11:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kouye@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0801.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id EADDB180009D for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:11:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (ASte-Genev-Bois-151-1-20-66.w83-114.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.114.18.66]) by mwinf0801.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B20131800094 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:11:28 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20050426231128729.B20131800094@mwinf0801.wanadoo.fr Message-ID: <426ECA6A.5060208@wanadoo.fr> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:10:34 +0200 From: edward User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050421) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <426E76BD.2000705@wanadoo.fr> <200504261630230931.148D60B2@mail.intradyn.com> In-Reply-To: <200504261630230931.148D60B2@mail.intradyn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Which is the best PDF utility ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:11:30 -0000 Thanks for the suggestion Henry. I'll try it straight away. To all the others who kindly answered my question and suggested xpdf, the utility works well. No thumbnails, though. And something slightly more KDE-ish would be cool. But it definitely showed me which way to go. Thanks again gang. Edward Henry Miller wrote: > > On 4/26/2005 at 19:13 edward wrote: > > >>Hi all, >>Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to > > read > >>PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as "broken" in the >>notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best >>alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. >>Thanks for your insight on this. >>Edward > > > kpdf, which is based on xpdf (other recommended xpdf) is a part of KDE, > and thus integrates well with the rest of your KDE environment. I like > it. The Adobe reader would be better if it wasn't such a pain to > install and use. (I have a windows machine with acrobat, but when I > need to view a pdf I move to my FreeBSD machine so I can use kpdf) > > kpdf is a part of kdegraphics, which is in ports as: > /usr/ports/graphics/kdegraphics3 > > I'd call this your best bet because you use KDE already. > > >