From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 21:55:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBDD16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:55:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED8A43D4C for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:55:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (zgzuvq@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAOLtlEu099212 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:55:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iAOLtl56099211; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:55:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:55:47 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200411242155.iAOLtl56099211@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20041124195052.GA2391@lobo.homeunix.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-amd64 User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.10-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: acroread on the amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:55:51 -0000 Ernst W. Winter wrote: > Sorry I posted this to you, but for the benefit to others I would > suggest to compile "xpf" or "gpdf" and "gv" as I never used the > Acrobat reader and had no need for it. I found those other ones done > a job well even here now on a AMD64. Acroread is a _lot_ faster than those, especially with anti-aliasing enabled. I've had a complex document (containing lots of detailed maps and graphics) which gv took more than two minutes to render, while Acroread took 10 seconds. Also, I've had several cases where gv etc. did not render a document properly, most of the time it had to do with overlapping elements which were rendered in the wrong order. Acroread has never any such problems. For those reasons I use Acroread most of the time, if possible. (The above are just my observations. YMMV.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. > Can the denizens of this group enlighten me about what the > advantages of Python are, versus Perl ? "python" is more likely to pass unharmed through your spelling checker than "perl". -- An unknown poster and Fredrik Lundh