Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:08:54 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <m230761@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@PlexusCom.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Message-ID: <328AEFB6.2937@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> References: <199611132146.QAA24815@chai.plexuscom.com>
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Bakul Shah wrote: > > But I want to point out that adobe's acrobat reader for linux works > fine on freebsd-2.2 provided you have linux emulation and have > installed linux shared libs. It is *far superior* to xpdf-0.5 and > gv-2.7.6 when it comes to image quality, letter quality (thanks to > anti-aliasing), font support, letter spacing and rendering speed. > It also has some very useful features (such as a full-screen mode, > ability to launch/talk with a web browser etc., use bookmarks and > links within the documents as well as web-links etc). > There are great binaries that are available for Linux but not for FreeBSD (AsWedit,Java Compilers, and all the commercial stuff) and it is nice to have'm working under FreeBSD, and someone wanting to move from Linux to FreeBSD would really appreciate running their things on FreeBSD...but IMHO native ports always have precedence over Linux´s binaries. I believe all good software should be made available for FreeBSD natively: we shouldn´t encourage Linux´s development! (I don´t have anything against LINUX..I only hate Microsoft 8*) ) So. YES please port xpdf. Pedro.
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